who dares utter queen jones' name in a topic about losers
who dares utter queen jones' name in a topic about losers
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate
As I stated before, if a person doesn't care about a character's life, they're not going to care about their death.
Take Endgame for example. Do you think that the writers killed Tony and Natasha because they hated them? they didn't just do it for shock value either.
Their deaths brought far more viewers than nobodies or unpopular characters would.
I wouldn't support this idea, but I would support a story where Marvel characters band together to clear out pieces of dead wood from a fire or flood zone and then help the locals rebuild their homes and plant new foliage.
"I should describe my known nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and disassociated groups; a) love of the strange and the fantastic, b) love of abstract truth and scientific logic, c) love of the ancient and the permanent. Sundry combinations of these strains will probably account for my...odd tastes, and eccentricities."
Frankly, I wish Marvel writers had a quota of using obscure D list or lower characters. Maybe for every 18 issues, they had to include one or two obscure characters.
Writers these days keep to the same A, B and C listers, or their pet characters, and no others. I'm hard pressed to think of a writer who uses anyone too obscure without immediately killing them, and forcing a writer out of their typical rut can produce some good stories.
Christopher Priest, for example, was reluctant to write Black Panther (for a host of reasons, mind). But he did some research, committed himself like a damn professional, and gave us the best T'Challa before or since.
FYI- Black Knight, Solo, Slapstick, Prowler and many others had solos or minis before. So it's not like they were tossing out random shots to guys who never had them before.
And the folks who scream that they DON'T want them around-DON'T support comic book stores. Yet feel entitled to throw fits about books that HAPPEN to feature certain demographics.The people who scream the loudest don't buy the books when they come out.
Funny this is RARELY said about a book that does NOT have a POC in it.Maybe the problem is there aren't enough people to support the books you're clamoring for
It's KUDOS when Plastic Man or Mr Miracle gets a shot.
Generation X says HI.Its a problem that I've noticed a lot over in the X-men side of things with the teen/student teams. Fans call for a book featuring the New X-men...Marvel responds with a bunch of characters no one wants and the fans are quite understandably not pleased. Rather than address the issue, Marvel shrugs it off and goes "Guess they don't want the book after all".
According to WHO?There aren't enough "new and diverse" readers coming in and replacing them.
Betty Boop, Mighty Mouse, Elvira, Barbarella, Care Bears & Shaft got books that NO ONE asked for.
We had a book called Cellies. A book about a CELL PHONE STORE with a black guy. The merger of Lion Forge & Omini Press ended it.
After Shock, Ahoy, Titan, Image, Dark Horse and others have tossed out books with POC as lead NONSTOP. As ongoings and minis.
Relay, Bitter Root, Black, Freeze, Burnouts, Source, The Long Con, Stronghold, Wicked & Divine, Farmhands, Livewire & others had POC as leads.
Guess what I did NOT see with them? A long line of complaints or attacks on creators. Funny Marvel & DC are the only ones that deals with it.
Marvel's JOB is to try new stuff. That includes DIVERSE stuff. Because what you don't do SOMEONE else will. If it fails, it fails but you need to TRY.
No, not really.
Micky Mouse is the face of Disney. And part of an entirely different medium and genre with its own set of rules and tropes. The comparison doesn't work.
Spider-Man (any of them) is one of many parts of the larger universe.
On top of that, Marvel killing off Peter Parker would be a cheap marketing thing. He'd be gone for a few months the we'd get something stupid like "Return of Peter Parker: a 6 part mini-series" turning into a new #1 of one of the Spider-Man books. There would be no question about whether or not Peter would be back, just how dumb his method of not being dead would be.
And just to add, no one mentioned a conspiracy. Just pointing out that crappy "They don't sell" is an invalid argument commonly used by those gator losers.
Last edited by scourge; 09-14-2019 at 10:36 PM.
Spider-Man already died and was gone for like 16 months.
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate