COMICS: 'Laura Kinney' Steps Up In Preview of ALL-NEW WOLVERINE #1

I'm honestly really excited for this book. Laura looks awesome in the costume.

Hey, look everyone! Marvel replacing another famous, money making character with a minority! BRILLIANT! Hey, this comic can sell 5 copies like Ms Marvel and Female Thor combined!!! Diversity for diversity sake is a failure. Comics are profitable only when original..Marvel comics division dies in 10 years at the latest.

How... does your mask make your eyes white?!

Every time someone complains about diversity in comics, all I see is...

@Spock0Clock Thank. You.

I don't know about everyone else, but I read comics for the stories, not because a character is a woman or a man or black or white or f*cking green. Who the hell cares? Give me a good story.

Fans act like a character taking up a well-known mantle is some new and reviled thing. I don't see people bitching about Wally West. Or Dick Grayson/Azrael/Comissioner Gordon. Or Bucky Barnes. Those are 'classics'. Why? Cause they had great stories.But god forbid it's a woman taking up the mantle of a well known hero. Nope, too PC for anyone to handle. Who the hell cares? Just give me a good story.

@miklonus X-23 has been her own character for years. Doesn't change who she is just because she takes up the mantle of another hero. It didn't change who Bucky Barnes was when he became Captain America. It didn't change who Wally West was when he became the Flash. Character development is character development, regardless of what mask a character wears. X-23 is defined by more than just a Wolverine costume. If that costume allows for more development for her character and better stories, I'm all in support of that.

People act like this is all permanent forever and ever, when has that EVER been the case in comic books? Maybe people will be encouraged to read more about x-23 from before she was Wolverine...maybe they'll do so after she stops being Wolverine. Why is this such a bad thing? As far as I'm concerned if people are reading these books, that's a good thing. Status quo is boring.

In the end, you are all entitled to your opinions. Doesn't make you wrong. Read whatever it is you want to read. But for me, personally, I'll always choose story over everything.

I miss Wolverine, and I miss X23...

@LEOSTRATOR

The answer for the lack of backlash? Most of those characters are men. ;)

@miklonus Yes, I am indeed succumbing to laziness ;) haha

In all seriousness though, wtf is gonna happen to these characters once the originals come back? If they just disappear into obscurity again, then there's no doubt this was all for naught. Hope they go the Khamela Kahn route and keep her, but I don't really know what they'll rename Wolverine (Logan) into. (And don't give me that crap about OLD MAN LOGAN, 'cause I doubt he's REALLY here to stay)

@LEOSTRATOR

You're not missing anything bud. But don't forget. DC was torched when they made Alan Scott gay. Bigotry is bigotry. I don't think it's anything about "Marvel vs. DC" as youre suggesting. Companies have proven time and time again that story trumps race or gender. Which is why Miles ended up being so well-received after all the stupid backlash.

*Sigh* I think people have a problem with this because (including me) because they do it constantly like Kamala Khan Ms Marvel, Falcon America, Lady Thor, Hong Kong Hulk, Silk, Spider-Gwen?? Like in the last year and a half we've had a surge of all these so called "progressive" characters. It starts to look like a gimmick that you just roll your eyes to after you get to a trans version of Beast.

The other problem is it's inexplicable, doesn't make any sense which makes it look even more like a gimmick.
Miles Morales is cool because he was literally passed the torch by Peter Parker, before Dick Grayson could become Batman, Batman had to DIE! And he had to fight for that right as well, it wasn't handed to him, he earned it. Also he wasn't a random mate of Bruce's or someone Bruce happened to date for a while, he was his portage, his partner, his sidekick and best friend, the relationship was there, no one knows Batman better than Dick Grayson besides Alfred.
Sam Wilson as Cap works too because he's great friends with Cap just like Bucky, but the problem I have is that Sam already has his own identity that they should've merged with Cap and called it Captain Falcon or American Eagle. But it's not a big deal because Captain America is more of a symbol rather than an identity, just like Batman.

Those Legacy characters work because wait for it...wait for it.... they make sense! They were built up for years and years. X-23 what she had a few scraps with Logan, now she's believable as the new Wolverine? Clearly not.
Ms Marvel/Captain Marvel/Spider-Man/Wolverine/Hulk arent symbols, they're identities. And if you take up someone else's identity, you just lose your own and you become a character stuck in their shadow.

You don't see Jaden Smith start calling himself Will Smith do you? Or the new Fresh Prince? When Dr Dre signed Eminem, Eminem became his own thing, he didn't call him self Dr Dre the 2nd. Even She-Hulk is completely different to The Incredible Hulk in many ways. She's her own character. And her story makes sense.

How many people are you gonna have, have the same powers?

Out of all the "New age" "gender swap" "ethnicity change" replacements they have four top teir marvel characters thus far, HERS is the one with the most potential in my opinion.

.......Just why the dialogue like "I'M THE ALL NEW WOLVERINE!"