Naomi came from the same place as Star Girl being inspired by a family member.
Naomi was more about Bendis's daughters than anything else.
But as pointed out earlier what was stopping DC from pushing Vixen like they sort of did with Naomi?
This invest in one POC at a time nonsense is old.
Not all writers get anything for those characters.
Not everyone get royalties and if they do it's not to a level some would think.
Trevor Van Eden got $500 for Season 1 of Black Lightning.
Larry Hama gets NOTHING for GI Joe. Now think of how much HE has done from 300+ comics, scripts to all those bios on the back of the packages. He has to keep working despite not feeling well. And he's a war vet.
Tynion's table is NOT getting that much food from DC. It's getting from his Boom Studios work. Wynd, The Woods, Backstagers, Something is Killing Children and House of Slaughter are paying the bills.
Those are what got him the Batman gig.
Unless your contract promises you to get something then sure but even THEN guess what I wouldn't do it. How many characters DESPITE having folks wanting to write them beyond guest spots are sitting in limbo because of their creator.
Blue Marvel and Ultraverse says HI.
Throw me in with the Sandsmarks being bootleg K.O's of the Kapatelis women.
Wonder Woman has a lot of those:
Why create Grail when Devastation exists?
Why create Dark Angel when Circe exists?
Why create First Born when Ares exists?
Why create Lizzie when Lyta exists?
Why create Jason when Achilles exists?
Because he lends himself to the story and there's nothing being done with the Doom Patrol or Immortus currently.
And the same question could be asked about using Joker in a Superman arc, Solomon Grundy in a Justice League arc, etc. It's stupid to relegate a villain strictly to a single hero/team if they can be used well in a different hero's story.
Currently(or soon to be) Reading: Alan Scott: Green Lantern, Batman/Superman: World's Finest, Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Jay Garrick: The Flash, Justice Society of America, Power Girl, Superman, Shazam, Titans, Wesley Dodds: Sandman, Wonder Woman, & World's Finest: Teen Titans.
It's probably a mix of creators gonna create and there's more money with creating new characters with an existing character doesn't fit the story the writer wants to tell. There's also a lack of knowledge and a belief that an existing character wouldn't work.
The latter options are aspects an editor could push back on or challenge. According to freelancers on Twitter, most writers are approached with a book or a project for them to do.
Yara is a refugee/immigrant from Brazil which gives her a range of possibilities that Cassie can't do. I rather she get her own id than be a legacy of Diana but I don't think it was wrong to create her.
I don't know who Darcy is but the other serve a purpose that you can't really fill with an existing character. Or you can but it would feel incongruous or regressive with them.
Outside of Ghostmaker who should've been a Terry villian than with Bruce.
Jace is like Yara-he would've been better with a new ID than being Batman VII. He'd work better as Nobody- the Question analogue introduced at the end of I am Batman.
Future State as a whole would've worked better as the next Tangent or Just Imagine style universe.
Last edited by the illustrious mr. kenway; 03-10-2024 at 08:06 AM.
^^^ reading your thoughts on this, I fully agree.
There’s nothing wrong w. dusting off an unused pre-existing villain and having them interact w. different hero.
Oddly, your thoughts also remind me of something I posted not long ago regarding Powergirl’s current status;
why completely change a pre-existing character to such a degree just to tell your story (which isn’t exactly setting the comics world on fire), then leave that character out in the wind for another writer to fix, when you can just create your own character?
Hal brought in a pretty clear difference in premise than Alan; the whole space cop corps and all that came along with it. I don’t think Barry Allen was as big a reinvention as that compared to Jay. I actually don’t know why they didn’t just use the name Jay Garrick again instead of retconning him into being a in universe fictional comic character. But then if that didn’t happen maybe we wouldn’t have the multiverse as such a big part of dc and Superheroes in general; at least maybe not the way it ended up being.
I think on Jason from WW. They could have used The Olympian, but the writer wanted an emotional connection to Diana. IMO, it sucked, but I get the point.