“Black”: A Graphic Novel That Asks, “What If Only Black People Got Superpowers?”

[Recaptimus_Prime360]

Need to get this

 

[The Prodigalson]

cant find this anywhere online to cop

but this is as of the 9th
https://www.facebook.com/io9.com/vi...&utm_source=io9_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

You had to be a donor of their kick starter to get a copy. I got the first chapter in digital but they are suppose to be sending me the graphic novel. It hasn't been released to the public yet.

 

[The Prodigalson]

One page

 

[SmashinYourWaifu]

We already do.

-Survived 400 years of the brutal practice of slavery

-Ability to "live" forever (see Henrietta Lacks) and HeLa cells

-Ability to use echolocation like a bat (see blind dude Ben Underwood)

-Ability to STILL attempt to live in peace & harmony with people who have tried to wipe us out since the first slave ship arrived.

These are some shitty powers.

 

[Lou Cypher]

Art is dope

 

[Inglewood_B]

Isn't this basically the underlying plot of The XMen?

The discrimination right down to the use of a racial slur with "muties"

Edit: damn I shoulda read the thread first... niggas already made this point

 

[Melqart]

Dathroat2deep prob dead AF huh

 

[Copper]

I always look for good world-building in my fiction and fuuuuuuuuck this sound like some GREAT world-building. Stan Lee drew on the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Struggle when he created Mutants and the X-Men - this is like that taken to its logical, politically charged conclusion.

My biggest concern is the art so far......................ehhhhhhhh...........................

Reminds me of the milestone universe I read as a kid. Black kids and gang members got powers from a mysterious explosion.

yeah my aunt was a top executive at DC in the 90s so i got sent tons of DC books including Milestone. Hardware was an interesting ultraviolent take on Iron Man, Static was the one that blew up ofc, but imho ICON was always the best series and the one that deserved the TV/Movie franchise.

The setup was just too GOAT - alien crash lands in antebellum south, black slave finds him first, the ship changes his appearance to match "the locals", said alien fights in the Civil War and other black struggles throughout history while faking his death multiple times. It's like Wolverine's backstory, but better. The line where his sidekick goes "So that explains how you're a Black Republican - you're from outer space!" still cracks me up lol. They did a great job of juxtaposing his old-head black conservative views with the sidekick's liberal black militancy and their back & forth banter was great. He peacefully surrenders to police scared of him and she's like "I bet this doesn't happen to Superman..." yeah, i need to dig that trade paperback outta storage, that was Dwayne McDuffie's magnum opus R.I.P

I got the original first issue of hardware

 

[Dick_gregory]

WHITE people really really don't want me to get super powers

Its a game