“…while comics tend to assiduously ignore everyone outside of their core demographic, the reverse is by no means necessarily true. Not that there are scads of tween African-American girls reading mainstream U.S. comics because, you know, there aren’t. But, as it turns out — and not surprisingly — it’s actually much easier to have affection for the product if you don’t partake. In any case, and for whatever reason, the fact remains that by far the most popular comic-booky star of the last year or so was not Superman or Batman or Wolverine, but Beyoncé Knowles…with Ciara not too far behind.”