![]() In the opening pages, two young Black children are being hunted by a group of white adults. ![]() One example is in the opening of X-men: God Loves, Man Kills. ![]() ![]() Fun fact #130: The mutant Dazzler was originally designed to be a Black woman, until one of the higher-ups at Marvel demanded she be white instead).īut the comics that impacted me the most were those that attempted to abandon the metaphor in favor of the literal. As a minority group and underrepresented community, mutants were a way that writers could address race-related issues despite not having many Black characters in their pages (we could blame this on editorial mandates and marketing that dictates what comic writers can/cannot do with these characters or what new characters they can create. ![]() Gary Jackson: I’ve read comic books since I was nine years old, and even as a child I understood that characters like The Uncanny X-men were intended to function as an allegory for race, even if I didn’t see myself directly represented by those characters (Ororo Munroe aka Storm is a notable exception since she was the single Black person on the team for the longest time, and maybe one day I’ll write about my first experience reading her in the pages of The Uncanny X-men). West Branch: What made you decide to write through the lens of superheroes and how have you used that platform to explore nuances of race? ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |