Just a bit of interest, but out of all the people on teams and who are "heroes" 46 are female and 39 are male. The best part? All of it is entirely based on chance. There's this awesome thing online called "Virtual D&D Dice" and I just pick which will be which (odds for boys, evens for girls, or vice versa) and let fate decide. I do it in batches, randomly.
I come up with teams first, then powers, then codenames (if I can think of any. Oof. codenames are the WORST!), and then I chose names. And then (depending upon how productive I'm feeling), I give out eye color, hair, height, and any other distinctive things.
Mostly I think this is a random bit of curiosity considering all the current rage over DC's universe reboot and lack of females and queer characters. Most of my characters are bisexual or straight up gay, and I have a couple of asexuals thrown in there as well. As for persons of color, well. I can think of a couple that are, but I'm still pounding out my characters past what was mentioned above. A lot of that work is being done through the Spotlight Fridays (because I'm a clever writer and it makes me do stuff). Granted, these are books and not comic books so there is very little that will make their skin tone obvious. Maybe it's because I'm female (and disabled) that makes the ratio of boys to girls as heroes amusing to me, but as a writer I think it's important to have people that everyone can identify with.
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