Originally Posted by
skyvolt2000
A few things
Because that is what they ARE.
See with white characters-the market allows variety with them.
Look at your store shelves. How many straight white male books are there? How many get greenlighted a month?
Tim Drake can have a book and fail. It won't stop Conner Kent or Bart Allen or others like them from getting a book.
Now lets look at our POC-
When Milestone was around for the first time 1993-1997. Not counting already out books-Steel and Green Lantern Mosaic. How many black lead books did we see? Black Lightning.
And when writers TRY to write POC as people-guess who throws a FIT? POC. Milestone got ripped by black folks and Wizard The Guide to Comics for Milestone characters being white characters in black face. Another black company tore into Milestone (while NONE of their books made it past issue 1).
Lionforge's Noble bought up Noble's Granny being killed by black thugs. Folks (including the previous writer) took SHOTS at the current writer Kevin Grevioux.
The reason why a lot of those writers keep saying (and yes I HATE hearing it too) "we're being represented in comics" mainly at the Big Two is because way too many times THEY are the only ones using those characters or using them significantly. In some case those writers view it as the ONLY shot they will get with that character.
Now part of this is due to how they are used in certain books, one shots and backups. Most of the time it's a racism or hood story or a lecture story and at times marks the ONLY time a black person shows up or takes the lead. Superman is ULTRA guilty of this.
Monica Rambeau 1993 one shot by McDuffie-racism story.
The first 25 issues of Steel-Some of yall would need a TON of aspirin after reading that. Yes I do own that entire run.
Batman Seduction of the Gun-MERCY.
AVOID Black Lightning volume 2. TRUST ME....
Here is the thing what books NOT named Cap America Sam Wilson or Patriot Eli Bradley are doing that?
The majority of Marvel books are NOT doing that.
If one has an issue with Riri-who NEVER called her self Iron Man like Doom did-should they have an issue with Natasha Irons? What name is she going by?
If one has an issue with MILES-where is that rage with Miguel O'Hara? Who was doing FIRST.
If one has an issue with Falcon as Cap America-where is the rage for US Agent, Winter Solider, Danielle Cage and everyone else?
And to those folks I want to ask this....
Where were they when Mosaic, Blue Marvel, Blade, Prowler, Moon Girl, Nightwatch, Black Panther, Luke Cage, Falcon (under his own name) and Storm had books?
In fact where were they when black lead books at other companies like Creature Features, Relay, Reyn, Abbott, Bankshot, Noble, Static, Icon, Hardware, Bitter Root, Bone Parish, Concrete Park, Curse, The Deep (also a Netflix show), Kick Azz, Prodigy, Eve, Excellence, Farmhands, Fierce, The Fuse, Gasolina, Going to the Chapel, House of Slaughter, Dark Ages, Kiladelphia, Spawn, Savage Dragon, Livewire, The Mall, Mall, The Man who Effed Up Time, Number 13, Resonant, Rivers of London, S Factor, Sabre, Shadow Doctor (based on a true story), Shaft, Shadow Man, Source, Stronghold, Nita's Night Blog, Nobody's Child & Watson & Holmes.
MAYBE if these books (many are still active now) got support-Marvel MIGHT get the hint and change.