They bring these characters out during Black History and pride month.

Static, Cyborg, Vixen, Bumblebee, John Stewart, Steel, Batwing, Icon, Rocket, Mr. Terrific, and Kaldur are so underrated it’s actually painful to see. Signal really could use something. He’s been criminally underused.

GREAT Video bro! Another gripe I have with DC's black characters is that there arent enough ORIGINAL ones who arent tied to a mantle. Don't get me wrong, I love John Stewart, Jace Fox, Calvin Ellis, etc, but it really annoys me how DC doesn't put enough of a spotlight on the more original characters like Static (who for some reason hasnt gotten a new series to follow Shadows of Dakota) and they don't take enough risks with creating NEW Black characters. With Marvel, you have Black Panther, Luke Cage, Blade, Blue Marvel, Falcon, Storm, and many more. Most of DC's characters are tied to ANOTHER hero's legacy, and while Im not opposed to that (unlike the racist Comicsgate weirdos), I do think it comes off as lazy when nearly ALL of your minority characters are just different versions of the pre-established characters. And your 100% right in the fact that DC doesn't do enough with giving these characters more of a spotlight, and letting their runs continue, and prosper. Green Lantern: War Journal is PHENOMONAL, and has been well received with everyone who has been reading it. Why is it being canceled? It will never not urk me.

The major problem is lack of diversity which it comes to writers.

I think the big problem DC has is that they only focus on specific minority characters during the two months they're most visible. They practically parade them out as if they're saying "We're not bigots, See?!" while ignoring those same characters the rest of the year. They're more interested in the attention that a character or mantle raceswap gets them than they are really fleshing out some of the fantastic characters that already exist. It's a shame as they're throwing away the chance for new fans to discover them.

This is a much larger conversation, but I cannot stress enough that the reason diverse characters suffer bland, uninteresting, flat stories that no one is ever interested in is because we simply cannot put diverse characters through the necessary meat grinder that great storytelling requires. You cannot beat women within an inch of their life the way you can Superman. You can’t have black characters making really poor moral decisions, suffering regret and repercussions and then allowing them to find a way back to the light. I CANNOT STRESS enough how terrified these conglomerate publishers and movie houses are of putting diverse, LGBTQ and women characters through the meat grinder that straight white males get to travel through on their way to amazing stories. It didn’t used to be the way it is now. They had to literally take down a billboard of Mystique being choked out by Apocalypse. 😂 It’s incredibly sad, but with the exception of some prominent diverse creators, 95% of what’s made cannot allow diverse characters to truly suffer or to take a wicked path.

Maaannn somebody send this to Warner Bros and DC. I need a Milestone animated universe.

2:03 Because this Medium is heavily surrounded by Nostalgia, there are many people who their only issue is they do not like the idea of a superhero Mantle being passed down at all, they don't care who the Mantle is passed to. Even white dudes being replaced by other white dudes. They just want more stories about the same character they grew up with. So that feeling is usually the strongest with their favorite character. I'm a bigger Batman fan, than I am a Spider-Man fan, so Peter being replaced by Miles didn't bother me, But Bruce Wayne being replaced by anybody does.

Vixen is so incredibly cool and criminally underrated and she has so much potential. There's a lot you could do with her, you could explore her background of being an African immigrant and her mystical family lineage with the magic totems.

It's a real shame John Stewart doesn't get more recognition in other media. I don't read a lot of comics, but he was always my favourite GL in the DC animated universe.

