>Here’s an analogy that may help explain why some of your fans are voicing their displeasure about your new line up.  Tom Brevoort has been a long time employee of Marvel.  He’s effective and well respected by his peers and the talent he oversees.  But Marvel determines it needs more diversity in its workforce.  But, instead of hiring new employees to meet this need, they decide to replace Tom with someone else to diversify.  The gender or race may be different, but it doesn’t matter.  Marvel has its all new, all different Tom Brevoort.  They present the new Tom to the world and say this is now the real Tom Brevoort.  The name plate and badge still read “Tom Brevoort”.  However, Marvel is shocked when Tom’s peers and the talent (and his fans) are unhappy with the new Tom.  Marvel thinks all of these people are prejudiced because they don’t accept the all new, all different Tom.  But, they’re not.  They just want their effective, well respected Tom back. 

Hopefully, this illustrates why some of us are frustrated with what you’ve done and will be doing with your line up.  We want exciting, well written, solidly illustrated stories with characters we’ve grown up with and supported.  Diversity? Sure, achieve it by adding new characters.  Just don’t replace the ones we’ve been following and expect us to simply embrace it.>

This is exactly the kind of argument that Dwayne McDuffie was talking about in that interview.