The New Avengers can get cancelled, retconed and rebooted just like everything else if sales are not sufficient to pay the creative teams rent money.
We have to remember that Black Panther has been so deconstructed and maligned that the unfans could still undermine the new direction and also be mindful of the diehard fans that were lost along the way.
There has been no official apology or appeasement from Marvel on behalf of what has been done to regain those fans... You know a Black Panther panel at Comic-con to address these issues would be nice but instead they believe that throwing him in the middle of the meta plot is the answer.
It is not a good business practice to spit on fans and then think placing him in the mix of big things makes it okay sometimes you have to have some make up sex along with the "I'm sorry baby, I was wrong" romance in there somewhere.
Don't you think it is weird that most of the Black Panther news does not center around making up for all the terrible things done to this character?
This is why for the future I advocate a "Point Man" to troubleshoot the loss of fans and the promotion of the new direction not just let's wait for Wednesday comic book delivery day and let the issues speak for themselves.
If Marvel or Disney just showed a little more TLC with this character they could get more than their money back with a smile and have a nice day attitude than hiding in the bunker waiting for another limbo to jump off and shrug their shoulders like they don't get it.
Some of you need to go to Comic-con and see how much gleeful effort is put into Spiderman, Batman or Star Wars with their extravagant promotions... These characters don't just sell themselves there is some form of hype that moves the sales revenue.
Black Panther's future should include high definition trailers, toys, animated shorts, coffee mugs, women dressed like the Doras passing out flyers at comic book conventions, men dressed like Black Panther at Disney theme parks taking pics with kids to ease the racial tensions over his controversial name... DUH!
Instead we have Hickman every other Wednesday of the month issue delivery and no real Black Panther promo of his appearance in the New Avengers which still has the option to switch back to Stark or Reed leading as the book continues 6 months down the line... We've been down that road before.
People don't plan to fail... They fail to plan!
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