Moving forward

It seems that as society moves forward things stay stagnant in some sort of 1950's McCarthy time warp. As more and more diversity permeates our outside lives, it is funny how things like comics still do not reflect it.

For example, Latino's and Asian Americans are some of the fastest growing populations in the U.S. but comics have little or no prominent superheros from these cultures. Even as African Americans have continued to contribute to American society, I bet less than 1% of the total hero population at the "Big Two" have prominent Black Superheros. Even worse is the gay representation.

Even when these ideas and cultures are introduced they fade away as quickly as a new Kevin Costner film. (And that is pretty quick. I mean, really, have you seen some of his recent trash?)

As progressive people who continually evolve ideas and societal norms I would just once, like to see some real guts from a comic book company and commit to making diverse comic characters work. Perminently. Maybe we all will learn something.

Then again, if not, I probably will just keep reading anyway.