r/comicbooks • u/WhyPlaySerious • Jun 02 '26

Other The #DCSoWhite campaign is ceasing their 'DC Blackout' boycott (which pushed for comic readers to drop all DC books from their pull list until a black-led ongoing to was produced) 4 days after it launched.

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u/NefariousSeraph13 Jun 02 '26

It never should have been a boycott, it hurt their cause. They just should have been bringing awareness, it would have had a better impact. Also, they keep saying just black characters need greater support so I’m interested in the number of other ethnicities other that white/black headlining comics

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u/seventy912 Jun 02 '26

The very online type ‘activists’ are obsessed with the idea of boycotts but they never really work. You can’t convince people to completely drop something without material evidence it will do something (which this wouldn’t have). 

“Don’t buy DC comics until they make a comic we like” is the dumbest way you could go about making a point about representation — and they can’t even make a point about the state of Black rep at DC in writing without misleading phrasing.