Because the industry is still gay for hyper masculine cliche’s. Besides, even if you don’t like her, we all know Dazzler is one of the X-men that has and could easily maintain her own series. She has such a huge life outside of the x-men which is why she’s generally just a cameo in the books. Tbh, she thrives in a solo.
The sells argument is such bull, especially when Cable and Captain Marvel have been revamped, or relaunched at least half a dozen times each.
Especially when you consider the sells of characters who are consistently on the lower end of sales, yet are constantly given a new title with a different creative team. The X-men have more than enough characters imo, who if given the long-term push could maintain a solo at least to the level of the characters who have already been mentioned. Besides a lack of continual use, X-characters have never received the kind of spotlight they deserve. This one property could easily rival all of the Marvel-Universe simply with the scope of its characters and the diversity in their stories. However each time they are given a solo, outside of Cable/Wolverine, it's usually out of the blue. Without the necessary planning, or thought into how Marvel would maintain this character long-term success. Storm solos of recent years are the first to come to mind, with all the connections she has, that title did not delve into much of what Ro' could be in the great Marvel U.
All of this!
But how can they get their own rogue galery if they don't get a mini? That's the old vicious circle.
That being said, some X-Men already have some foes, even if they are not exclusive to them.
Betsy Braddock, for instance: Mojo/Spiral, Jamie, Slaymaster, the Hand, eventually Saturnyne.
Magik: Belasco, Witchfire, World-Eater, herself, Nastir'h, possibly Maddie
Bringing back the old, killing the young: that's the Marvel way
Betsy also has Shadow King
As for Wolverine having a Rogues gallery, how do people think he got one without a solo? We met a few through Uncanny but a good chunk of whom would become his rogues were introduced and/or fleshed out in his solos. The same can be done with any other X-man
Yes. it is impossible give a solo shot for a lot of characters. Time to time they will release a solo mini like Madrox, shatterstar, juggernaut.
They have finite money
In theory yes, now in practice hard to do that with solos that doesn't last more than 12 issues
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Does a Iceman book about dating(that what it felt like), Teen Cable, Jean, Cyclop book instead of the adult more popular version, An Alternate reality Nightcrawler mini,etc. A Domino series
Do these things sound like stuff that should sell or even be made before other things? The only solo for X-men that imo have been decent attempts beyond X-23 and Cable is Gambit with Clay Mann on art, Storm with Greg Pak. And Storm just wasn't a good book which happens. Just see Captain Marvel or Ms Marvel for what you do when a good concept doesn't do good the first or second time. Ms Marvel is selling 13,000 copies,It is 100 percent guarantee they are going to relaunch that book.
Come back and tell me x-men solo don't sell when it is Cyclops by Grant Morrison, Jean Grey by Tom Taylor, Kitty Pryde by Gerry Dugan, Rogue by Mike Carey,etc. And when book fall in numbers like Black Panther, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor all have they relaunch the book giving it another chance to find its market.
It is not a sales issue it is an effort issue, They don't care to develop X-men as solo books because they can dump them team books do same stuff as you would in solo and make the same money using the team branding which is strong in the X-men. Branding is strong in comics I would bet money that Maruarders or Excaliber would have higher numbers with just the name Uncanny X-men. X-23 did much better with the name Wolverine.
Anyway I am done with this point, This reminds of the NFL when people would say Black or Running QBs can't play QB in NFL and gave some silly reason that sound like it made sense but it was really just a matter of giving them a fair chance. Once they got fair chances they were successful the myth away. To anyone who thinks other X-men solo can't work if X-men (which is a stealth solo for Cyclops )was called Cyclops do you think it wouldn't sell? And I know the answer because of Hickman it would is coming well that is the entire point. It is hard to for book to last more than 12 issues if you don't give the best chance for success.
We have X23, Cable, and Gambit who have shown they can sustain a book at different levels, It is not a matter IF one of other X-men can have a successful solo, It is which one is the right fit for the current market.
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Of course X-Men or team name sells better then Cyke, Jean, Kitty or Rogue names. It is the main reason why Cyclops solo one shot was called "X-Men: Marvels Snapshot".
Everything with X-Men name sells better.
No its not. Scott has not been the focal point of the series. You want a good example of a stealth solo? X-men Red which was Jean's book from beginning to end and never deviated from that. Ditto on X-men Legacy during the Xavier and Rogue runs. Scott has had brief cameos in more issues than he's actually been featured in. Slapping Cyclops on the front wouldnt even make sense as its not about him. He's very periphery to the world building that Hickman is doing and he's only be used as a POV character for that in a handful of issues
"It's not a sales issue."
Not by itself but if there's a demand for the character then they get their solo debut and the sales dictate whether that solo continues or not.
"Cable was right!"
Not always Marvel and DC are a wider businesses, Sometimes comics is the secondary thing or sometimes that book represents them trying to grow customer base or market.
Something like Captian Marvel was a calculated attempt to grow the women's market and to create a female character who can be used flagship/elite character to promote Marvel interests.You think Shang chi has movie and comic because of "demand "? Marvel badly wants a stronger foothold in Asia.
All I am saying in the world of comics sometimes the first or even second approach doesn't work. And Marvel has vested interest in making them work regardless of sales a great example of this is "Champions".