The Avengers

[Marvelous]

White people save the world...hooray.

he IS the boss...

[BmoreAkuma]

This was the late 80s so same formula. Bad Ass black guy in charge of a bunch of whites

[Kristopher]

White people save the world...hooray.

Could have said it better! Thanks, mayday!!!!
One colored Token of appeasement is NOT diversity.

[Kristopher]

This was the late 80s so same formula. Bad Ass black guy in charge of a bunch of whites

"In the early days, whiteness was so pervasive in comics that it could actually span the universe: a Kryptonian Superman could crash-land in Kansas and pass as an ordinary white farm boy. In the 1960s, though, comic-book publishers began trying to create nonwhite heroes. As the civil-rights movement came to dominate the national conversation, a young white artist named Neal Adams tried to subtly incorporate black characters into the newspaper strip he was illustrating. “I come out of a time when bigotry was a lot more subtle than it [was] in the days of slavery,” Adams says. “Not for the people who had it working against them but for the people who walked around saying, ‘There’s no problem, right?’” His world in New York City, Adams says, was full of people who did not think of themselves as Southern-style racists.
But Adams drew and submitted an installment of a syndicated comic strip featuring a black doctor and a white ambulance driver in one panel. When he later saw proofs of the strip, he realized that higher-ups had switched the characters’ heads. The higher-ups told him audiences would be confused by a black doctor.
When Adams got to DC Comics, where he worked on the Green Lantern in the early 1970s, he started to push back. “I asked [my editor] what happens if Hal Jordan gets killed,” Adams says. “They tell me they have a backup.” That backup turned out to be a blond gym teacher from the Midwest.
Adams, however, thought that the secondary Green Lantern should be black. So, with his editor’s approval, he and writer Dennis O’Neil created John Stewart, a black architect who would later become the main Green Lantern. (In the early drafts, Adams says, an editor wanted to name the character Lincoln Washington; Adams talked him out of it.) “I’m very proud of that,” he says. “I’m glad that [my editor] was open to it and malleable. But it did have to be explained to him.”http://prospect.org/article/masked-identity-politics

[Hypestyle]

  I remember B.P. Vess!  good memories.. [in the original C.O.P.S. toy line, the 'beat cop' guy to the left was set up as team leader, but when DIC Studios produced the show, Vess had the spot.. made sense since Vess was a Fed..]

[BmoreAkuma]

SNIP

Fully aware of Neal Adams. I've read that very strong book with Green Lantern/Green Arrow. The infamous "green skins/blacks skins" or something of that nature. As a fan of the characters in particular Tony this doesnt bother me too much.

[True Father 7]

Avengers movie is awesome. One word, Thanos!

[Battle]

Avengers movie is awesome. One word, Thanos!

WTF!
You saw the movie already?!

[Marvelous]

Avengers movie is awesome. One word, Thanos!

WTF!
You saw the movie already?!

They did pre-shows here also, last week.  Had a ticket but gave it away in a raffle.  Ive been "spoilered" so I'd suggest going on blackout for this movie cause people are talking about it everywhere...a lot!

[Reginald Hudlin]

Writing my review today.  Saw it yesterday. 

[BmoreAkuma]

Bout to "see" this film this weekend. Hopefully I get lucky too

[Kristopher]

White people save the world...hooray.

he IS the boss...

And?

[Marvelous]

White people save the world...hooray.

he IS the boss...

And?

I was responding to the previous posts of mayday and JLI Jesse, when they was...nvm.

[Vic Vega]

IRRC, the casting of Sam L. Jackson was a comic book homage to an actor that got translated to the movies.

They even had the Ultimate Nick Fury character voice his desire to be played by Sam Jackson in the movie.

I doubt that Mark Millar has minority appeasement or even diversity on his mind when he thought up Ultimate Nick Fury .

Its more likely that the dude is a big Tarantino/SLJ fan.

Each major Marvel character has had his own movie to appear in before showing up in the Avengers. The only Black Avenger shown so far in the movies is War Machine. He could join in Avengers 2. Falcon might show up in Captain America 2(or you could show BP there).

If a Black Panther movie ever gets off the ground, he will end up in the Avengers franchise.




 

[Reginald Hudlin]

My review is on the main page of the site.  Spoilers are marked.