During the “Being Non-Compliant” panel it was said "our toys won't be taken away". But isn't that already happening? We lost Thor. We lost Cap. Sooner or later Miles will replace Peter. Avengers goes all female. I mean, it feels like all my favorites are being slowly chipped away and replaced. What comics am I supposed to read soon?

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I literally can’t tell if you’re kidding. 

You know you can still read those books, right? 

Let’s look at movies: women comprise 50% (some put it higher, actually) of the ticket-buying public but we’re only 12% of the protagonists. You’re about as likely (4%) to see a woman FROM ANOTHER PLANET onscreen as you are a Latina or an Asian woman. Have women stopped going to movies?  Nope. 

You too can learn to cross-identify.  The rest of us have.  And don’t make the slippery slope argument to me because we’ve made *progress* over the last two years when we are still nowhere near parity.  

(Moreover, if you think the changes you lamented above are permanent, Zelda Fitzgerald would love to have you for a son.)

It’s gonna be okay, man.  Let yourself enjoy Miles Morales.  It’s a hell of a fine book. 

And when you get sad, remember you still have the United States Congress. And 43 US Presidents. And Wal-Mart.