No surprise, Jaime Reyes is still leading the poll. Only thing Jaime is missing is a good live action version of him either a show or a movie! I wonder which will happen first
Aztek
Black Condor
Black Orchid
Blue Beetle
El Diablo
El Dorado
Engineer
Fire
Firebrand
Jessica Cruz
Kyle Rayner
Renee Montoya
Sideways
Vibe
Other
No surprise, Jaime Reyes is still leading the poll. Only thing Jaime is missing is a good live action version of him either a show or a movie! I wonder which will happen first
Done with DC. Can't handle the constant whiplash! Time to go on a hiatus!
Well he did have that appearance in Smallville......
Oh, wait, you said "good" live action.
"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.
FIRE 0.jpgWish DC would do something more w Fire.i e has Human Torch potential
For a Hispanic superhero to become A or even B list they would definitely need a mainstream tv show or a movie. That’s gonna be challenging as Hollywood has a horrible track record with Hispanic representation.
Here’s a excerpt from a recent USC study:
“While Latinos represent one-fifth of the US population and about 25% of moviegoers, a recent USC Annenberg study found that their representation in the industry has halved over the last decade — from 6% of the entertainment workforce in 2009 to 3% today.
The study found that among 1,200 popular films released between 2007 and 2018 (a sample of the top 100 films per year), just 4.5% of more than 47,000 speaking or named roles went to Latinx actors. Only 3% were lead or co-leads.“
I know there is a rumored HBO Max Blue Beetle show in development, but with the current state of Hollywood, I’ll believe it when I see it.
Wally was still young, but he was a legal adult when Barry died and Wally took his place. He had already been in college so he was at least 18, and given the time between Wolfman's first NTT issues and Crisis I'd guess Wally was anywhere from 18-20. Which is young, but at least old enough to join the military, vote, and be considered an adult. Not to mention Wally was already more experienced than most adult heroes and had been wearing a costume for several years.
I sorta-kinda get the rationale behind Jason-Firestorm; that's a whole lot of raw power to leave unchecked and Jason was a rookie with no idea what he was doing. I would've accepted it with Jaime too, if the League had said it when he first came on the scene. But now he's got some experience under his belt and he's proven capable of not blowing up buildings by mistake. So I think he's not old enough to join the League but not inexperienced enough to be babysat by them; let him join Young Justice or something for now, he can join the League later.
The League has taken in minors before, but I don't think they should.
"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 would say Kyle Rayner because to some fans, like me, he is the greatest Green Lantern of all time.
I memory serves me correct, Jaime is 18 years old, according to his last series. He’s legally an adult, with the fire power to join the league. The trouble is if he joins the league that’d would take a power house and popular character away from the Titans franchise (and yes he’s one of the more popular Titans, especially outside of comics). Then again it’s not like the Titans franchise are even using him as a member...
Those are absolutely horrendous numbers! I thought it was just me but I have noticed a significant drop in Latino representation on the big screen now compared to the 2000’s-2010’s...
Done with DC. Can't handle the constant whiplash! Time to go on a hiatus!
Is he 18 now? I know he was scoping out colleges towards the end of his last series but I thought that was more of a "junior year, starting to make plans" thing. Been a while since I read those issues though.
Well, if he's 18 then sure, let him join the League. He's definitely got the power and skill to join those ranks, and possibly more experience than some of the founding members had when the team was first formed. They'd be lucky to have him.
Of course, he'll get treated the same way Vic has; turned into a background character with little to no spotlight moments. But he'll be in the Justice League.
With the right creator it would be fantastic. But the League has become a dead end for heroes; it doesn't make you A-list, it's where the established A-list hang out. But as far as in-universe reasons for keeping him out of the League, his age was my only hangup. If he's 18 then I see no reason in-universe why he couldn't join.
"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’d honestly like to see Jaime join the League alongside Ronnie/Jason Firestorm and Stargirl. I feel like those characters just go together Virgil too but since there’s this whole rights thing with Milestone, I doubt he’d join them.
Technically, they all have the potential w/ enough corporate push behind them (see the slow, methodical 8-year process Marvel took to make Iron-Man an A-lister).
But in terms of which ones will maybe have it easier? Or be just more realistic? I'd go Montoya and Blue Beetle and that's pretty much. Vibe, Aztek, Black Orchid, and Engineer may have enough behind them to stand out as unique enough to really push. The GLs get lost in the shuffle w/ other GLs. The rest? Sorta...generic?
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Comics were definitely happier, breezier and more confident in their own strengths before Hollywood and the Internet turned the business of writing superhero stories into the production of low budget storyboards or, worse, into conformist, fruitless attempts to impress or entertain a small group of people who appear to hate comics and their creators. -- Grant Morrison, 2008
trade-waiting - Ice Cream Man, Monstress
backlog - Blade of the Immortal, Mignolaverse, Promethea, X-Cutioner's Song
Jaime, Jessica, and since he already has been A list before and thus no reason it couldn't happen again with a new push, Kyle.
I loved Bunker too but he's like any other New 52 holdover that hasn't just been outright erased/retconned: exists but irrelevant.
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