Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25734102-20141121005627/@comment-4651179-20141126001925

You're completely misunderstanding what I said. Entirely and completely. I never said it was wrong to diversify. I never said it was wrong to try something new. But why let reality ruin a wrong belief? You can keep believing anything you want.

I'm in favor of diversity. But I'm more realist and I know it's impossible to do what you want overnight. You don't understand that there's not only a desire for doing something correct, but there's also the need to do something profitable, and by that, and in Marvel's context, I mean to please the consumers.

You're entirely wrong about me. I like new things. I like to read new titles, I read more titles that are on the verge of cancellation than those who are enteral bestsellers. I'm the type of comic fan that has to suffer his some of his favorite titles like Scarlet Spider, Iron Patriot, New Warriors, All-New Invaders, or Ultimate FF getting cancelled. And you know why do they get cancelled? Because they're different and don't appeal the majority of the fan base.

Do you want to know why you find it funny that I "am" convinced nothing new will ever work even though I argue that a new Cap and Thor will work out just fine? Because you're completely missing my point.

My point is that what Marvel Comics creates needs to be a balance of what they want and what they need. They want to have more minority heroes. But they need to sell because it's their work. So they have to go with a safer route, which is turning top tiers into minorities, instead of turning minorities into top tiers.

I'm telling you that a Patriot series would fail not from my point of view, but because I'm taking into consideration other factos apart from my desires (unlike you). I read Young Avengers, Patriot wasn't exactly my favorite (I prefered Wiccan, Loki, and Hawkeye). But I know a Patriot book wouldn't sell because it's the market what won't let it sell. Trust me, I would be more than okay with trying a Patriot book. The same way I tried the Iron Patriot book, the Ultimate FF book, and all those books which didn't even get 10 issues.

And by "Black Panther's popularity will probably sky-rocket next year" it means that Black Panther will become more popular, not that he won't. I even like Black Panther, he's one of the characters I enjoy the most in New Avengers.

Guess you're the one going for the perfect record now, right?

Why does the replacement of Captain America come across as just because? Oh, I know. It's probably because it's been the first time a close friend (or ally) to a hero took up his mantle. Wait, no. Batman, Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man, Flash, and many other examples disagree.

The new Thor is not even gender swapping. It's a new version of the God of Thunder which is not Odinson that has already happened. But I guess there weren't riots because that time, the new Thor was a man, right? Like I said, the new Thor looks promising. It's promising. And it's delivering, so far in the two issues you keep claiming they're lame. I guess you do know better than most comic reviewing sites.

And do you know why does elevating an actual female character or creating a new one avoids that? Because no one would complain, because no one would care. As it has unfortunately happened over and over again.

Now you can go back and claim that admitting a reality that exists is the same as accepting it, as you've done so far with my argument. Being realist doesn't make mean one is happy with it. And I'm not happy with it. I wish books like New Warriors would sell as much as Avengers, or that books like Storm would sell as much as Amazing Spider-Man. Unfotunately, that's not how things are. The world will never be the way we want.