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DC Comics is About to Give Us a Black Batman
Bleeding Cool ^
| 9/2/2019
| Rich Johnston
Posted on 09/03/2019 3:16:50 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: bkopto
Literally every single white male character is being converted to either a female or black (or non-white) male. Apparently the writers don't have the ability to create new characters.
To: Dr. Sivana
How often do they take a non-white-male character and rebirthed it as a heterosexual white male? Can you name one? I used to collect, and I cannot.
Socio-politically, it is a big deal - as they intend, and as reflected by the accommodating values of the young people subverted by such entertainment.
It turns out the “Seduction of the Innocent” [1954] was more accurate and prescient than the leftist media would admit - just as with Joseph McCarthy.
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posted on
09/03/2019 4:51:45 PM PDT
by
YogicCowboy
("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
To: YogicCowboy
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posted on
09/03/2019 4:52:16 PM PDT
by
YogicCowboy
("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
To: bkopto
Virtually everything in entertainment is socio-political redistribution: away from Caucasian, conservative, Christian, to anything that is not.
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posted on
09/03/2019 4:53:54 PM PDT
by
YogicCowboy
("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
To: bkopto
To: YogicCowboy
How often do they take a non-white-male character and rebirthed it as a heterosexual white male? Can you name one? I used to collect, and I cannot.
All comic book superheroes were white during the Golden Age of comics (unfortunately, Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern, was ret-conned as a homo a few years back), so there were no characters to go from Black or Asian to White.
There were only a handful of female super-heroines, mostly knock-offs of the male version (Supergirl, Mary Marvel) but also Black Canary, Lady Liberty and Phantom Lady. As 85% of the comic reading audience was white boys, and 10% white girls, this made sense. It also made sense that the girls also had perfect figures.
One notable exception is the original Red Tornado was a heavy set working woman named Ma Hunkel. Much later on, the Red Tornado returns as a male android.
Non-whites were sometimes relegated to the role of sidekick, the Green Hornet's Kato being the most famous example, and he goes back to the '30s. His heritage changed depending on foreign policy. The Silver Age Green Lantern had an Eskimo sidekick named Pieface.
This is all off the top of my head.
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posted on
09/03/2019 5:17:36 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
To: bkopto
Just another sign that it's a dying medium and genre.
Chances don't breathe new life into it. They just reveal its exhaustion.
Getting upset about changes only reinforces the illusion that there's some life in the medium/genre.
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posted on
09/03/2019 5:22:06 PM PDT
by
x
To: YogicCowboy
Bill Gaines, creator of EC's 'New Trend", Tales From The Crypt, and MAD (among others)
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posted on
09/03/2019 5:25:03 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
To: bkopto
Will an Asian one be next? Gotta be PC, ya know!
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posted on
09/03/2019 5:26:02 PM PDT
by
Exit148
( (Loose Change Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!110)
To: bkopto
Oh goody! Can Whitekanda be far behind?
To: bkopto
You sayin’ Batman cain’t be black?
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posted on
09/03/2019 5:35:34 PM PDT
by
OKSooner
(Bill Barr = "Brownie")
To: bkopto
Yeah.
No thanks.
All this stupid crap is not groundbreaking smart storytelling.
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posted on
09/03/2019 5:42:18 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: bkopto
would that movies based on comic books and graphic novels (is there a difference?)came to an end. However, hollyweird has long been out of ideas and so we have the current state of affairs.
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posted on
09/03/2019 5:57:30 PM PDT
by
txnativegop
(The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
To: bkopto
Rev. Al or JE$$e HI_Jackson as MOONbatman works for me.
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posted on
09/03/2019 6:46:20 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
To: wally_bert
They will rework Dick Tracy I guess. Big Dick Tracy.
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posted on
09/03/2019 7:29:07 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: bkopto
That is bleeding cool. The only thing better would be a male to female chimera. I mean transgender. Yesan African female-looking Batman.
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posted on
09/03/2019 7:32:52 PM PDT
by
RArtfulogerDodger
(peace, Love, and Joy To All, Especially Obama and Democrats)
To: bkopto
He will be the hero we deserve, but not the one we need. Or asked for, or wanted.
While in Doomsday Clock, DC Comics unauthorized sequel to Watchmen, the new Rorschach is a black man, and son of the original Rorschachs psychiatrist.
This is the only thing that interests me in the article. Rorschach is one of my favorite characters, and his battle with his psychiatrist was one of the great superhero fights ever, even if it was only a battle of ideologies and viewpoints, instead of fists. I'd be interested in seeing his son become a costumed vigilante.
To: bkopto
To: bkopto
Will he have a crossover issue with White Lightning?
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posted on
09/03/2019 7:57:58 PM PDT
by
Fedora
To: bkopto
Why not a Black Asian Latino Female Transgender Fluid Batman?
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