I actually like the suits and ties because it was in a book with some actual interest in doing school stuff. But that's over and we're still using the black and yellow as an excuse for characters to yell "YOU'RE CHILDREN WRRRYYYYYYYYY" at characters who've been around for over a decade.
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate
Naw, I think design has a part to play. I still lean heavily on who writers want to push. Example i give is drop! I though to myself it's a friggin floating blob...???? Yet he was crossed over into like three different books that I'm aware of. Why a writer or two was insistent on using him. Surely Tag, Synch, or even Bedlam can be written to be badass characters, hell isn't that why writers are paid. Wolverine started off as a half pint, crazed midget with claws that talked stuff but caught hands on many occasions. Yet here we are with him believed to be the lifeblood of the X-Men.
End of the day there's no excuse for this question to have to be ask in 2019.
This problem can be easily solved by having more cartoons.
I just don't think the people who actually spend money on comic books has changed enough. The counter argument being "well, if they don't see something that interests them, why would they start buying?" The counter to that is -- why would Marvel continue to risk guaranteed sales for maybe sales?
I say "continue to" because they have thrown out some new things, and they haven't done particularly well in many cases. Wolverine and Cyclops have been dead a while now, and the X-Men have been focused almost exclusively on stories about Kitty and Jeen/Jean. I can't recall that sales have been this low since the 1960's, though correct me if I'm wrong. Iceman solos sales aren't much to write home about, either. Black Panther and Crew was cancelled due to lack of interest, from what I've read. In short, these attempts at diversity (actually, I wouldn't necessarily call it diversity, rather a change from the status quo) have flopped, it would appear.
The films are a far better platform to take those risks, imo, as far as being likely to reap rewards.
Another option, if they want people to even give a book a chance, is to lower the bloody prices. Keep 3.99 for the top sellers, and drop satellites and satellite character solos to 2.99.
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I think you may have misconstrued some of what I was trying to say.-.-
Comics are overpriced. If you expect someone to spend 3.99 a month (sometimes bi-monthly) there better be a market for it. Clearly, there was no market for BP&Crew, though the BP series sells a respectable 30k.
Pushing Cyclops and Wolverine out (and I was tired of reading about them, too) then making the teams all female led, combined with poor writing that turned team books into solos about Kitty and Jean and utilizing almost none of the team... flopped. Red was the best of them, but even that book, that started out well, dipped into the same thing.
I have no clue why they keep publishing Iceman, tbh. I've read someone saying that it does well digitally -- I expect that can also be said for other series that have been cancelled, though, so I don't know why that book would be the exception.
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“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If I love you, I have to make you conscious of what you don’t see.”
~James Baldwin
They need to go back to some olden tactics and just have the minor characters be back stories in the main books. Also good luck trying to get the costs of books down to $3 or less especially with the sales books are making these days.
TV shows and cartoons should be ads for the books but for some reason Marvel/Disney haven't figured this out yet even though Japan has ages ago. I don't know how they struggle to put 12 episodes of a Black Panther cartoon a year when Shonen Jump can put out 39 - 50 of their Avengers Academy/New X-Men anime easily.