Originally Posted by
lemonpeace
it's always doable, I think people are just too worried trying to rush to the end goal. the 17 issues they burned on this Outsiders book (which was lowkey a backdoor Black Lightning showcase) could've be a Black Lightning book to start getting stories under his belt. DC throws out random one off maxis and minis and short lived titles all the time, the problem it's never the characters they should be building up and they never are made to overtly build on what's established for the character. there isn't any reason that in 3-4 season of Black Lightning we get 6 issues of a BL solo but we have time to do Lois Lane mini, a Jimmy Olsen mini, a Martian Manhunter maxi, etc etc. that's not a knock on these characters, every character is someone's favorite, but all the talent and resources they pump into these scattershot random books could've been use to build up and capitalize on Black Lightning all these years. you don't need 100-150 issues, you can establish Black Lightning in 50 (Priest did it, Lobdell did it, hell Venditti breathed new life into Hawkman in 28 issues, and Gene Luen Yang did it with Mister Terrific in about the same. people forget, the daughters weren't around for all that long before people started warming up to them as being iconic to Jeff's character, like 8 years before the reset that I think were less than 100 issues in total.