Originally Posted by
millernumber1
To be fair, Priest has always written black characters. In Deathstroke, he added Red Lion/Ja Zaki, Wallace and Tanya at least, and he has added a lot of black characters in his Vampirella run as well. It's the idea that he can ONLY write black main characters that he was frustrated with, and I think Black Adam is a very different type of character than the type that was probably being offered to him - Black Lightning, Luke Cage, even Black Panther (though he's open about his vision of Black Adam as very similar to Black Panther).