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I agree. Add to this - that she has determined comics equal only Marvel superhero comics and DC superhero comics, not the romance magna, the graphic novels, the web comics, Sandman comics, horror comics, etc.

So, what she's not addressing is that Hollywood is skewing towards the 18-45 year old white male demographic. Occasionally it breaks away from that with Black Panther -- which got a lot of push back from the industry, because Hollywood didn't expect Black Panther to do very well and released it in a time period where box office gains don't matter that much for that reason. When it outsold films that had been released during prime movie seasons -- and garnered an Oscar nomination, Hollywood had to rethink it's game plan.

Also, it's more about cross-marketing or multi-media properties. Not all comics get the Hollywood treatment. Only those comics that can be mass merchandised. For example - we're not going to see a film of Maus or say, Paper Girls. Because you can't do action figures, amusement park rides, toys, video games, etc from those properties. And they don't appeal to that specific demographic.

Even in regards to superhero films -- the X-men films focused on Xavier, Magneto, Hugh Jackman's Wolverine...they killed off Mystique, who was naked any time she changed form. (Note Mystique is not naked in the comics.) And the Avengers focused on Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Spiderman, and Ant-Man. We didn't really get any films on the female Avengers until Captain Marvel and she wasn't considered an Avenger. The main focus of the films was on Steve Rogers, a WWII white boy vet, who became a super solider.
Which is hardly representative of the majority of comic book fans.

Shawna Kidman is making the same assumption the media makes which is that all comic book fans are white males between 18-45. That's not true. We all know that.