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August 2, 2013
I sat down and realized the only 3 or 4 heroes black comic-readers can look forward to seeing on the big screen are Blade, BlackPanther, Storm, & Luke Cage. Y rn't there enough positive african-american/minority characters in the forefront of comics? There
Because everyone wants to play it safe, and they think by doing anything other than straight white males, they are not so much expanding the audience, they think they are limiting the audience.
This is what we call cowardice and a lack of imagination.
People forget, but the Blade movies INVENTED the successful Marvel film formula. There are kids all over the world who think John Stewart is THE Green Lantern. Spawn was the number one comic going for a long time and had several successful film adaptations.
It’s ridiculous, it’s irresponsible, it’s embarrassing. Nothing gets better unless people make a deliberate effort.
Black canary once used a shark to fight apes. When will we see King Shark use his deadly throwing canaries to defeat Gorilla Grodd?
At different times, a Black Canary has been a member of the Justice League, Justice Society, JLI and the Birds of Prey! She once wanted to adopt a little girl named Sin!
Adventure!: Can't wait for more
Finally made it into a comic shop last night after months of absence. First thing I did? Snapped up the first 3 issues of The Movement by Gail Simone.
It’s brilliant. I can’t wait for the next issue, can’t wait to see how Virtue and the gang handle the Coral City cops, or the issues of morality…
Thank you!
Once people get over the idea of what they THOUGHT the book was going to be, I think it’s a lot more interesting to see these people struggle with right and wrong.
It’s easy to know what to do when aliens attack in comics, less easy to know what to do when your neighbors attack.
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Wonderful silliness happened on twitter again, once...
Wonderful silliness happened on twitter again, once again instigated by Gail Simone.
So, presenting King Shark in Black Canary’s costume.
NONE OF THIS IS MY FAULT EXCEPT SOME OF IT.
Can King Shark, while wearing his trade mark fishnets, summon a Sharknado with his Shark Cry?
King Shark don’t need no stinking Sharknado. He’s King Shark, he’ll throw HIMSELF at small beach towns.
I'm sort of a new reader -- the first comic I ever saw/touched/read was BoP. I recently read (on the internet, so, a FACT I'm sure) that one of BC's lines "hetero to the BONE" was originally "75% hetero" & it was changed by editorial. It made me curious, h
The editors are blameless on this one, to be honest. It was a really good editor, and not her fault at all.
I had a scene where Talia was sort of just being Talia and the men around her were just agog at her remarkable beauty. And I have Black Canary say something to the effect of how, speaking as someone who was 70% heterosexual, she could stay focused on her task.
No one objected at DC, no one was mad about it that I recall, but it was what we call ‘placeholder dialog,’ meaning that it would be worked out later to get the exact wording right.
I didn’t like the wording I had, it seemed a bit clumsy, and it also felt like an odd time to bring up the possibility of Dinah being bi. So I changed it to another bit of dialog that had the rhythm I wanted.
Which was something about how Dinah was heterosexual to the bone. Right rhythm, wrong sentiment. So that bit of dialog, I revised back immediately to the previous line.
Now, we always, always had a deal where I would get a last look at the lettered proof before sending it to the printer. When I got the proof, it still had the ‘to the bone’ line. So, no big deal, happens all the time, I put the correction in along with other corrections.
But for the only time that I remember in the entire run of the series (it’s happened on other books), the version that got printed was the version BEFORE the final fixes. So I was pretty mortified. Not only did it not show Dinah as bi, it in canon did the exact opposite. My heart sank. If you read the issue, you can see some other errors, this is because the uncorrected penultimate version is the one that went out.
Now, I had a way to fix this, I thought, I had a nifty little plan that worked to explain her comment, but then she was taken out of the book.
I do not believe the editor took that remark out, she is herself a gay woman, a strong advocate for lgbtq rights and characters in comics, and a trusted editor who doesn’t treat creators that way. It just happened that the wrong file went to the printer.
It sucks, but comics are produced by the ticking of a time bomb and sometimes mistakes get made.
Not sure where it got round that this was the editor’s fault, I am positive it wasn’t.
July 31, 2013
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Ryan Choi is THE...
Ryan Choi is THE ATOM
Dang it! Miss this guy!
Any reason for him to be dead, besides being asian ans sort off a sidekick?
None whatsoever, it was just a terrible idea and it was grossly executed, sad to say.
I tried to bring him back to be Barbara’s college boyfriend in flashback, no go yet.
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