not at all. i did a short in the SPIDER-GEDDON mini series and I've got something in the upcoming NEW VOICES.
it's more that each editorial group is like its own kingdom and I don't have any connects in the X or Panther offices. So, unless the EiC wants me on a book, the odds of my name even coming up are pretty low.
Trust me, if they ask me on either of those characters, i would dive in.
Reggie, Dwayne and Mr. Priest did what they could do with what I think was a misguided (at best) story point that came from Claremont. I especially liked Dwayne's FF. That was fire.
The racism aspect comes when your company had only four black characters of note and, rather than actually flesh out their lives, backstories, supporting casts and heroic journies, you shoehorn a random meeting in that puts two of them together "because they're both Africans."
If Marvel's only gay characters, for instance, were Wiccan and Hulkling and one was from Vancouver and the other from the Bahamas, creating a story where they randomly meet in Guam just to make them a couple would be the sort of unconscious homophobic foundation that a lot of straight "liberals" don't realize they suffer from. Same with T'Challa and Ororo.
They were, for instance, FAR more likely to meet as adults during one of the many X and Avengers crossovers that have occurred than during T'Challa's walkabout (which also makes zero sense as Wakanda's doors were still basically closed at the time and the notion of the teenaged Prince wandering around Africa on his own is just ludicrous.)
I never liked it. I'm never going to like it. It's just how it landed on me.
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Brother MoS will have to verify, but I do believe this is the first time in Marvel history that a BP spinoff regularly outsells the main book.
Sadly, I suspect TNC will get a relaunch (possibly with a new title) so that he can "finish telling his story", despite the fact that said story is unpopular drek.
I would say yes. Priest had no spin-offs.
Hudlin didn't.
Maberry had "The Black Paris Hilton learns anger management!"
Coates' run had the most and only spin-offs and with the exception of RotBP, they were frakking horrible.
As bad as Coates was, his "woke" proteges' were worse.
This will be Coates last run, he'll get the Legacy #200 and be done.
Miss Wakanda 2019!
The story thus far...
It's my wife's birthday and now we have a newly corned Miss Universe with ties to Wakanda... OOPS I mean South Africa!
The natural is back... At least until 2020!
So not I get to here all day every day how South African women are the most beautiful on the planet and wifey has receipts!
Get Hectic!
In terms of BUSINESS it can be an issue.
Remember what happened to Robin in the 80s?
You had the Teen Titans doing commercials and ads with the Protector who looked like Robin. Because Robin's rights belong to someone else for television purposes.
Same thing with Joker and his MIA with the Legion of Doom.
Aquaman vanished from Justice League shows once that Aquaman pilot was being made on the WB/CW.
What good would it have done for Panther & Storm if you could not do that in the movies? Yeah that issue is gone but it's NOT in the comics.
I agree with Redjack-it's better to have 2 black power couples versus one.
Luke & Jessica have spawned how many books?
Peter & Mary Jane?
Clark & Lois?
Aquaman and now Mera?
No franchise issues with any of them.
T'Challa
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King of Wakanda
King of the Dead and The Champion of Bast
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