Are you sure about that? Perhaps it would be more recognizable if I said the name "Jesse Chambers" or even "Jesse Wells" who is considered one of the major parts of the Flash Family. She even makes an appearance on the Flash Tv show along with Wally thought with some slight changes to her origin.
Max Mercury, outside of teaching Wally West, doesn't really do much either. I would say they both have equal contribution to the Flash story and both having great impact on Wally's life. Granted, if you follow Barry Allen they don't do much, but she still plays a heavy role in Wally's story overall.
That's... huh, yeah, actually I do recognize that a bit more than the superhero identity. I guess I remember Max more because I remember him mentoring Bart before disappearing into time or the Speed Force or whatever it ended up being (I like Flash but I don't follow closely enough to know all the twists).
Funny because I "know" more about Blue Beetle than I do Miles Morales. I read some of Miles stuff, but maybe that is the problem...it has been done before, but with more originality.
I guess so, but it's not really an either/or thing for me. I love both characters (and wish one of Blue Beetles solos would actually freaking catch on for once, I don't know why more people don't read them). I feel like they're different enough in environment, upbringing and so on. But if you don't like him, you don't like him.
Blue Beetle, Static Shock (I highly enjoy him and kind of wish we get a live action of him. A good live-action), and a few others kind of have very similar concepts.
I genuinely don't think Static's ever going to be a real "thing" again, just due to rights issues. I'm pretty sure he's still technically owned by Milestone and any time DC wanted to use him it was on license during the times Milestone was functionally defunct. I heard Milestone's trying to make a comeback as an entity again and want to get ongoings with Static and a couple others off the ground, but we haven't heard from Hudlin and Cowyn since they talked about it. Maybe, if that doesn't work out, they might make some deals with DC again, but I don't know how likely that is. I remember Dwayne MacDuffie sounding a little bitter about the fact that despite licensing the line itself back near the end of the aughts the only character they seemed interested in was Static. I don't know how the surviving folks feel.
Blue Beetle's a maybe, though. Geoff Johns loves him and has talked about wanting to get something going with him outside of comics for a while now. I remember there was an effects test done. I wouldn't be surprised if, with the DC streaming service, he either ends up with his own show or ends up a cast member on Titans eventually, if only for a while. Hell, that might even get him in front of enough eyeballs that a solo might take.
I have just seen it all before and want to see something else.
I mean, you can. No one's forcing you to read it. And fair or not, while you and I may love Static and Blue Beetle, they're C tier DC or DC adjacent properties that don't always manage to hold down either a book or steady readership. It sucks, but Marvel's dominated the superhero conversation in pop culture for a while and a black/hispanic kid showing that different side of life is just unfortunately going to hit more people who want or need to read about characters like that than DC. DC may have made up some ground in comics themselves post Rebirth, but Marvel's still the darling in the larger mainstream, at least in film (their animated and TV output has often been anemic and questionable, Netflix stuff aside). Much as I prefer DC to Marvel, I accepted that a long time ago.
What's even funnier is your description of Miles reads very much like Jon Kent or Superman's son.
Does it? I mean, I've read all of the Tomasi Superman run in trade, or all that's out in trade right now, at any rate. I don't think they're that similar a character at all, much less my discussion of Miles. Jon's more a kid raised on a farm struggling with his powers and the shadow of his near godlike father, who is himself dealing with the struggles of parenthood, especially when you're both superheroes. Very, very different flavor from any of the Miles Spider-Man books. Especially since that book frequently got weird in a fun way with the two ending up on Dinosaur Island with the last survivor of the Losers, dealing with aliens and multiverse threats.
I know we have gotten off topic with this
We definitely have, but I'd hope the mods/Kages could understand, as I also personally feel like there's only so much left to say about Naruto that hasn't already been said, anyway.
Besides, ain't the first time I've derailed a thread or two with superheroes.
Edited by dl316bh, 26 December 2018 - 10:40 PM.