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Well, the numbers are bad and I should feel bad. A bunch of new and returning series were out this week - nine number ones! Five of those had some gender diversity, but the numbers are grim. I got a couple books I had been thinking of dropping, so that’s on me.

But enough bad news, what’s good?

• Margaret Atwood has a new book out because I guess she’s tired of kicking ass in prose and on TV. Excited to see where War Bears goes.
• Jason Aaron’s run on Avengers has begun its second arc and somebody found some ladies to work on it! I don’t think he noticed my complaints, but Jason if you did, have Sara Pichelli draw me into a crowd scene!
• The first Sandman spin-off/extension/zombie series of serieses kicks off today with Bilquis Evely on art for The Dreaming, and fans of American Gods are probably super confused. (The timeline doesn’t work out.)
• Two more of Bendis’ Jinxworld books are out and both have women colorists. Brian seems like such a nice guy, and I’d love to see him use his new DC imprint to spotlight some more women. 

But it’s not all good:

• Books that are fundamentally about women keep getting made by all-male teams: Ant-Man & the Wasp, Doctor Aphra and Paper Girls are all great books, but there really ought to be a lady somewhere on the team one of these days.
• Marvel, the publisher I buy the most from, only managed a gender diverse team on one of the ten books I bought this week. Image went 0 for 4. Aftershock who advertises their diversity on the back of their books, 0 for 2. It’s important to remember that isn’t all of the books that came out, but look at my pull list for yourself - what am I missing?


See you next week!

This Week's Books

• Ant-Man & the Wasp #5 - (0+4)
• Asgardians of the Galaxy #1 - (0+4)
• Avengers #7 - (2+3) 👍
• Batman #54 - (0+4)
• Border Town #1 - (1+3) 👍
• Bully Wars #1 - (0+4)
• Captain America #3 - (0+5)
• Cover #1 - (1+3) 👍
• Dark Ark #10 - (0+3)
• Deadpool #4 - (0+4)
• The Dreaming #1 - (1+3) 👍
• Immortal Hulk #5 - (0+5)
• James Bond Origin #1 - (0+3)
• The Last Siege #4 - (0+4)
• Leviathan #2 - (0+4)
• The Long Con #2 - (3+2) 👍
• Paper Girls #24 - (0+4)
• Pestilence: A Story of Satan #4 - (0+6)
• Quicksilver: No Surrender #5 - (0+4)
• Silver Surfer Annual #1 - (0+4)
• Star Wars #53 - (0+4)
• Star Wars: Doctor Aphra Annual #2 - (0+3)
• The Unexpected #4 - (0+6)
• United States of Murder Inc. #1 - (1+3) 👍
• Vampironica #3 - (1+2) 👍
• War Bears #1 - (1+1) 👍

Titles in bold are new #1s and a 👍 indicates a book with a least one non-cis-male creator. Numbers in parentheses are the total non-cis-male and total cis-male creators.

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