Batwoman Resignations: The Age Pattern

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As suspected, part of a larger pattern:

http://comicsbeat.com/lets-get-this-straight-dc-is-anti-marriage-not-anti-gay-marriage/

Since there's this ongoing "concern" about characters looking too old, a lot of longstanding marriages of other characters got retconned away by the Flashpoint mini-series back in 2011.

This looks to be just part of a continuing pattern. If it's not ageism on their part in itself, it's fear of the ageism lurking in the hearts of their readership (and in the case of TV and cinema spinoff projects, viewership as well).

There's a lot of reasons why I picked up Astro City...and I'm thinking this is one of them.

Comments

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Depending on the target/actual audience of the series and the temperament of the creators and/or editors, this may not be the barrier it seems to such stories.

And as mentioned before, retroactively un-marrying them is a guaranteed "dealbreaker" move that will lose a given publisher my custom. I've walked away from series - entire lines of titles - over that.

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I'm suspecting the words "Spider" and "Man" come into that category somewhere.

I agree that there's demographics in which that would not be a barrier at all. Unfortunately, DC seems to have no concept of demographics outside of 16-24 year old heterosexual males.

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You're not wrong re: that family of titles.

The age-range word from assorted meetings with retailers I'd heard about was 18-34 - quite possibly misremembered on my part - but you may be closer to the truth of the matter.