ConnEr Kent flies. ConnOr Hawke has a bow. Batman's kid is named DamiAn.
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THE SIGNAL (Duke Thomas) is DC's secret shonen protagonist so I made him a fandom wiki
also, check out "The Signal Tape" a Duke Thomas fan project.
currently following:
- DC: Red Hood: The Hill
- Marvel: TBD
- Manga (Shonen/Seinen): One Piece, My Hero, Dandadan, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kaiju No. 8, Reincarnation of The Veteran Soldier, Oblivion Rouge, ORDEAL, The Breaker: Eternal Force
"power does not corrupt, power always reveals."
Reading List (Super behind but reading them nonetheless):
DC: Currently figuring that out
Marvel: Read above
Image: Killadelphia, Nightmare Blog
Other: The Antagonist, Something is Killing the Children, Avatar: TLAB
Manga: My Hero Academia, MHA: Vigilanties, Soul Eater: the Perfect Edition, Berserk, Hunter X Hunter, Witch Hat Atelier, Kaiju No. 8
Lot of really good choices here.
I'm gonna throw in Kate Spencer; Manhunter. DC and the fans really tried hard on that one. That book got brought back two or three times, DC gave her a backup in 'Tec (or maybe it was Batman?), now she's in Event Leviathan.......I feel like DC has gone out of their way to try and capitalize on Kate Spencer, but outside of her fairly small fanbase (who deserve a ton of credit for all the efforts made on Kate's behalf too) the audience just will not pick her up.
I think a fair amount of effort was put into Damage (Grant Emerson) too. A solo, a couple stints on the Titans, then the JSA......I don't think anyone bent over backwards trying to make that kid sell, but I do think people did try.
Sideways. Really the whole New Age line. DC tried really damn hard on that stuff, and I really enjoyed a lot of it. Shame it didn't catch on (I doubt any of us expected it to, but still, shame).
The Others. Johns introduced them in Aquaman, where they got to feature in a story or three, then they got a book of their own. Okay effort on DC's part, and I thought those characters were a ton of fun, but alas, DC didn't try hard enough.
"We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe."
~ Black Panther.
I'm convinced a big part of why Jaime Blue Beetle is still around is that amazing Cully Hamner design. He's also still the best "DC's Peter Parker" for my money.
Lorena Marquez the second post crisis Aquagirl. A smart, capable and likable superheroine who also provided much needed diversity to the Aqua man line. Unfortunately, her tenure with the Teen Titans is not fondly remembered and she hasn't been seen since Brightest Day.
Koryak, Aquaman's half-Inuit son who was also the first poc hero of the Aquaman line.
Would Jaime count? I feel his considerably large presence in other media somewhat mitigates how he's been used in the comics and tv and games easily trump comics these days.
ConnEr Kent flies. ConnOr Hawke has a bow. Batman's kid is named DamiAn.
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I'm not sure if Batwoman would fall in here.
Her first solo was quite successfull for a while, but the sales dropped eventually, and the second solo did not that well.
I agree with other in that the Jaime Blue Beetle is just not used enough for the amount of exposure he gets in other media. Why he is not a member of the Teen Titans just makes no sense. They should use him instead of just making new character no one cares about over and over.
Then again DC is pathetic at taking advantage of characters that get exposure on TV and trying to use that to build up their comic counterpart.
Kind of the opposite of what this thread was meant to be about - which characters that were given a fair shot at becoming big, but just didn't achieve it. Where DC didn't do anything wrong, but the character you like just didn't have the mass appeal needed to make it to that level.
FTR, if we're talking YJ-cartoon version of Jaime, I haven't seen season 3, but in season 2 he bears little resemblance to the Jaime I loved in his 2006 series, so I don't want to see more of that Jaime (and I even saw the show before reading the comics). Haven't read N52 Blue Beetle with Jaime, because I didn't hear good things from the fans of the older version. That's one of the things with tv or movie popularity, if the characterization or background is significantly different. If it gets ported over to the comics (like it did with John Stewart), you can sometimes end up with a new character(ization) that bears little resemblance beyond the superficial (name, powers, costume) to the old one. From DC's perspective, it only makes senses if it makes them more money - doesn't alienate more existing fans who are spending money than it draws new ones. Creatively, it can work, but probably best with characters that don't have solid foundations or large fanbases (less risk in alienation). Jaime may be one of those (I don't know), but it's sad for people who liked the old version and lose it. People think they ought to be happy because the character they liked is getting more prominence, but it's often at the expense of the things they liked about the character.
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