Reptil gets a miniseries in May 2021

[Snoop Dogg]

The thing holding back your favorite character and their toaster is definitely a mini-series about a niche character from an underserved demographic.

[Milici]

The thing holding back your favorite character and their toaster is definitely a mini-series about a niche character from an underserved demographic.

Wich demographic? People from Nevada?

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

I remember him from Avengers Academy so I'm curious how it goes.

[Frontier]

Little kids who first saw him on Superhero Squad 12 years ago, are old enough to have income now.

Makes sense to have him back in comics.

Never thought I'd see Marvel cater to Super Hero Squad fans .

[Sutekh]

Never thought I'd see Marvel cater to Super Hero Squad fans .

I had no idea he had been in a cartoon, myself.

I guess he's got some demographic cred, at least. There's not exactly a deep bench there. Living Lightning? White Tiger? Anya Corazon? Hummingbird? Rictor? Not exactly a lot of 'Black Panther' or even 'Shang Chi' level characters to choose from.

[Snoop Dogg]

I had no idea he had been in a cartoon, myself.

I guess he's got some demographic cred, at least. There's not exactly a deep bench there. Living Lightning? White Tiger? Anya Corazon? Hummingbird? Rictor? Not exactly a lot of 'Black Panther' or even 'Shang Chi' level characters to choose from.

Spider-Man.

[Digifiend]

Yup, Miles is Afro-Latino.

[your_name_here]

Always wanted Cloud 9 to take off more than she did. An interesting character.

[mugiwara]

Good to see that Avengers Academy gets some love. I hope some of Reptil's pals will show up in the story too.
Now if only a black jewish writer could come to Marvel with a pitch about Mettle...

[gurkle]

The thing holding back your favorite character and their toaster is definitely a mini-series about a niche character from an underserved demographic.

LOL. Fair enough. This really wasn't the place for me to complain about that.

[9th.]

The thing holding back your favorite character and their toaster is definitely a mini-series about a niche character from an underserved demographic.

Exactly I don't why people hate on things like this, Reptil is not stopping your beloved obscure character from getting a book. If Marvel wanted to put a Sleepwalker book they'd do it.

[phantom1592]

Exactly I don't why people hate on things like this, Reptil is not stopping your beloved obscure character from getting a book. If Marvel wanted to put a Sleepwalker book they'd do it.

Not always true.

There are quite a few times that Marvel or DC limit the number of books they'll print and the number of writers on staff. If they're only publishing 30 books a month... then yeah, I can see some competition to see who gets those slots.

[Agent Z]

Not always true.

There are quite a few times that Marvel or DC limit the number of books they'll print and the number of writers on staff. If they're only publishing 30 books a month... then yeah, I can see some competition to see who gets those slots.

This proves rather than disproves 9th's point. They could have given this slot to anyone they wanted.

[Anduinel]

I wish this was Gage writing, but glad to see Reptil survived. I'll probably give this a shot.

[Drops Of Venus]

Not always true.

There are quite a few times that Marvel or DC limit the number of books they'll print and the number of writers on staff. If they're only publishing 30 books a month... then yeah, I can see some competition to see who gets those slots.

Even if that is the case, getting mad at a minor character is pointless, because they are usually not the ones taking up space in the bigger picture, specially considering this is just a mini. A character like Reptil has it worse than characters like Scarlet Witch and Vision, because he is a lot less likely to pop up in team books and such, since a lot less people care about him. These four issues might be the only good thing he'll get for himself for a while before jumping back to limbo.

I am personally more frustrated at bigger characters taking up space that they don't need. We didn't need a second ongoing for Peter Parker in the form of Non-Stop Spider-Man. We didn't need a Wolverine solo when the same writer was already writing him on X-Force. We didn't need the Avengers line to be reduced to an ''all-star'' kind of team that uses mostly characters who already have their own solos. Those are slots that could've been given to other characters that didn't have any book.