The reason why the diverse characters can't work is because the comic book company DC in general right now has destroyed their continuity So all of these characters some of these characters used to already have a lot of stories that were built in multiple different comic books but now with the continuity being rebooted and them having to start over from scratch a lot of those stories and a lot of those histories are lost to most people and then when they do bring these characters what do they focus on the characters being black replacing the white character talking about how better they are because they're black or diverse or a lot of their stories go on with the fact that the world is racist towards them and people hate black people all of a sudden that's the reason why a lot of the old stories don't work and no you cannot just come together with the whole group of black female superheroes because you need a reason for them to get be together what would bring them together what reasoning will bring them together not just because they're black and it doesn't make sense to have them together just for the hell of it when a lot of those characters live in different parts of the world and in different areas so they really wouldn't meet each other like that in general and the reason with the milestone characters is because they disrespected to history and the law and rebooted them to do something different to the point where everybody gave up on them once they got rebooted it's the same thing with a lot of these diverse black characters or black and the reason with the milestone characters is because they disrespected to history and the law and rebooted them to do something different to the point where everybody gave up on them once they got rebooted it's the same thing with a lot of these diverse black characters or diverse characters in general when you only focus on the fact that they're diverse or when you try to play the whole it's just a mantle it's just a mantle thing most people are rejecting it because a lot of those characters didn't come in naturally a lot of those characters was created so they can be replacements people say that they aren't but most of them were and then if you do things that people don't like with the characters like having them come out of nowhere be better than Batman Superman Wonder Woman yeah you're you're not going to get people on your side you have to go through character development and then if you focus on the surface level features of what they are or their sexuality that turns people off as well You have to have history with these characters these characters have to go through a lot of character development and usually you don't need to put them in solo books all the time You actually need to put them in books that people are going to actually read and then see if they're good enough to break out as a solo character because a lot of characters including the white characters don't have comic books as well and you know they a lot of those characters are good characters too but sometimes not every character can do solo comic books and sometimes you can only get a six issue out of them You sometimes you can only get a eight issue out of them It is what it is but they also have to get good writers to actually want to tell a story with those characters and not surface level features

DC has a lot of great black characters that they refuse to use. Milestone should have at least 3 ongoing series. I also feel like Duke deserves better, and should be used more than when DC feels like reviving the outlaws.

They call it a diversity issue, but I call it a skill issue.

I was talking to a black friend recently about DC and I felt bad that the best DC has done for the black community was the Static cartoon from the 2000s (and even then, that's a Milestone character). They operate in a short sighted way. They don't put in the work for their black characters. If the minority led books don't sell "well enough" it gets cancelled and we're left with a couple solo issues and maybe the really popular ones show up in team ups. Comics, especially DC, works by building on it's history. If their best black characters only have at best, a volume's worth of stories, that ain't much to build off of.

All these ideas are good, no doubt. But at the end of the day, it all comes down to DC actually putting in the effort of hiring TALENTED and PASSIONATE writers and artists who wanna tell a good story, and not just make garbage to push an agenda. Remember what happened with "I'm Not Starfire"?

They don’t care to write well written black characters

Miles is the best example in my opinion of what a black should be. He speaks to people in the neighbourhood he'll help an old woman across the street stuff like that. Like static shock. I always like the episode where his friends dad thinks he's changing his son. I live in England and I'm white but police over here mostly care about your social status. They'll always be racist but I've been stopped multiple time because they think I have a knife. When I was younger a crack addict attacked me and the police didn't show up for 4 hours then I told the police he lives in the house infront of my moms they didn't care and just left. Going to the shop I'm followed around or when I hangout with friends who live in nice areas an their parents think I'm gonna get him killed because of where I live. In the show they forgive the dad because hate brings more hate but they can't create a comic run about him.

I hope they do something with icon and static the milestone characters are so so good

As much as I love Duke, I seriously doubt he's the strongest of the batfamily

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I would like to point out to you {young man}. That black people have always been into the comic space and are not just getting into it. I and my friends and family are proof of that. i have been collecting comics since I was a young jit and my pops also collected. To be fair we have old Bob Hope comics and bronze age comics that were collected by my grandfather. I even wrote an essay in grade school about why there needs to be more representation in comics. To put it in perspective for you I am 49. I wrote this for you (Not to you) in hopes that it could bolster your arguments and maybe inspire you to do what we tried and failed to do. Be the catalyst for the changs we need. Thank you for your passion and enthusiasm!

Great Video dawg! I ALSO HIGHLY recommend STEEL by Michael Dorn. It too was a Dawn of DC launch title. Severely Underrated. RED HOOD: The Hill is another. It focuses heavily on the Black Community in the Hill and RED HOOD and Batman are just Co-stars. Its written by Shawn Martinbrough. I too hope DC continues trying to push Black Characters, especially since we're on the way to another status quo shift post Absolute Power. This current attempt was solid, despite the runs being short. But I am happy that instead of ongoing stories getting cut short due to low sales, we're getting complete tales that have the potential to continue later down the line. I think fans can also be better about supporting said books and DC needs to do a better job promoting these books to Black characters to Black folk. Man i could go on and on about this but I wont. You got a new sub and id love to chop it up with you at some point. Love seeing Black content creators in the Space. LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Theyll make the characters to try an appease us, but then do nothing with them! Look at Signal, bro has the coolest powers and could fight against Gotham villains.. Or have static in lieu of the animated series, Steel could be working with Supes more, etc.

