X-Men solo's that aren't Wolverine or (his offspring) or stuff like Cable/Deadpool don't last long. Cyclops and Storms solo runs in recent years didn't last too long either
the cyclopse one went off corse from what was mentioned in cable itwas supposed to deal with his issue with his merger with apoclypes and him possilbybecoming evil and the xmen have to stop that from happening but they enew wrtier screwed it up on purpose and they they dump the story line on colossu later.
X-Men character solos aren't draws like they were in the nineties to early noughties. You couldn't do a title like X-Man and have it run for 75 issues or Mutant X which ran for 32 issues these days.
Not completly true, it's just they have bad chose's made by both editor and certain up and coming writer's wants. and potential new readers don't know these comic's exist,
When ever there's an exciting thing done with the character set up wise they always want to reject to do their own thing and it fails. storm shouldn't have been canceld
as to the recent shut down of solo's , I have a feeling this is the result of many factor's and not ju7st one . One of the major factor's is outlets like chains of store like how you see certain restorant chai's like wendy's or Micky d's. yes we have the web. and there are some certain library's that take in comic's. but not all. there needs to be physical access again and what matter to the comic publisher to keep a comic serise going is sales other wise their boss' won't accepting lasting long. certain prices need to come down.
it's the decline of comic's & magazine store 's that have comic's as an addtion that are diging out every where. and people don'e go out searching for them any more. and there litter to no advertizing ( I mean real tv & radio advertizing) like commercials like you'd see for music cd's (or use to be )or some certain type of games . and even in some of those like the latter they are starting to have certain issues with the latter in that rival medium.
there need to be a resurgence of the the comic or specialty shops .
and only solotion I can think of is to have an amuzment funzone. aplace where movie theaters the concept of arcades and comic shop al added with the concept to pic up blue ray of movies and games that rival game stop too. All colided into one place. and the only way that will work is also with the decline of certain malls being to fun centers/stores too.
Not surprised Luke Cage got cancelled. Lots of people said the comic was pretty boring. B List characters can't survive with middle of the road comics in today's market.
yes this is also one of the many factor's it's ether that it's boring or as I said when ever they do have good exciting direction for a character for some reason the up and coming writer refuses to do it and put's it on another character. which is very strange and weird of them and the series dies as a mini series. and they stupidly ask the question why? when they know they veered of path withtheir first start after the lead in, with seach for cyclops.
there's alot of factor's at play that need solving the biggest factor is outlets as I said. they keep thinking an over load of new title's will solve issue's . if there no place for new potentian reader to get them most of those new titles will die no matter who you aim them at.
Them making new comic isn't a bad idea. but the issue is getting new people that might be interested to find them easly. you need to tell your potential new costomores where there's an available place to pick it up beside's the web. and there's the issue of afordability.
And more importantly as you said interestingly there are serious poor chose made with certain cheracters that the writers know very well they should & shouldnt do with them, but they always choose not to do them and it's not good (for us fan's) to ennable them when they don't do it.
they know the building block's to make heroes great, especilly for solo titles an interesting path for them to take and what they stand for and a rogues gallery some of them have one's that are there with the latter. but cause the writer's have this refusesule they don't last.
this goes for the X books you mentioned cyclops( the older orginal version)book failing. he has enemies he should go after or keepa constant visual over. he has lots of reason to go after apoclypse force 's and d'ken when ever he shows up. but the writers won't allow it.
and the best part is they are persnal. and they have examples like cable intheir own reel house.
that's part of the issue there. he should be making sure they never harm people like they did to both him and his fsamily members again. and lastly personal motivation. that connected to it. that's what hurting them. right now. there more among those factors. But they go the wrong direction with things.
oh yest direction is another one of those factor's too.
Also lasty each title is supposed to find their own audiance. they shouldn't all only cator to the same type of people all the time. there can be solo titles and spin off's of the Xbooks but they shouldn't always only have people that read the team book as their audinces.
find your audiance. and stay with them. make sure it's a good fun read. let the books have their own identy/ but don't forget their buiding block's they are fundmental and will die with out them. super hero book won't last with out certain things and they know what they need.
no excuse's/ enabiling. if the books needs it put it in . especially if they already have personal enemies the team books or have people that have harmed them that they should be so. cause they went after their family members. Freaking use them.
