Quote Originally Posted by suzene View Post
That's a complaint that's made about most superhero teams coming out of the Big Two, yeah -- you get the occasional nod to racial/religious/sexual/gender diversity, but it is an overwhelmingly a genre populated by white, straight characters because so many of the creative teams are straight, white men who are writing characters they can relate to. And a lot of the attempts writers do make at diversity fall down flat in the details. For example, even as recently as the Chaos War: AF one-shot, we still have Shaman being referred to as Sarcee, which is actually an insult. And even then, these new characters wind up being the first ones on the chopping block when the next writers to come along decide they need easy angst.

One of the reasons I liked DC before they had an unfortunate spate of killing off minority characters was because Didio really put his weight behind Blue Beetle and Manhunter, two books with well-written, diverse casts that the EiC championed even though they didn't have stellar sales.
Unfortunately, DC seems to go through this phase of creating minority characters and killing them then.