I'm currently part way through the script for Walking Wounded #3 and once again my count of female characters is low. In fact it's zero.
This is not through misogyny but rather because World War 2 stories have a tendency towards being male-dominated. Obviously there are exceptions, such as Charlotte Gray and Enigma to name but two, but the comics that we're to a certain degree pastiching weren't very interested in appealing to girls anyway, nor even appealing to boys' interest in girls.
So is Massacre For Boys just for boys? Well, hopefully not but I am aware that most of the readers are men. Indeed I did feel this was pretty much how comic audiences are made up anyway but at the Thing I did see a lot of girls, virtually all of whom weren't interested in our work.
However, interestingly we did get one female customer pop over to pick up Walking Wounded #2. She'd won the first issue in last year's "guess the number of comics and keep them" competition and had liked it enough to remember it for 365 days then pop back for seconds.
So Walking Wounded is a hard sell to the female audience but it's not necessarily because they won't like it but more because it doesn't seem to be for them. I guess this is something to live with for now, as Walking Wounded is what it is, but the issue is worth revisiting for future projects.
Oh, and there will be at least one major female character coming into Walking Wounded eventually....
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