A.J.Juiceon

April 6, 2015 7:50 pm I meant brand new characters not spin offs of current characters or titles. I love Miles Morales but what if he was a completely new character with all new powers not just Spidey's replacement. I just want the big two to have more confidence in new characters instead of having to rely so heavily on their core by re imagining them as gender bent or of another enthicity.

April 6, 2015 5:06 pm Thanks for choosing my question this week. My beef with this team is two-fold: First, with the age of half of this team, why not just do a new Young Avengers group? I'm not against diversity in characters. I love Kamala and Miles. I think they're great characters. Having a more diverse cast is a good thing, the way they've gone about it isn't. Second, changing white characters into black and men into women shows that Marvel doesn't have a lot of confidence in their existing minority and women characters. They should have retired Captain America and made Thor unworthy, and had characters like Black Panther and Captain Marvel step in to fill the void. Characters who actually represent the diversity they want to introduce. Also, those two characters are going to get their own movies so they could use that to push them into the limelight. If you look at the numbers Lady Thor is outselling Sam Cap by a substantial margin so it's not necessarily the amazing effect of diversity that sells books but rather the stories being told.