~ find someone who loves you as much as Storm fans love her ~
~ find someone who loves you as much as Storm fans love her ~
Yes Ororo could absolutely anchor a franchise. It would require a push and some good marketing and a quality creative team that doesn't want to just retread Claremont, but I do believe she has the star power to make it work.
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can, so we're the ones who have to.~Captain Marvel
To add to the OP question:
These are the franchises that would fall under the Storm umbrella(pun not intended):
1. The Crew(mostly humans)
2. The New Mutants(this time there will actually be new mutants).
3. Fallen Angels(A redemption series for humans and mutants).
4. Runaways
These are titles that would fit in well under a Storm banner. I would definitely add in a few new characters mixed in with some familiar names.
No, there’s never been a market for Storm outside of the X-Men.
She isn’t a kewl brooding white male anti-hero who goes around fighting baddies with her snikts. She’s a powerful, regal black woman who’d probably spend her time preventing natural disasters, fighting to end civil wars and government corruption in her native countries, and advocating for animal rights/conservation programs. But none of that is fun or relatable to your average comicbook reader, which is why dumb characters like Deadpool and Harley Quinn are super popular.
Forgive my French but shit don't happen until you squeeze.
Sue Richards has a mini where she has a past as a SHIELD operative. No one imagined that scenario but someone is taking a chance. Will it have huge sales? Probably not but she's going to get a trade out of it and maybe another opportunity for a mini.
Maybe she doesn't get a solo ongoing. But, it wouldn't hurt her to have a few more minis come out. Maybe that's the direction for her.
And maybe team her up with some non-mutant heroes.
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No, absolutely not.
Storm is an anchor to the X-Men and critical to the franchise but she's so anchored that she can't ever stray from them.
She has pretty much been involved in every x-event of all time (maybe even second to only wolverine), which proves the franchise needs her but she needs the franchise too. She's never had a solo that blew the critics away.
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Pretty much. If there's one thing Sue's book has proved is that she can have solo stories and lose nothing. Her first ever book was never going to do huge sales, but it's the start of changing people's perceptions. She has also appeared in other books without the other members of the FF in tow, like Captain America and Invaders. Like you said, all of this is how should start changing perceptions of "team characters".
That's what Storm needs.
It likely won't happen in the next book Marvel gives her or the one after that, but if Marvel consistently pushes her then there is a chance to change that fan perception. That is one of the biggest barriers for "team characters" imo. Sales will always be low if fans off the bat think a character can't work alone. I genuinely think Storm can work, but it's about how much effort Marvel is willing to put in to make it happen because it will take a lot.
In other words; fake it til' you make it.
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Great! It had a predictable drop in sales between issues for books like this, but I'm hearing quite a few people enjoying it. So I hope good word of mouth makes up for it and it does well in trade.
That's what you have to hope for with team characters going solo. The first book is not going to set the charts ablaze, but with a consistent push and good creative teams... Who knows what the future holds?
I hope Marvel gives Storm a push really soon.
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If Carol can get a billion reboots, why can't Storm?
Storm is THE female of Marvel. *shrugs*