...and Seattle dives further into its collective navel-gazing self-worship of privileged white culture. Meh, the Stranger.

Glad to see the Stranger devoting an issue that touches on my professional life and personal interests. I look forward to reading through the issues. Thanks for the breakdown, Leilani!

@1: It says an awful lot about your prejudices that you assume geeks can only be white and privileged. Crawl out of the basement and walk around the Convention Center starting tomorrow (when Emerald City Comic Con opens) and learn something. There are plenty of events starting soon and throughout the summer which might teach you something, assuming you are not more interested in preserving your preconceptions.

give me a break @2 you all pay yourself on the back every time a comic movie has a woman in it. I'm quite social thank you.

here's some data @2:

"Also, while the US demographic is currently 61% white, 18% Latino, 13% black, 5% Asian, the entire comics market is 69% white, 12% Latino, 10% African-American and 8% Asian and the comic shop demographic is 71% white, 13% Latino, 14% black and 5% Asian (over 100% by rounding)."

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/10/20/63-of-comics-bought-by-men-37-by-women/

Unless the world is 70% white and 65% male than white males are quite over-represented.

Also there has been extensive reporting on the sexualization and harassment of women participants in this community, not to mention #gamergate. I have "geek" women friends who love the art and science but hate the community. Perhaps you'll see my perspective differently if you opened up to the truth and stopped being so defensive.

https://thegeekanthropologist.com/2015/06/19/the-character-of-sexual-harassment-at-cons/

I cannot possibly cringe hard enough. In what planet is geek defined solely as someone who DIYs a Cosplay? A trip to Goodwill and a foamstore and now, you're not a barista you're a "geek". I hate to say it, but Bill Maher, who I despise, was right about Stan Lee.

@1/4:

The fact that you seem to believe most comic-cons nowadays, including ECCC, still cater mainly to purveyors of print comics just shows how completely clueless and out of touch you are with what's happening today. Go back to arguing with the other neckbeards on aintitcoolnews.com and furtively masturbating to old Rob Liefeld splash pages in your mom's dark, dark basement, Herbert.

WOW, Jen Vaughn --

NICE (Illustration) Work!