Marvel comics really hate your average white male
Thor = white male, now white female
Cap = white male, now black male
Iron Man = white male, now black female
Wolverine = white male, now white female
I think Hawkeyes is the only Originsl left unchanged and he seems to be being phased out in favour of the young avenger female Hawkeye.
Thor: Still a white male, name passed to new wielder of Mjolnir - October 2014
Cap: still a white male, passed on to another white male, passed back to the first white male, passed on to a black male (August 2014), still used by the original white male
Iron Man: Tony Stark is still a white male, Riri Williams is a black female
Wolverine: Wolverine is a dead white male, his clone daughter is a white female - November 2015.
It's not like it happened overnight, or you've cared enough to post about it during the last 2 years
I'm down with representing diversity but have all white makes being whipped off the face of the earth?
I'm having a hard time keeping a straight face imagining that white males are under-represented in Marvel comics
I'm all for diversity as well which is why this makes me so sad, they feel the need to change established Heroes gender/race rather than come up with new and original Heroes of different gender/race to fill the void.
The lack of creativity and originality in comics (and to some extent movies) when it comes to heroes of different gender/race is really poor!
Thor - They already had a strong potential female lead hero in Valkyrie, why not give her a comic of her own and leave Thor alone...
Cap - This wasn't actually a bad idea, in the context of the story but still why not have a new black male hero in the same vein as Cap, maybe he could be trained by Cap and so on...
Iron Man - Yeah this is just stupid...
Wolverine - I'm not up to date with this one, is the new female Wolverine an actual replacement or just running along side?
Isn't Thor on it's 6th or 7th run? I don't think it's ever been a real smash without tying into films. Original Thor still exists by the way, he just can't wield Mjolnir because (Marvel does terrible crossovers) reasons.
I'm confused with your objection - isn't the new guy Sam Wilson, who was a new black male hero who was trained by Cap and so on? Did you have the same concerns when Bucky took over? The fact that OG Cap's new comic is called Steve Rogers: Captain America seems to make it tough to get upset about this one?
Iron Man - not stupid, because an old man bankrolling a teen into becoming a hero can be awesome - see Batman Beyond. Tony still exists and still makes suits. He's just got someone else to fly them (see War Machine, Pepper Potts, Iron Legion, etc)
Wolverine is dead again - I believe that's now so many times that they had to make up new numbers. X-23 has took over - she's a clone of Wolverine and has been around since 2004. There's no point caring anyway, unless Marvel gets some deal in place with Fox, they are going to kill off all the X-Men titles anyway (see Fantastic Four)
So, 1 new character, 3 out of 4 have direct ties to the original character, 3 out of 4 original characters still exist, no actual changes to race/gender.
Is Rebirth better than the New 52 stuff...especially where Batman is concerned?
Depends why you didn't like New 52 Batman? Rebirth is excellent so far, but we've not even seen all the first issues yet.
