So, is a creator getting to write a book starring a character he created is a natural outgrowth of the industry's systemic racism, or is having a black woman star in Marvel's flagship solo title that outgrowth?

So, to be clear, who is the "target" of the complaints about not wanting to see Brian Bendis write a comic book?

That was Bucky's thing, too. "Ugh, I really don't want to be Cap…but I'm not gonna let anyone else do it!"

Targeting a specific person who has done literally nothing wrong in this situation is whining. Speaking about the systemic issues is entirely valid.

Whining about an individual creator getting to write his own characters has nothing to do with "real discrimination." It's masturbatory internet outrage that doesn't actually help anyone.

No one's "musing on that outrage." I was just explaining to you, repeatedly, the uncomfortable implications of the argument to not let Bendis write his own character…it just took you over two hours to understand it.

Seriously, who's "having vapors over its likelihood"?

Ultimate Peter Parker died. Miles is in 616 now.

"Black Spider-Man" and Ms. Marvel?

The one where they don't let Bendis write the character he created in the storyline he had invented, and instead hand Riri over to someone with the "right" genes?

…except the exact one you're arguing for?

And the best way to achieving that world is to work within the confines of reality.

Ah, okay. I guess he fucked up by basing his opinions in the reality of the comic book industry in 2016, rather than how things would work, in an imagined world where the vast majority of comic book writers weren't white men.

Bendis is on the shortlist because he's willing to take one for the team and write events and books like GotG, despite having no interest in them, precisely because Marvel lets him do stuff like this and Miles.

Unless you're talking Kamala or Miles, the two most successful new characters of the last 20 years or so.

And they built his audience by having him recur in X-Force.

Of course, having an established creator see if there's an audience for comics about black women is precisely the first step a company would take if they plan on hiring more black female writers.

I read the first two issues of King's Batman!

…huh?

I can buy her thinking that no one else deserves to wear it, though.