CFP: Aspiring racist comic book writer and McArthur genius grant recipient Ta-Nehisi Coates’ latest bid for comic book social justice sold so badly that even Marvel couldn’t justify keeping it afloat. And Marvel will keep anything social justice afloat. Maybe Coates needed more Muslims.
Black Panther & The Crew focuses on the title character who is joined by other black superheros like Storm, Luke Cage and Manifold. Set in Harlem, the superheros try to fight police brutality in a city dominated by robotic cops. The gang also looks into the death of a character named Ezra Keith, a civil rights activists who died in police custody.
This exciting premise, strangely enough, didn’t sell well. There are plenty of black people who buy comics. But Coates’ market has never been black people. It’s white lefties and apparently they don’t buy enough comics. Or maybe Coates’ turgid prose is even worse in comic form. more here
Marvel…my beloved Marvel….how low you have fallen.
How many black thugs can read?
…how DARE they drag Storm and Luke Cage, to legitimately great characters, into this bullsh-t. I’m glad it failed. This is just as horrid sounding as when they made Iron Man into a little black girl. > > [I kid you not.]
Never read comics as a kid, too poor. I had this awesome thing
called a library card which allowed me to read almost anything
I wanted.
When will they learn that SJWs don’t pull out their wallets for anything?
Lots of BLM comics moving off the shelf. Unfortunately, few of them were paid for.
I think it would be interesting to see BFH critique the quality of both Ardian Syaf and Ta-Nehisi Coates work. We can all mock their ideas, but one comic artist giving an educated opinion of their talent would carry more weight.
@Left coast Dan
Not so, Starbucks and bandannas.
@T, I guess the abstaining from soap and hair care allows them plenty for weed.
@Will, Read? Hell they can’t even figure out the pictures.
The only anti-cop comix available when I was young came out of Berkeley and sold as undergrounds. I still have a big pile of them.