As times changes, little things remind you that most people don't move with the times. Take the news about the biracial Spider-Man. Since the announcement, some folks have let their foolishness show. Brian Michael Bendis, writer at Marvel Comics was thrilled about the change, but others... Well, basically not so thrilled.
Over on the website Bleeding Cool, they decided to publish some of the more “enlightening” comments from the USA Today story in one of their Tuesday posts. The comments ranged from bashing the need to always be politically correct, to complaints over the comic books direction and the rage over the killing of the white Peter Parker so that Morales could replace him.Wow, I guess this person still see White is Good, Red/Black/Yellow are BAD! I never thought comic fans were this backwards. I've always believe geeks were better than most people. I guess not.
With several comic-based movies taking liberty when it comes to the race of their supportive characters (i.e. Nick Fury played by Samuel L. Jackson, Perry White being played by Laurence Fishburne), it is apparent that supporting roles are the only roles not susceptible to such a huge backlash. However, making the “minority” a main character is still seen as unacceptable.
As one commenter responded:
“Peter Parker could not be whiter. A black boy under the mask just don’t look right. This opens up a whole new story line with a whole new set of problems. Who is going to believe a black man in a mask is out for the good of man kind?”
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5 comments:
Not surprised. And no they are not happy about Laurence Fishburne as Perry White. Nor were they all too happy about Michal Clark Duncan playing Kingpin, but that came from BOTH sides of the fence. At least with Samuel, there is an actual Black Nick Fury that is based on Samuel Jackson in the Ultimate comics. Problem is the fans wanted the original "true" Nick Fury not the new black one. Perry White is just a switch out for the sake of switch out like Heimdall in Thor. An attempt to add some color to an otherwise all white cast. Even the comic companies are realizing that this all white world of heroes is getting ridic to the multi ethnic consumer base they want to reach.
See, I don't understand the anger over this. It's not like Peter Parker is being replaced, it's just a new person taking on the Spider-Man mantle. This happened in the past with John Henry taking on the Man of Steel when Superman died, and everyone loved him. Including me. Jim Rhodes took on the role of Iron Man when Stark took a break. Granted, I don't know if he was liked or not being that I wasn't around at that time but I know he was liked enough so that he stuck around and became War Machine. To me, this is just another person taking on the role of Spidey. So this isn't anything new, we'll just have a new character in place of Spider-Man now. Well for a while at least. That is if the Ultimate universe doesn't implode and destroy itself eventually like Marvel originally was doing.
@Gay Comic Geek, with yo sexy self, I think it's hard to gauge how they felt about those choices back then. Especially Jim Rhodes. Largely because of the lack of Internet and an ability to actually see what folks thought of those things. Versu now we c an see each and every opinion that wants to post it. As far as Steel goes, he was one of four new Supes and he was the one that definitely was not Supes reincarnated in some way. Jim Rhodes only temporarily took over Iron Man, Tony Stark wasn't dead just dealing with that liquor bottle. So it may not have been as much of a threat to the character. I'm not sure though.
Einstein was so right when he said the white man has a disease and it's called RACISM.
There are so many Blatinos until it aint funny and that tells that the world is coming together.
It just shows that racism bleeds over into the "supposedly" tolerant world of comics.
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