If you really want to explore this topic you should consider why Storm and Bishop did and the others didn’t. What differentiates them?
“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
This thread has asked and answered those questions. Either you didn’t read them, or you decided your answer was better. The more pressing concern is still whether or not black male mutants deserve more love and attention in the X-men. It’s clear that you don’t think any of them are/were any good. You don’t see the importance of meaningful representation for black males and you aren’t a person that actively searches and supports it. Given your stance in this thread (which is a black male mutant appreciation thread in essence) and your inability to see value in ANY of the aforementioned black male mutants, what exactly are you doing here? And what value did you truly expect to bring with your “anti black male” Tourette syndrome?
Someone asked about the "design and impact" of the characters and then when another user says they weren't that good you jump on their case. Geez.
"Cable was right!"
That’s simply because no one wrote them or wrote them well enough to get established.
Instead of making new characters, bring on:
Windshear from Alpha Flight
Bedlam Brothers as a duo like AOA instead of 616 enemies.
Derrick Beacon from Generation X
Pathway and Lightbright for ladies of color.
All existing black mutants.
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Is that really true? Did someone write Glob or Armor well enough that they are pushing them now? Did someone write Gwenpool good enough that they are pushing her now? Are fans clamoring for that Star mini series?
Could the decision makers be out of touch with Market? Could old bad beliefs be keeping back characters like remember thay Disney didn't put Black Panther, Captain Marvel and Black Widow movie because of one executive beliefs. And the current X-Office doesn't believe in the viability of teen books for example. To think that something the characters are doing alone is wrong imo the factors outside of comics as well.
And that's because
All those characters, including Synch, were introduced in the 90s when books were being churned out faster than quality could afford. A new character needed to have an adversarial personality in order to stand out, which explains the relative success of Monet St. Croix, and to a certain extent Bishop himself.
Lol, good retort! This mentality is at the very core of why we are even considering the OP question. I get you previous post point. Yes, Hickman had done cool things with black male characters. I even appreciate what he was doing with Nightmask, also from his Avengers run. I see that he brought Synch back, but the frustration comes in when you see how much time goes into to establishing the usual suspects cutting the opportunity to do the same meticulous work to bring out second tier players who need the help. That's all.
Gwenpool had a good run with Hastings writing her. She was born out of a variant cover LOL
Gonna say she is a example of Marvel investing ona new character, wha tif x-offcie invested this way on the poc characters from x-men.
I think armor, quentin, Glob are mostly used because of their creators. At least armor is a poc, but the rest are white and always given many chances on books.
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