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MARVEL after scandal forced to remove cover 15-year-old girl

Last week, the Network has published a new version of the cover of MARVEL comics “Invincible Iron man” (the Invincible Iron Man), the latest issue which goes on sale in November. The cover artwork was created by artist J. Scott Campbell in a revealing outfit was a picture of black girl Riri Williams – she replaced Tony stark in the post Iron man.

MARVEL after scandal forced to remove cover 15-year-old girl

New Iron man, which is now in the comic book universe MARVEL has become a 15-year-old black girl Riri Williams, attracted the attention of the public quite Frank appearance. On the cover of a future graphic novel, the main character appears to the reader in a fitted top, through which you could see the impressive size of the breast. This point attracted the attention of the Internet community is against this vision of the adolescents were not only well-known media person, but also ordinary users.

Author Stephanie Humphrey in his Twitter wrote:This is how people see 15-year-old black girls?”
In her opinion, the presented version covers the worst of all possible options of advertising a new comic book. Her message quickly got to the tops of Twitter – it has gained 1500 1800 retweets and likes.

Poster of comic book publisher MARVEL

Another writer – T. Franklin – also tweeted a critical comment:I really like how “sexualitywhat” children in the comics. But, you know, brown girls grow up very quickly, so everything is fine. End sarcasm”.
In just a few hours on social networks real scandal. Gradually involved in it were and artist J. Scott Campbell, drew a new version of the cover for Iron man comics. He tried to argue the critics, explaining that his vision Riri Williams not much different from the vision MARVEL. In support of his opinion he attached to the message original version of the cover. The next day, after an unexpected meeting, publisher MARVEL decided not to use the second version of the cover for advertising of comics.

The first version of the cover of the comic book “Invincible Iron man”

Riri Williams, who was presented to the fans of MARVEL comics in the spring of 2016, is studying at mit. The girl is only 15, but in this age, in the dormitory, she was able to assemble the working model of the suit Tony stark. Guide MARVEL emphasizes that the emergence of Riri Williams does not mean that Tony stark will forever be gone from the comics.

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