SkonOfVulcan

June 3, 2012 7:30 am I don't see a paradox here. Characters who represent diversity can be brought in as "supporting cast" for Supes, Bats, Wonder Woman and Hal Jordan. Another point: Perhaps there is actually no contradiction in the first place, because comicbook-readers aren't entirely honest at opinion polls. I.e. it could very well be the case that people say in a poll that they want gay, lesbian, etc. characters because they don't want to appear homophobic or because they feel obliged to political correctness, but actually, they don't care and they simply want to read entertaining superhero stories and not socio-political commentaries. Another possibility is that readers who want more diversity in characters make themselves heard (in polls, fora, etc.) while the tacit majority just wants conventional superhero stories. I don't know what is true, but you can't derive a paradox from the data mentioned in the article.