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Sodam Yat
The same thing can be said for Hal Jordan. And the sales numbers from Mosaic seemed to be fine. There was no excuses, other than people at DC probably wasn’t confidence enough that sales were going to be an issue with a black lead.
What you’re saying here is very subjective. It doesn’t really matter whether you think black DC characters aren’t as interesting to you. You certainly don’t speak for everyone. What you said there does not really excuse on why people over in DC Comics shouldn’t push these black characters even more and give them chances. If you think that’s why DC doesn’t do anything with black characters, then you’re pretty much proving my point.
Of those characters you mentioned, Green Lanterns are far more interchangeable than those Marvel characters. It’s not like Luke Cage, Atlas, and Victor Alvarez still share the same alias/identity. There’s an unfortunate competition where John always had issues competing with equality with characters like Hal, Guy, and Kyle, since he had issues with writers preferring to write those characters in more important roles than John around the Geoff Johns era. I honestly don’t really understand why you never acknowledge that as a problem here.
Did Geoff Johns write a Mr Terrific solo? Am I missing something? I doubt Geoff Johns had high control over at Marvel the way he does at DC. Geoff Johns has written an JLU episode that focus on John and Shayera. But the way he treated John as a character was night and day in the comics. He was just one of the major problems at DC.
No he hasn’t. No. He written Cyborg to have nothing to do when he’s in the Watchtower. Thanks to him, other writers carried the trend on what happened in the Justice League book and use him as just a transportation, since he had access to the mother box. Quite pathetic. And then you have complaints where he’s being compared to other other white males, because he’s mutilated.
I don’t think you really get it. When I say racially biased, I mean on more cases, a writer will easier identify themselves with that character. It’s just like how many black readers love black characters and how white readers really like white characters, same with Asians, etc. It just puts a character like John Stewart as a disadvantage, compared to white Green Lanterns on what we’ve saw when Johns was at the helm of the GL franchise.
Simon was heavily focused during his creation when Hal Jordan was the star of the book. He, then starred in his own book and been on the Justice League. When Simon seemed to not to be interested from other writers when Robert Venditti took over, Geoff Johns pitched the idea that Simon and Jessica to be in the Green Lanterns book. That’s a real good example of how to solicit a pitch specifically for a character at DC when writers doesn’t seem to be interested in a character.
That’s your opinion. I have no problems with that.
When Rebirth started, I was the one who came up with the idea that an existing black writer to start writing John as the solution. And Priest was indeed one of my picks, before I found out he was the one who killed Kat. With that said, Priest did make a statement on where he and other writers shouldn’t be hired to write only a black character, because they’re black. But that is the way it is. On where the less diverse writers in DC, the less chances you’ll see said diverse character appearing in a solo. I agree with what Priest said and I wish it was that way. But the way things went, it seems like you have to get more diverse writers to write diverse characters specifically.
Yea, I don’t know what thread that was.
New Superman was brought up as an example to get a diverse writer to write a diverse character, since it’s harder to get a white writer to write that diverse character. It had nothing to do with your personal opinions on the character.
When you make these kind of bad decisions, fans are going to speculate things that are questionable.
Both John and Wally’s character has been somewhat altered, since they can have an interesting GL/Flash dynamic. I’ve pointed out they said John was brought there because of his personality in the comics and not just his color.
He certainly did not. And it’s plain out awful on how they treated him. At least he has a solo book coming out. Which I don’t even think that is enough to make up on how they screwed him over. But it looks like they are probably trying to pay back those mistakes they did with him.
Yea, that one character is one of the reason why I got into comic books. That character means a lot to me. And it hurts they treated him like this, despite his success in the shows.
I’m totally fine with Snyder using Sinestro. And now he’s being used in one of DC’s top sellers.
Then there’s no reason to debate then, since we will never agree with each other.