I'd be more excited if we started seeing some more female creators, more lesbian and gay creators, a few trans characters who aren't sequestered into Vertigo comics, maybe even a female to male character for once. I'd be more excited if artists were consistent about She-Hulk's muscles (one will draw her with a strongwoman physique, while the cover artist makes her tall and slender), especially if they stuck with a believably beefy body. I'd be more excited if artists started including more male characters with costumes as revealing as those of the female characters (damn near everyone wears skin tight clothing, so that's nothing new). I'd be more excited if Dust (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_%28comics%29) wasn't a horrible stereotype whose hijab somehow clings to her bosom like spandex.
I was excited about Young Avengers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Avengers), because it had two attractive young men in a relationship together. Granted, it would be better if it wasn't probably related to stereotypes of how young gay men present themselves...
One of the things i do when i create a superhero type character is devise the concept first. I say to myself, i want this power, and that power, and this sort of personality. After that, i decide on sex, gender identity, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality, religion... i wish more creators would do that. Far too many characters are based on someone thinking something along the lines of "what powers would a superhero of such-and-such group have"; and then you wind up with an Afghani heroine who transforms into sand, or a Canadian hero named Puck (Canadians all love hockey, right? :P)
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I'd be more excited if we started seeing some more female creators, more lesbian and gay creators, a few trans characters who aren't sequestered into Vertigo comics, maybe even a female to male character for once. I'd be more excited if artists were consistent about She-Hulk's muscles (one will draw her with a strongwoman physique, while the cover artist makes her tall and slender), especially if they stuck with a believably beefy body. I'd be more excited if artists started including more male characters with costumes as revealing as those of the female characters (damn near everyone wears skin tight clothing, so that's nothing new). I'd be more excited if Dust (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_%28comics%29) wasn't a horrible stereotype whose hijab somehow clings to her bosom like spandex.
I was excited about Young Avengers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Avengers), because it had two attractive young men in a relationship together. Granted, it would be better if it wasn't probably related to stereotypes of how young gay men present themselves...
One of the things i do when i create a superhero type character is devise the concept first. I say to myself, i want this power, and that power, and this sort of personality. After that, i decide on sex, gender identity, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality, religion... i wish more creators would do that. Far too many characters are based on someone thinking something along the lines of "what powers would a superhero of such-and-such group have"; and then you wind up with an Afghani heroine who transforms into sand, or a Canadian hero named Puck (Canadians all love hockey, right? :P)