“Black”: A Graphic Novel That Asks, “What If Only Black People Got Superpowers?”
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i dnt kno about superpowers
but we do have unique advantageous differences about us.....n what do we do with them? -
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This is a great time to be alive.
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has already been done.... it's called x men...
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Yeah its going to be very X-Men-ish but thats why I said its all up to the approach. No idea is that original but how you spin it is.
Even "all black people are superheroes," isn't original. There are comics featuring melanin theory as its basis for superhuman powers etc but as an artist you need to put your own spin on it to make it your own.
Thats what I'm looking for here, I want to see how they do it. -
@zzombie dude the xmen was based on the civil rights movement... professor x was "Martin Luther King" and magnito was "Malcolm X"... that's public knowledge...
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damobb2deep wrote: »@zzombie dude the xmen was based on the civil rights movement... professor x was "Martin Luther King" and magnito was "Malcolm X"... that's public knowledge...
No ? but the premise of the original x-men is very very different from what i think is being presented in this comic because most of the x men are white -
we can all talk ? but who's donating to the kickstarter. I'm puttin in about $200.
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damobb2deep wrote: »@zzombie dude the xmen was based on the civil rights movement... professor x was "Martin Luther King" and magnito was "Malcolm X"... that's public knowledge...
No ? but the premise of the original x-men is very very different from what i think is being presented in this comic because most of the x men are white
I was talking about the concept... the premise could be different.. I said the concept was still nice... -
where there facebook at?
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They'll treat ? like X-men
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cant find this anywhere online to cop
but this is as of the 9th
https://www.facebook.com/io9.com/videos/10154687181411694/?permPage=1&utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_twitter&utm_source=io9_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow -
We already do.
-Survived 400 years of the brutal practice of slavery
-Ability to "live" forever (see Henrietta Lacks) and HeLa cells
-Ability to use echolocation like a bat (see blind dude Ben Underwood)
-Ability to STILL attempt to live in peace & harmony with people who have tried to wipe us out since the first slave ship arrived. -
This is awesome
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Need to get this
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cant find this anywhere online to cop
but this is as of the 9th
https://www.facebook.com/io9.com/videos/10154687181411694/?permPage=1&utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_twitter&utm_source=io9_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
You had to be a donor of their kick starter to get a copy. I got the first chapter in digital but they are suppose to be sending me the graphic novel. It hasn't been released to the public yet. -
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the dukester wrote: »We already do.
-Survived 400 years of the brutal practice of slavery
-Ability to "live" forever (see Henrietta Lacks) and HeLa cells
-Ability to use echolocation like a bat (see blind dude Ben Underwood)
-Ability to STILL attempt to live in peace & harmony with people who have tried to wipe us out since the first slave ship arrived.
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Art is dope
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Isn't this basically the underlying plot of The XMen?
The discrimination right down to the use of a racial slur with "muties"
Edit: damn I shoulda read the thread first... ? already made this point -
Dathroat2deep prob dead AF huh
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Swiffness! wrote: »I always look for good world-building in my fiction and fuuuuuuuuck this sound like some GREAT world-building. Stan Lee drew on the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Struggle when he created Mutants and the X-Men - this is like that taken to its logical, politically charged conclusion.
My biggest concern is the art so far......................ehhhhhhhh...........................Reminds me of the milestone universe I read as a kid. Black kids and gang members got powers from a mysterious explosion.
yeah my aunt was a top executive at DC in the 90s so i got sent tons of DC books including Milestone. Hardware was an interesting ultraviolent take on Iron Man, Static was the one that blew up ofc, but imho ICON was always the best series and the one that deserved the TV/Movie franchise.
The setup was just too GOAT - alien crash lands in antebellum south, black slave finds him first, the ship changes his appearance to match "the locals", said alien fights in the Civil War and other black struggles throughout history while faking his death multiple times. It's like Wolverine's backstory, but better. The line where his sidekick goes "So that explains how you're a Black Republican - you're from outer space!" still cracks me up lol. They did a great job of juxtaposing his old-head black conservative views with the sidekick's liberal black militancy and their back & forth banter was great. He peacefully surrenders to police scared of him and she's like "I bet this doesn't happen to Superman..." yeah, i need to dig that trade paperback outta storage, that was Dwayne McDuffie's magnum opus R.I.P
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