Minorities and Other Issues in Comics Thread/Community IV

[StoneGold]

Oslo Guy was just a racist that is why he did it. He was perfectly sane.

What I am saying is when it's a white male they immediatly start talking about mental health when it's not a white males then it's something wrong with the culture of the shooter.

Which is why there's no talk about the evils of gun culture, video games, etc. going on right now?


And why when Vtech got shot up, there wasn't a pretty heavy focus on Seung-Hui Cho's mental instability?

[Froggy]

It has some sketches and promo material from the days it was at AiT/PlanetLar( this comp was done through Image ) and Wood does the introduction



Yes it does, I wish Rob G wasn't busy outside of comics since Wood said he'd love to do another Couriers book but he won't without Rob

That sounds pretty cool but I already got the original issues and christmas is in a week
I already gave santa my list bro!

[7thangel]

just watched the pilot for Deception (formerly Infamous) starring Megan Good as the lead. it was alright, i liked it. the flashbacks may get annoying real quick if they keep using it.

you can watch it at the official page http://www.nbc.com/deception/

if you're not in the states and don't have a proxy server that can fool the country restrictions, the usual streaming sites should have it

[Jabare]

The new Young Justice trailer is up and a certain black teen finally speaks. Kids are rejoicing everywhere!

http://legendofjustice.tumblr.com/post/37983739935

And another MIA black guy in DC appears-Grant Morrison's Manhattan Guardian.

well since Kaldur got off'd someone needed to replace him

[Kasper Cole]

well since Kaldur got off'd someone needed to replace him

Kaldur was not "off'd" He was definitely left in bad shape, but he wasn't killed or anything.

[Jabare]

Kaldur was not "off'd" He was definitely left in bad shape, but he wasn't killed or anything.

The man is brain dead

[Tadhg]

I know that some of us posters are fans of the Dresden Flies and "Cold Days" has been out for less than a month officially.

However, not all is well in Harry-Land, especially in terms of representation and messages being sent through the story.

http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/20...r-book-14.html

http://arsmarginal.wordpress.com/201...-who/#comments

I'm only 12% through the book and everything being said here happens in stark detail.

If you haven't checked out Ben Aaronovitch's Peter Grant books, you should. The first is Rivers of London(Midnight Riot for the US release). For Urban fantasy it's much better in terms of representation, it's less rapey, and Aaronovitch's London has more feeling than Butcher's Chicago.

[7thangel]

i thought i watched every ep. of Young Justice before the 'hiatus', thanks to y'all, i realized i didn't see the last ep.

edit: maybe this needs to be in spoiler quotes


spoilers:

despite what some in the thread in the tv section have said, the only one to recover from her ruthless mind attacks was Simon, maybe because she hadn't perfected it yet and his own powers. we'll see if he recovers

end of spoilers

[Genki Sudo]

i thought i watched every ep. of Young Justice before the 'hiatus', thanks to y'all, i realized i didn't see the last ep.

edit: maybe this needs to be in spoiler quotes


spoilers:

despite what some in the thread in the tv section have said, the only one to recover from her ruthless mind attacks was Simon, maybe because she hadn't perfected it yet and his own powers. we'll see if he recovers

end of spoilers

I would hope but I don't know, there's also the facts that

spoilers:

Superboy knows what she's been doing but has been written as keeping that info to himself making him guilty as he could have helped stopped her back when she did it to the aliens I'm name blanking on

end of spoilers

[DattaBoy]

Greg Weisman has said Kaldur is one of his favorite characters and not just because he created him for the show. I suspect that his story is not done and we don't know the extant of M'Ganns powers...

[The Once And Forever]

I know that some of us posters are fans of the Dresden Flies and "Cold Days" has been out for less than a month officially.

However, not all is well in Harry-Land, especially in terms of representation and messages being sent through the story.

http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/20...r-book-14.html

http://arsmarginal.wordpress.com/201...-who/#comments

I'm only 12% through the book and everything being said here happens in stark detail.

Dresden notes every attractive female's figure because he's a pig. He has noted this. Others have noted this.

When Butcher writes from Murphy or Marcone's perception, we see much less of this because they aren't pigs.

I haven't read the Codex, but from what I'm told it is also low on that.

So the issue is with Harry, but anyone that doesn't know that he's a sex-straved caveman is purposefully ignoring that Bob took his new personality explicitly from Harry.

As for representation...I don't know. 2/3s of the initial Knights were minority (one an EXTREME minority), when we see random Chicagoan civs, there is good rep (Rawlings and the black emp spring to mind).

Edit: I don't know if you're at the Titania conversation yet, but it is every bit as awful as everyone says it is, that is by far my least favorite conversation in the Dresden Files, even worse than select dialogue from Twilight.

[Michael P]

I would appreciate not being spoiled on the new DF book, thanks.

[babybro]

Well, The Shield casting is complete, and surprise, there is no men POC in sight. There are two chinese women though on the cast, be as it may. With that said, with Joss Wheldon I was suspecting not to see a POC male and seeing as it confirm my beliefs, I can now skip the series. The upside to this is every time I see a show ending up like this, the more it pushes me to get my product out as fast as I can with the best quality, because as long as hollywood and the media doesn't provide some catering to minorities (especially minority males)
I can fulfill that niche that's desperately needed.

[Kieran_Frost]

Well, The Shield casting is complete, and surprise, there is no men POC in sight. There are two chinese women though on the cast, be as it may. With that said, with Joss Wheldon I was suspecting not to see a POC male and seeing as it confirm my beliefs, I can now skip the series. The upside to this is every time I see a show ending up like this, the more it pushes me to get my product out as fast as I can with the best quality, because as long as hollywood and the media doesn't provide some catering to minorities (especially minority males)
I can fulfill that niche that's desperately needed.

On the plus side, a series with 50/50 men/women, and two POC; and two Brits (YEY!!!)... that's still good diversity. I'm very excited, esp. since Ming-Na is in it (love her).

[ECarrion777]

The thoughts, opinions, facts, and feelings expressed in the "minorities and other issues in comics threads" are diverse, and for the most part well said and respectful. The energy on the thread is respectful and welcomes different opinions.

You all do amazing work on this thread and I enjoy stopping by and reading your thoughts.

Keep up the Dialogue.

Sincerely,
-Enrique Carrion
Writer/Creator of Image Comics vescell