Who demanded the Omega Men? Not that DC really does anything that we know to gather sufficient evidence on the what people would try.
Because that was like 20 years ago?
I think the only one of those I liked was Voodoo. Which is kinda weird, to consider her a PoC. The others didn't have good creative teams at all, imo. Legion Lost, with Dawnstar and Tyroc, was basically squandered for no reason.
"There can be only one" unfortunately applies to what we see from comic buyers.
Yikes.
Yeah. I've asked for comic shops to get in books for me before and have been met with excuses, only to watch the title die shortly after.
It's not that big a deal. And they can always change it, wouldn't cause a lot of outrage there.
Voodoo is supposed to be mixed race/creole I thought?
However, I did read an issue of the Scott Lobdell Wildcats where wrote her as a Latina.
No, that is not necessarily what it means. Work for Hire has to do with who owns the copyright. If DC owns the copyright, but entered into a contract with Isabella to give him back end incentive to work on the project, it is still work for hire. Except for creator owned characters where the company just prints the book or licensed characters like Tarzan and Star Trek, I don't know of any comics published by the big two that are not work for hire. (Siegel and Schuster had a valid argument with Superman -- the character was created by them long before they sold it to DC -- but let's say for the last 50 years everything has been work for hire,)
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There might be an exception. Denny O'Neill created the character Richard Dragon for a novel he wrote. DC later published a book based on that novel. DC appears to have rights to the character, but whatever it's deal with Denny, with respect to that character, it's not work for hire.
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Until DC starts making smarter decisions, IMO.
Black Lightning is a favorite of mine....I wonder if Mark Waid could handle him in a solo series?
"History of the DC Universe" by Wolfman and Perez, when the DCU use to make sense.
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Except that, as people have mentioned, there was a chance for Black Lightning to show is popularity a couple of years ago, in the DC Universe Presents series. This is Omega Men's chance.
If nobody buys Omega Men, then they will cancel it and move on to something else that hasn't been tried in a while.
They might come back to Black Lightning eventually.
Yeah, forever an asterisk by her status as a PoC.
Any character SHARING a single arc over a year into a dying anthology will fail to garner demand. If Marvel held off on continuing the story of Peter after Amazing Fantasy, he'd be a footnote.
Certainly, it's a little different than getting a book of his own launched and pushed as part of a new initiative.
Except Peter's story in Amazing Fantasy sold well enough to suggest he should get a solo book. It wasn't based on faith in the character, it was based on sales and feedback.
Black LIghtning's appearance in DC Universe Presents apparently did not sell high enough to give DC the same impression.
Just as with a more recent example, Spider Gwen took marvel by surprise in an Edge of Spider Verse issue and quickly got her own book. Edge of the Spider Verse 2 is her Amazing Fantasy