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johnny_kaos

From The "You've Got to be Shitting Me" Files...

Apr 28, 2011 10:15

This is an actual excerpt from the Wikipedia entry on DC Comics hero Black Lightning:

"The original candidate for DC Comics' first headlining black superhero was a character called the Black Bomber, a black hero who was actually a white racist and later described by comics historian Don Markstein as 'an insult to practically everybody with any ( Read more... )

stupid, comics

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Funny thing... paladine April 28 2011, 15:21:38 UTC

In the "Anansi changes reality to screw with Vixen" story that Dwayne McDuffie did in his Justice League run, Black Bomber actually shows up in it. He's played for "What the fuck..." laughs.

Re: Funny thing... johnny_kaos April 29 2011, 04:30:22 UTC

I haven't read Dwayne McDuffie's Justice League run, but I really should. I have no doubt that it's awesome. And I'm pretty sure being played for laughs is the only way Black Bomber could have been made acceptable to anyone, ever.

Re: Funny thing... paladine April 29 2011, 17:51:37 UTC

DC seemed to do everything within its power to derail McDuffie's run (he got taken off the book when he complained about it) and it didn't help that he was stuck with an absolutely terrible artist like Ed Benes, but the Anansi story was good enough to overcome that. I really wish I could remember which trade it was in.

professormortis April 28 2011, 17:55:20 UTC

That is some grade A crazy. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.