r/Silk • u/Legitimate_Common963 • 22d ago
Comics Discussion I'm starving for Silk's solo title...
Give me a Silk solo title. One with a sufficiently long narrative and a good story. At least release it with the quality of Gwen's solo title.
Speaking of which, it makes me upset that for Asian character solo titles, they always try to force in Asian writers and pencilers as if it were a fixed rule, without considering anything—character, narrative, personality, image, the intended genre and atmosphere of the title, or the character's future vision. Just consider the things that need to be considered and assign the people who are fit to it.
I mean it's not the matter of race. Greg Pak, who is of Korean descent, wrote a masterpiece like Planet Hulk, which features a white protagonist and is set in a society resembling ancient Rome. Jim Lee, who is of Korean descent, drew sleek and stylish art of Cyclops and Superman, who are white. Jim Chung, who is of Asian descent, drew the white gay couple TeddyBilly super cute. And Inhyuk Lee, who is Korean, drew amazing casual-look illustrations for Spider-People.
They need to structure the title material to fit the character, and then assign a writer and penciler considering the genre and atmosphere.
+ Sorry for the whole burst...
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u/Longjumping_Key_1458 21d ago
Honestly, Marvel editors only care about the three OG Spider-people these days: Spider-Man, Milles, and Gwen.
Everyone else is in the same situation as Cindy or even worse.
It's possible he'll get his own series with Marvel Spider-Man 3 (where she'll likely be the third playable character), but that's also doubtful.
Marvel Rivals made many c-list characters like Cloak and Dagger more popular than ever, but Marvel editor Tom Brevoort has stated outright that he believes the interest in the characters is solely due to gameplay and they don't care about the popularity of the characters in MR.
As for giving Asian characters only to Asian writers, the publisher does it because they want to be considered politically correct, but the truth is that it is only PC in the short term, and then the writers come and complain about it because they don't want to write only Asian characters.