I agree with you any ethnicity can play Batman but only a Caucasian man can play Bruce Wayne because that what Bruce Wayne is. Same goes goes for Spider-Man, Superman, Thor, Ironman, the Flash etc... who shall ever be worthy can take on the mantle of these characters but you can't go changing the race of Bruce,Peter, Clark, Thor Odinson, Tony, Wally, etc... Just to fit the story

Super mix/Justice for more fictional characters

Mr. Terrific needs love. He’s so cool and has so much potential. DC been fumbling their black characters for a hot min tho

(Watches a few minites in): OH THANK GOD, this is a good faith video.

DC series I would like to read: Black Lightning (he could use a new name, in retrospect); Wonder Woman (Yara Flor), Doctor Light (Kimiyo Hoshi - she needs a new name, too); Doctor Fate (Khalid Nassour); Batwing (an african one, please. Amercans need not apply when the character started life as an african character); Hardware; Martian Manhunter.

They really don't use these characters enough, they just exist, and some of them just seem to be there to fill out the league, or whatever team. They aquire or invent these characters and do nothing. I can't see too much hope for them, DC cam barely keep a show going, especially a Justice League show, I'm surprised some of the Arrowverse shows lasted as long as they did. It seems that sticking with the mains aren't really helping the comics, and I feel like they're exhausting Batman, like they're doing to him what marvel has been doing with Spider-Man. Niether gets any peace. I've actually been working on laying out some DC fan fiction with some original characters, and two hardly ever used characters, that takes place in hardly used cities. You've got me considering putting some of these characters in them. Mr. Terrific is going to be in one of them.

Look up Pendragon: The Legend Foretold

Bloodwynd is a cool character

VIXEN MENTIONED! DC needs to get their shit together tho fr

I wrote Green Lantern starring John Stewart, Jo Mullein, Simon Baz and Keli Quintella, Truth & Justice starring Vixen and The Blood Syndicate,. All in the last three years. I created Mosaic for Marvel and rebooted Hobie Brown as the Hornet. Currently writing X-Force led by Forge. Folks gotta show up. Simple as that.

Btw as a Hispanic Man, The blue beetle movie and the current comic are SPECTACULAR and the exact type of book DC should be investing in instead of canceling at issue 12.

Did they ever define the Signal's power set?

I'm still wanting Static to be a more prominent character for DC. I grew up watching the cartoon and got into reading the 90s Milestone run in the 11th grade. I hope DC and Milestone can find a more capable writer for Static since I found the first issue of Static Season 1 very boring and haven't heard great things for the rest of the arc.

This makes me understand to support Milestone media more

Did you read Michael Dorn's run on the Steelworks series?

I like well written character i do t care what they are put the story first

I grew up with the static tv series.So I love it, but when I read the comics.I was like, "This is not the same thing I watched on Tv when I was a kid." So i'm just gonna stick with Manga.

I stopped reading comics around DKM or Final crisis where the JL "died" im gonna be yappi g about a few thi gs but hear me out. I always dislike it when characters are race swapped because the lack of diversity and potential. How many potential characters we have that are still on the shelf collecting dust and even when they create characters they're not breaking through obscurity because of their golden geese such as Batman, Harley quinn and other popular characters. Theres a character named Naomi who was a recent new character 2-3 years ago and she instantly got her own show despite being fairly new until it flopped. iDK what she's doimg now though in comics? Personally I believe they say they care about diversity until otherwise. Not all but most of them aren't authentic when it comes the creating/developing diverse characters making it feel like they're doing it for brownie point by pandering only when it's convinet. We can have multiple movies/adaptations of Batman, superman, JL, Suicide squad, Teen titans but we cant get any other black super heroes like static shock and black lightning. I wanna see other milestone characters but we know they aint gonna do jack the most they can do is have rocket in young justice and mention Icon's name. Wonder woman who is part of the trinity still doesnt have her own show yet Harley quinn can her own. (DC super hero girls dont count) im surprised she manage to get 2 animated films. I love cyborg but i feel like when im watching/reading justice league hes either a plot device or just in the background telling characters whats going on and what they need to do. I want to be interested in signial but similar to cyborg he's a background character except i hardly see him do anything significant or some type of role that stands out. At the end of the day they care about money and what sells it doesnt matter what character we want to see if they aint as popular as Batman, sups, harley quinn, teen titains, they're gonna remain on the shelf until they get picked out for a team full of white characters

