Luke Cage & Power Man are among them. Lessee blacksploitation meets kungfu chopsocky. About 35 years too late to be relevant.
What next? Disco Dazzler?
She looks like Orion.
Posted on 11/08/2013 2:41:02 PM PST by nickcarraway
Kamala Khan isn’t your average New Jersey teenager battling a cultural identity crisis. She has superpowers. And she’s here to smash the stereotype of young Muslim-American women.
Marvel has a comic book superhero named Kamala Khan, a Muslim teen from New Jersey. This idea is refreshing. It’s important. It reminds me of the late ‘60s film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. That was a revolutionary story about interracial marriage in America at a time when it was taboo. Like that film, Kamala will shatter taboos, too. Ms. Marvel (Kamala’s alter ego) will open the eyes of a new generation of comic book readers to the mostly unseen, unknown complexities of being a Muslim-American woman.
During the last decade, the media has sometimes portrayed Muslims as the villains. As someone said after 9/11 “The only good Muslims are dead Muslims.” Rightwing media outlets and political opinion-formers have sometimes played a delirious role in promoting—and giving platforms—to ex-Muslims who not only hate their former religion, but advocate a “war on Islam” as if it's a singular entity and as if a war on a religion is feasible or winnable. This poisoned public space is the background against which many young Muslims are growing up.
Only recently have we stopped ignoring the voices that have been risking their lives by demanding reforms in the Muslim world. It took brave people like Pakistan’s young Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for advocating for girls education, and sacrificial leader Benazir Bhutto, who was educated in the West, went back to her country, covered her head in respect of her religion, and still said that religion should not be dominating politics.
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Marvel would have gone into the dustbin of history by now without those successful movies, they literally banked everything on the films
Trademarks and eternal copyrights have saved Big Media from biting the dust. Crapital Records, RCA, Columbia, MGM, Warner Brothers, Disney, ALL OF THE GIANTS would be dead now if they had to ONLY survive on their current product.
They have a monopoly position trafficking in works they had ZERO part in and the creators like Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko (who still lives) got “Jack” sh!t. So much for “extend the copyright so the creators get paid”.
A culture of corruption. They bought the legislation they sought.
Yep.
No new ideas in decades.
Now they are going to start remaking old sitcoms I hear.
ugh
Luke Cage & Power Man are among them. Lessee blacksploitation meets kungfu chopsocky. About 35 years too late to be relevant.
What next? Disco Dazzler?
She looks like Orion.
lol
I remember the old Spiderman/Captain America live action shows, I think from the early 80’s. They were really really bad in a bad campy way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Spider-Man_%28TV_series%29
lol
in a Turkish prison bathhouse?
Saddam Hussein supposedly made a Turkish prison bathhouse film around 1968. You can find references still online to it but none of the supposed images or frame composites.
lol
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