The Four Color Media Monitor

The Tacoma News-Tribune announced that a comics store that was emphasizing LGBT ideology is closing down:

Beloved comic book store Destiny City Comics in Tacoma will be closing its doors at the end of February after its rent has increased “exponentially,” one owner told The News Tribune this week.

Located next to King’s Books at 218 St. Helens Ave., the shop is advertised as “Tacoma’s Unapologetically Black and LGBTQ+ Friendly comic shop.” On Wednesday, shelves upon shelves of novels, graphic novels, comics, art and toys filled the walls.

Matt Nebeker owns the shop with his wife Stephanie Hagan and is known colloquially by his professional wrestling name “ETHAN HD.” Nebeker said due to rent increases the shop close Feb. 28 after more than 10 years in operation.

Well I'm sorry it got expensive to maintain the shop. But what's the big deal about LGBTQ+ among leftists like these I'll never know, and with Donald Trump's re-election (in which he won a considerable number of Black voters), it should be clear it's not appealing to the masses. I get the feeling the productions meant to appeal to Black consumers at this store don't expand beyond the superficial, and it wouldn't be surprising if it turned out they don't have anything emphasizing the history and cultures of African countries like Kenya, Cameroon and Ghana.

Nebeker said he and his wife reached out to the original owners to buy Destiny City Comics “because we wanted to keep that going and be that conduit in the community for local artists and creators and people to find comics outside the beaten path of Marvel and DC.”

I'll give them this: what they say about the Big Two in this day and age figures. But that's because they too went down the dreadful path of wokeness long ago, and at this point, it's clear it isn't improving their fortunes.

“We’ve been there for parents who find out their child is trans or queer and [are] coming in to get literature on that, and kind of go on this adventure together,” he said. “[We’ve] seen people going through name changes, going through hormonal changes, staying up to date on what their pronouns are and new names and things like that. Getting to see people over time become their authentic self and be a part of their journey, even if you’re only seeing them like, once a month or every other month, that’s very cool.”

As someone who is Black and biracial, Nebeker said he wanted to stock books by authors of color that didn’t just touch on difficult topics like racism.

“If you’re a young Black kid, not every Black story you read needs to be about, like Frederick Douglas or John Lewis’s march. Those books are important,” he said. “But you know, having graphic novels like Colin Kaepernick’s, where it’s just being young and successful, having books by Miles Morales, where you just get to see yourself as a yearling, those are equally important.”

Here's another article where somebody makes it sound like it's such a big deal that a POC creation be wearing a Spidey suit, but not whether a merit-based story's been produced that everybody can enjoy. And as the above suggests, the store seems to have been intended to pander to people who wanted affirmation for their identity politics more than entertainment value. Does that make sense? Not really, and is definitely different from what things were like decades before. The problem with Morales' stories is that they were developed as little more than a form of social justice pandering, and that's worn very thin too by now.

An important query to be raised here is whether it's healthy to despise being born man or woman. That's what's appalling about all this "transgender" propaganda, because it totally obscures whether the child should be lectured to take up pretending they're the opposite sex. Most of which looks like it'll hopefully fade in time, though already serious damage has been done.

It's not great if a comics store closes, but one must wonder what the big deal is about a store that seems to have built its whole reputation on identity politics. If there was no clear emphasis on merit at the specialty store, then doesn't that kind of explain why their sales eventually faded?

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