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Didn't relaunch Milestone though?

Would you say Bruce Wayne is the way he is because he's white? Just curious as I wouldn't have been against someone like Winston Duke playing him. Although I guess Bruce is quite a white name 😅

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Here’s a few issues, as a black man, I’ve acknowledged with black characters in comics. 1. Too many of these black characters are sabotaged by being legacy characters… especially when there’s so many other better candidates. You’re telling me that in Future State Batman, you rather give the Batman mantle to a whole ass unknown rather than one of the already pre established Batfamily characters or even Terry McGinnis since this is a whole new era based in the future? You’re literally setting this character up for failure! Compare that Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle, a legacy character who’s his own character with his own fresh lore and iconic events. He’s honestly his own mythos compared to the other Blue Beetles! Black characters need to be given their own legacies, rather than carrying that of someone else’s. 2. This is gonna be a controversial opinion, but alot of black writers… don’t know how to write black characters… without getting boringly political. Im sorry, but it’s true. When black writers approach these characters, they feel an obligation of sorts to say something political with them. This could be fine, but the issue is that they don’t juxtapose it with something actually creative or fun. The X-men is the most political series out there, but it has the most iconic comic book events such as Days of Future Past and Dark Pheonix. I love Static and Milestone, but those comics were never really able to balance their political messaging with fun storytelling in my opinion.

And if we do get a Comic for them DC would make them Short as Fuck and we really need a Static Comic and Show bro is Powerful as F there many thing they can Explore about his Powers Since he hasn't reach his Limits yet like bro he literally can Reattach his Body parts

Wait WHAT why wouldn't they just use my dawg Kaldur???

I would love some more static shock stories or a new show

Gotta hit that subscribe button on every black comic channel 🙏🏾🙏🏾 Wishing you growth and prosperity bro

They can't even write a basic story now a days

Diversity has become code for segregation. How many Straight male writers who are not white have been hired by Marvel or DC? They've shouted diversity, but they don't hire straight males, you know the people who buy and read the comics. On top of that fans have been asking for more original black characters, but instead of Marvel and DC listening, we got Miles Morales. Hes just Peter Parker but Black. We have Batwing... Who cares about Batwing? We have Duke Thomas... Who's Duke Thomas? A wannabe Batman sidekick. I think the problem is a lack of diversity. Because most of these modern writers have the same ideas, tell the same ol stories and worse they inject modern day politics in our comics... Why is Donald Trump in my comic books? Why is are my favorite characters protesting in the streets instead of fighting villains? Maybe skin color isn't as important as good storytelling. Also it's really sad how people are treating Miles Morales compared to Static Shock. Virgil Hawkings is an Original black character. He should have another animated show, he should have a movie, he should be featured and respected more he's an original black character, but he's treated like he's expendable. Miles Morales however is getting the A List treatment despite him being so uninspiring. It's just weird how the Original character is side lined for a carbon copy. And I know Marvel and DC are two different companies, but the fact that Miles is the poster boy for representation shows how little Representation really matter.

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If you make a Black character don’t make an already written character Black make an original Black character make the character be understood correctly! Don’t make a Fool out of it make an original character😅.

U try be guest on my show

🤣. No really. Like it hasn’t always been this way. Why are you still reading any of these? Any of them or their movies? Why………….

Facts Bro Icon Hardware Vixen Cyborg Amazing man Black Lightning Dr.Mist Bloodywynd Hotspot Aqualad Orpheus A bunch of great characters under utilized if utilized at all

Is there something between black ppl and electricity? There sure is a lot of black characters with electric powers in dc and marvel and why latin characters get fire? 😅😅