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[Comics/Racism and Anti-Semetism] A selection of screenshots from issues 5 through 7 of Static.
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This is from 1993.
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the larger plot at play here was Virgil found himself having to fight against a black extremist who had decided that Jews were one of the problems for his people.
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ahhh I'M ASSUMING THIS IS WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT
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these are very good
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I'l definitely have to sit down and read it one day when my heart is in comics again
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and as a result, Virgil ended up learning about the nature of extremism and how racism and anti-semetic attitudes aren't just overt things.
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This is over 20 years old.
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the first time I read all of the Milestone comics I was amazed at how relevant all of it still was.
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: It is!
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They're definitely worth reading when you feel like giving comics another shot.
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it's sad that it's still relevant
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but also not surprising... mcduffie wrote these, right?
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It is.
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Ayep.
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Milestone was his baby.
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We lost him way too soon
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SO much respect for that man
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From Virgil Hawkins dealing with being a black kid dealing with white supremacy and the temptation of gangs as a solution both at school and as a superhero
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to Raquel Ervin wanting to be an example as a superhero while still dealing with being working class and a single teen mom.
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it's such a small thing but I hope that comics start to embrace being stridently political again
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and the issues of being "model" minorities and how gang culture is as much a part of life in both good and bad ways.
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We seriously need it.
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I liked Young Justice enough, but the inclusion of Static and Rocket- and how- didn't really make me happy.
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Because they were there as ticky marks and basically scrubbed of the important parts of them.
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Agreed!
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Because giving Virgil an alien-experiment activated metagene totally removes everything about the importance of his choice in the comics and his own cartoon.
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And how and why he became a hero.
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That and they were all after thoughts instead of characters
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But let's see if that changes in the third season though my hopes are not high
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And having Rocket show up at the end of the first season to have a get together with the other female heroes before she got married, with season two (or the comics?)
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just
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scrubbed her of her choices too.
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They made a quiet effort to at least slowly broach SOME of this shit so hopefully they'll be inspired to put the backpedal on what they did wrong and try to look at it from a different perspective
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It was all sanitized.
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I MEAN MY HOPES AREN'T HIGH, but it's at least a possibility... though I think there will be more freedom to do that in comics themselves
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Because marriage and then the baby, right?
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we'll see where it goes!
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Maybe! I'm happy it got a third season for the people who liked it and I didn't mind season two that much myself despite the flaws.
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I liked season 2 MORE but I can acknowledge those glaring flaws too, hahah
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McDuffie was so good :c
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Yeah!
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I liked it and didn't mind it.
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I just stopped watching it because
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I was having a harder and harder time enjoying it
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i'm also super mad b/c lmfao my Singular DC Comics Static Trade doesn't have these issues Of Course :/
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when everyone was constantly complaining about it and pretty much making it a challenge to even say anything positive about it.
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: Do you have them digitally?
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no ! are they on comixology ?
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Noooo.
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I have a giant folder...
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ooooh well i wouldn't say no
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infiniteprayer You too would enjoy this is think?
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: I'm in the process of uploading Static for Zoe, would you like a link to itm
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Sure, I'll hang onto it for the future! Thank you!