Since I don't really do much on Twitter, bringing the Zinda Blake discussion over here :) I am DYING to see a live action Zinda Blake and since Legends of Tomorrow is built on a premise of time travel, it would be so easy to add her to their roster for at

Here’s the thing. The characters that have the most potential appeal to non-comics buyers are often not the best sellers or the biggest forces in comics. Superman did well, Deadpool will do better, and Superman has a ton of books while Deadpool has been canceled for low sales several times.

Harley Quinn, much of her appeal came from and to non-comics readers. She was more popular at Hot Topic than in comic shops until just recently.

Sometimes a character has that breakout potential. There are a few comics properties that I think have that. I think the LEGION could be a huge thing if they did a non-animated series. I mean bigger than Galactica, just a huge phenomenon, because a big crew of attractive teen aliens with powers and star ships sounds like it’s very much of THIS time.

I feel the same way about Lady Blackhawk. There’s so much love for that era of glamour and moxie, and no one presents that more unapologetically than Zinda, AND the idea of a time-lost warrior pilot gal, I just feel that she could have that Harley Quinn level of appeal. She was a huge hit in Bop, she was just supposed to be the PILOT but she became popular and people wanted more. 

Her look is killer, her attitude is fierce. If she had a tv series, it would be big. Girls would be wearing her shirts everywhere.

In some cases, the comics appeal and the tv appeal are different animals. 

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