Originally Posted by
MoneySpider
Some fan bases are united enough to contact Marvel repeatedly to make their voices heard about something and don't just complain on message boards when they are unhappy about something. Which is my entire point. This is something that the Black Panther fan base NEEDS to do, but we don't, and I have no idea why we can't get the same type of motivation to do that like other fan bases do.
For instance: I think just about every poster in this thread would love to have Priest's entire run of Black Panther collected. How come we have never unified as a fan base and flooded Marvel with requests to give us that Priest collection, especially since every other writer's run on Black Panther has been made into collections by Marvel? We've had 11 years to flood Marvel for requests for such a collection, and as far as I know, we have not. What are we waiting for?
Not too long ago, I asked posters in this thread to sign a petition for it, and only 36 people signed it, while others were under the impression that petitions don't work (which is false because I have been a part of two successful petitions in the past in relation to Marvel). I also asked the posters in this thread to spread the word about the petition via Facebook and Twitter, but I never received any confirmation about whether or not that was going to be done. So at this point it's like the petition is in limbo with only 36 signatures, which is far below the 100 signatures that would make the petition a success.
Another thing is, I think it's safe to say that any Black Panther fan posting in this thread WANTS Black Panther to always be written correctly and never be written as poorly as he sometimes has been in the past, yet we never unify and convey THAT wish directly to Marvel on a consistent and persistent basis (which in my mind leaves the way open for some writers to portray Black Panther any way they see fit, much to our disappointment, anger and chagrin.