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Originally Posted by Byrnes

Here is the way I see it. Comics cost $4-5 a book these days. This stuff isn't for kids at that price, it's for 30-50 year old's who grew up on this stuff in the 70's-90's. If I pick up a book today to read something it's 10 words a page and I have no idea who is who anymore. That does not interest me. If i'm an old salty bastard then so be it, i'll save my money and read the old stuff. Nobody can say I didn't try the new stuff. I want Steve Rogers to be Capt America, not another person (Bucky/Falcon), not another hidden agenda (hydra) that they try to come up with.

If you're claiming that the majority of the comics fanbase is 30-50 men, I'd be interested to see your sources for that. Even if it were true, it is a poor business model that panders to an ageing, shrinking demographic at the expense of newer ones.
Not to mention that according to the industry, the fastest growing comic demographic in recent times is 17-33 year old women, and others claim 45% of comic fans are already women.

None of that has anything to do with political correctness, though. You're complaining comics aren't the same now as they were when you were growing up, fair enough. But they weren't the same then as they were 30 years before that, either. Stories change to reflect the changes in the society that spawns them, as old stigmas and prejudice fall away the stories change to reflect that. It isn't some kind of political bias, it is popular culture reflecting the society that spawns it.