Marvel’s new Iron Man is a 15-year-old M.I.T black girl Riri Williams aka Iron Man(African American)

[loyola llothta]

They are already focusing on T'Challa. His book was number 1 in the country in April, and the only non-A list character, non-Star Wars, non-Issue #1 book to be in the top 10 for two months straight now. His book is selling very well at the moment.

Luke Cage already has a teamup book with Iron Fist. It's getting some pretty good reviews. Sales are ehhh at the moment.

They tried giving Storm a solo in 2014 and the sales were .

Marvel has done what you suggested. Only T'Challa is selling very well. The rest of the non-legacy black characters? Either average numbers at best (for now), or they are approaching the cancellation zone (or the no-renewal zone, considering the 12-issue system they have now).

Meanwhile, Miles, Kamala, and Jane-Thor are selling well. Cho and FalCap have solid numbers for now.

Considering those odds, its no wonder Marvel is going the legacy route.

how young boy nova doing?

 

[Dat Migo]

lameeeee

 

[Birnin Zana]

how young boy nova doing?

Believe it or not...Nova is doing "Storm" numbers.

Current Nova book after seven issues (its on issue #7 right now): 162,274 books sold


Storm after seven issues: 165,585 books sold.

I calculated the sales figures using data from here: Monthly Rankings for Comic Book Sales

Nova's numbers are close to that of one the most popular female characters in comics and one of the most popular black characters who had major push via tv shows, video games, movies, and has been well featured in many comics, both in and out of X-Men, for decades.

Storm's popularity >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nova's popularity.

Yet their numbers are close...

...Damn, I'm kinda shocked right now

 

[TRIPLE M]

if theyre going to call her iron man than marvel might as well please more groups and make her a tranny

 

[Easy-E]

Not sure how they are coming off these days but Kamala Khan is a great character. I love characters like that...her, Monet, the missing Threnody from Nate Grey's old X Man book, etc.

ms marvel vol 1 is next on my to 'read' list

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

fukk all this. DC REBIRTH is LIT

 

[loyola llothta]

Believe it or not...Nova is doing "Storm" numbers.

Current Nova book after seven issues (its on issue #7 right now): 162,274 books sold


Storm after seven issues: 165,585 books sold.

I calculated the sales figures using data from here: Monthly Rankings for Comic Book Sales

Nova's numbers are close to that of one the most popular female characters in comics and one of the most popular black characters who had major push via tv shows, video games, movies, and has been well featured in many comics, both in and out of X-Men, for decades.

Storm's popularity >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nova's popularity.

Yet their numbers are close...

...Damn, I'm kinda shocked right now

young charlie brown almost doing storm numbers

 

[Animal House]

As a black man i think this is retarded. Make a new character dont make Ironman a jailbait AA. That shyt is just

 

[Norrin Radd]

As a black man i think this is retarded. Make a new character dont make Ironman a jailbait AA. That shyt is just

It's hard as hell selling new characters, let alone new PoC characters.

 

[CarltonJunior]

I can't cosign

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Piggybacking off of white characters instead of making new original characters

No thanks. It's lazy as shyt and it is pathetic pandering

This...

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Believe it or not...Nova is doing "Storm" numbers.

Current Nova book after seven issues (its on issue #7 right now): 162,274 books sold


Storm after seven issues: 165,585 books sold.

I calculated the sales figures using data from here: Monthly Rankings for Comic Book Sales

Nova's numbers are close to that of one the most popular female characters in comics and one of the most popular black characters who had major push via tv shows, video games, movies, and has been well featured in many comics, both in and out of X-Men, for decades.

Storm's popularity >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nova's popularity.

Yet their numbers are close...

...Damn, I'm kinda shocked right now

Has that ever been a factor though? If Marvel doesn't have their top writers and artists on board as while as not marketing it as a big deal can you be surprised if a solo starring someone like Storm doesn't do amazing numbers

 

[Birnin Zana]

Has that ever been a factor though? If Marvel doesn't have their top writers and artists on board as while as not marketing it as a big deal can you be surprised if a solo starring someone like Storm doesn't do amazing numbers

Just so that I understand, are you asking if the overall popularity of a character matters in terms of boosting sales of a book? If so, I would answer with "usually....yes."

Batman's name alone sells books. Same with Superman, Spider-man, Wolverine and now even Cap, Iron Man, Thor and Hulk due to the MCU.

In Storm's case, its not as if she was a lesser-known or unknown character (to casuals and the mainstream) who finally got some shine on a major scale (like Black Panther did in Civil War). Storm has been well featured in many cartoon shows and video games, has been featured in over three blockbuster films by an oscar-winning actress, and has been well featured in comics for decades. After Wonder Woman, one could make the argument that Storm is the next most popular female character in comics. Off of name recognition alone, Storm's book should've sold better.

Not to mention that Storm's book was written by Greg Pak, the same guy who's writing the Cho-Hulk book right now. Cho-Hulk's book is doing waaaaaaaaay better than Storm's book did. The art in the Storm book wasn't excellent, but it was solid imho.

All this to say that there's no reason for a legacy-character of Nova, who may have a following, to come even close to Storm's numbers. There's also no reason for Storm's numbers to not be higher than they were. But as I mentioned before, most comic book fans, despite all their rhetoric, are creatures of habit. Thus, Storm's book suffered quickly when it came out.

 

[feelosofer]

Stinks of pandering to an 'underserved' audience.

 

[NobodyReally]

Some black Marvel fans on Tumblr are saying some interesting things.

Someone wrote:

this feels a lot like bendis is using poc people as stepping stones to further his career; he used miles morales for that, but now that he started writing him wrong, he’s bringing another poc face to the table & i’m worried he’s going to be using poc faces to further his “all lives matter, i don’t see color, i’m not racist” agenda that he started doing with miles


I'm not familiar with Bendis. Anyone feel like he messed up Miles' character or is trying to further a colorblind/raceless agenda by using people of color?