All this, and yet Marvel is very deliberate. We know that Redjack had made the push only to be rebuffed.....? Why not let a proven talent, that actually appreciated the source material get a chance? Why were people that they allowed to touch the book even consider
How does ANY Of that benefit T'Challa? The name on the book.
These were NOT Storm books.
Folks have tried to end that many times but we get mess like we saw in Marvel Voices acting like it still exist.
Notice all these folks we saw get introduced have NOT been seen since those books ended. If it was REALLY about Wakanda and them-we would still be seeing them.
Spider-Boy got an ongoing and he came out of nowhere.
How many Spider folks have gotten something?
Dreamer from Supergirl has done MORE than Tosin including leading a BOOK.
I was being sarcastic with that post. (my bad, I should have indicated as such)
As far as Spider-boy goes...he's a Spider Boy. That in itself guarantees a certain amount of inbuilt popularity. Plus, the Spider fandom seems to happily latch on to every iteration that they can find which is actually a good trait to look for when introducing new IPs.
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Here is the difference-
When Priest's run came out-you only had 2 trades of that run until all of it came out around the 2016.
Hudlin's run was the FIRST Black Panther run to be collected in trades.
When you get to Coates mess-not only did we get his trades. We also saw that run placed in more stores than the previous ones including the Kirby one.
When I go to Office Depot-guess whose trades I saw in the store from Marvel? BLACK PANTHER by Coates volume 1.
When I go to Barnes and Nobles-excluding New 52 Static, Spawn and Miles Morales-you would be hard pressed to find a black lead trade in those stores.
When I go to the public library at mine-guess who trades got checked out to death, stolen and barely replaced? Hudlin's run. In fact excluding Coates run-you don't have TONS of copies to check out.
When you go to comixology or Kindle-the ONLY one I could read with my coloxolgy Unlimited account is the last 8 years. Can't do that with the previous ones aside from when all things Panther was free after Boseman's death.
So most folks who are JUST now reading Black Panther are starting with Coates. In fact it will be the same case with almost everyone else-folks will access the most RECENT material.
So guess what happens-a TON of folks read it and many tend to NOT comeback for volumes 2 and beyond.
On Amazon with comixology you can read all BUT ONE of the Coates & all of Riley & Ewing runs for free. You can't do that with Priest (Only the first one you can) or Hudlin.
I really don't know.
It's something Marvel is being deliberate about. They simply want "literary writers" to work on the main BP book for whatever reason.
The problem is that some of these guys have no knowledge of the character or simply don't care about the character and the existing lore.
Part of the reason you see that is because some of those folks can get your book in places and coverage that it might not get.
For regular folks they are not really going to notice the cosmetic differences.
I'll use the Kirkus Review-who NORMALLY ignores all things comics and OGNS including trades. Now put a Kami Garcia, Christine Gonzales, Gene Yung, Coates and Jason Reynolds.
Guess what gets covered. In Marvel's case the Jason Reynolds and Justin Reynolds Miles books.
Those names also get books ordered by schools and in fact gets them included in the books we are allowed to order (and not have to pay out of a teacher's pocket).
The issue beyond what we have seen with Panther and Miles Morales Thor writer. The Miles Morales Thor writer writes to teens and kids. NOT adult comic book readers.
I know that writer from owning his books and his writing didn't bother me but to adults it became an issue.
This is more about using those folks to promote your stuff and I would SUSPECT all the T'Challa taking backseats to everyone plays into that.
We got a Wakanda show coming-could all those leeches be in it?
Yeah the game takes a lot of the recent lore with the characters like Storm's adventures in X-Men Red as the Regent of Sol and Magneto constantly referencing Krakoa to the point of having the Krakoan word for M on his cape. Its really fun, especially how they are constructing scenarios within the game lore like Magneto and Scarlet Witch teaming up to gather mutants from across the multiverse and then raising a mutant army to liberate Wanda's world from a demon invasion in their team-up bio.
So its going to be fun seeing the little stories they have cooked up for BP in this setting.