BLACK: a comic where only black people have superpowers to become film

Too true, only white people are allowed to have these kinds of power fantasies

I'd feel pretty embarrassed by this kind of shit if I were black.

>only white people are allowed to have these kinds of power fantasies
I don't think "only white people get superpowers" has ever been a genre.
That being said, I also think white people's power fantasies are more tool based and power over nature than anything else, so I could be out of touch.

They already have a superpower
Affirmative action

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You can be 5% african in america and say you're black. You're even allowed to say you're black and be whiter than most amerimutts.

literally who gives a shit about SAT scores?

Well you’re not, chud

I bet you think the Bell Curve was well-researched.

Feels good, bud.

Has anyone here read it? What is it actually about, is it some kind of commentary or is it just power fantasy for the sake of it?

>Black
What a lazy, uninspired name. An easy search away from porn accidentally showing up in the search algorithm. Couldn't they think of a better title?
>a world only black people have superpowers
Why? Is this a story needed to be told? Black superheroes exist along side white superheroes so it's not like they can really critique much of the superhero genre with this premise. Heck, one of the members of the Justice League is a green Martian. I wonder what even is the story. What does it have to offer other than the same theme past works tackled but much better? There is so much questions that come with such a premise that the writers will no doubt ignore.

Honestly a book that is about what exactly "blackness" means in both America as a whole, African-Americans, and black people in America and worldwide using superpowers a hook could be a damn interesting book.

(laughs in Russian)

This metaphor of using super powered being as stand ins for minorities is always stupid because it gives a very reasonable and justified reason for fearing and hating them. Senator Kelly is right to want to register all mutants. Explicitly making it so that only black people have super powers just means the racists are right.

The very beginning of superhero fiction can be seen as "Only white people get superpowers"
Black Panther didn't show up in comics till the late 60's and even he only had 'Enhanced Strength and Endurance ' which is not even a real superpower

>Black
>Watchmen
>Lovecraft Country
>Westworld

No wonder, AT&T is going broke. If they keep making garbage like this.

This presents an interesting question, in the book how much black blood do you need to have powers? Is it like the one drop rule or do you get better powers the blacker you are?

Is this the comic where blacks have superpowers and are still oppressed and marginalized, slavery and all?

If black people have superpowers, wouldn’t they have just taken over the planet?

It's literally just a black power fantasy. The comic starts with the main character getting killed by police for no reason at all and then his powers bring him back to life. The plot is basically that white people are jealous/afraid of how powerful black people are and the main villain is trying to steal the power for himself.

>"WB is going broke"
>Lists 3 commercial and critical successes
What does he mean by this?

This. Any group that obtained powers will no doubt have antagonistic characters. It is essentially having a bunch of Homelanders.

>the Atlantic Slave trade still happened in universe
>Jim Crow still happened in universe
>Africa is still a shithole in universe

O I am laffin

How can they have powers and still be victimized? Shouldn’t they be the overlords? Or did these superpowered Africans still slaves in this universe? How does that work?

So now the 13% is gonna be 95%?

How is it that blacks are still victims even in their power fantasies?

Sounds like a pretty realistic premise to me

>Lists 3 commercial and critical successes
Critical success means nothing. And all those shows have bad ratings and no one is watching. Watchmen was so bad they had to cancel it after one season
>INB4 IT WAS ALWAYS MEANT TO BE A MINI SERIES COPE

How is it that Led Luthor is still a threat to Superman?

As a shitty attempt to have the reader sympathize with them without having to make a proper arc that is based on character.

The comic brings that up, I can't remember the exact details, but one character is mixed and still has powers.
I would imagine the writer would say anyone that passes for black gets powers.

I suppose that comes down to who is writing these superheroes, if you go back in history there were legendary characters who would be equivalent to the superheroes of today (think characters like herakles) and they would usually be the race of whoever was writing them, be that light skinned or dark skinned or whatever arbitrary feature is being used to define people. So when you have a bunch of "white" guys in a country that has a majority of "white" people, they are generally inclined to tell stories about white people first and foremost. I wouldn't really think of that as people saying "only white people can have superpowers" but rather they just didnt think of adding non white superheroes at the time because they were writing stories from their own white perspective on things. Which is fine, of course, but it is nice that they did branch out, and there are more opportunities for various other groups of people to tell stories from their own perspective.

>all those shows have bad ratings and no one is watching
Source?

>commercial and critical successes
>Watchmen show
I'm mad there's so many retards like you that still buy the hype for that piece of garbage, jesus.

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Whatever helps you sleep at night, kiddo.

Because being a victim is so engrained in the modern black person’s psyche, they literally cannot escape it, not even in fiction

Michael Jackson got his powers from fucking a radioactive young boy.

>Watchmen was a one season nothing that hasn't sold well on DVD and as far as we can tell didn't move subscriptions at all, despite a huge cost
>Lovecraft county comes out during massive layoffs and bleeding subscribers thanks to the job market leading to massive amounts of people cutting out expenses
>Westworld season 3 tanked in the ratings hard from the decent season 2 hold.

But hey, critics liked it! You know, those people who praised
>Detroit(Box office bomb that nobody remembers)
>Birth of a Nation(Box office bomb remake people have never heard of)
And of course
>Ghostbusters 2016,(which to this day is fresh on rotten tomatoes so people must prefer it and it must've been a success, right?)
AT-T must be money laundering hard.

Does it ever address the fact that everyone is right to be afraid of one race having superpowers? What about blacks in Africa, do they have powers and how do they feel about all this? What about Asians and Latino and Native American's, how do they feel about all this?

>anyone that passes for black gets powers
Isn't that basically colorism?

The issue with the concept is that it is a much more interesting idea the less binary it is. Going by genetics a good chunk of North African and Southern European people should have some amount of superpowers, and the percent of white Americans with some form of black ancestry is something like 10% in the US South.

I think some African Americans feel insecure over all the awful shit that has happened to them as a people, so they kind of have to over compensate for their feelings to justify why they shouldn't feel that way, while also recognising that the bad shit is happening.
Something like "These evil people have to conspire against me because I'm actually better than them."

Theoretically universities should.
They don't, but they should.

>can be seen as
Are you trying to be a disingenuous twat or is it accidental?

What? This sounds like a shitty reverse perspective of The Boys, except with a "muh jealousy" motive.

Birth of a Nation wasn't a remake, it just shared a title. Also after the reveal that the director/star were once accused of sexual assault all the critics dropped it hard, with many who earlier praised it admitting that it wasn't a good film they just didn't want to look racist.

It has all the subtlety of a brick, and introduces a bunch of characters it does nothing with.
Plot:
Kid gets shot up by police for doing nothing. Wakes up with powers. Gets rescued by black secret society who rounds up empowered black people, because they believe if the general public found out blacks could have powers they would wipe blacks out. Less than a percent of black people develop powers, have done so all through history. No one knows this because of a vast global conspiracy to keep it a secret. Yes it turns out, all slavery, oppression, and ecetera by everyone was to keep the super black man down. Kid has the classic every-potential-power power, and shadowy government agency wants him to find out how to give other people powers. Black society wants him to prevent the black genocide.

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Morality holding superman back from truly stopping threats, I bet you typed that out thinking it was a really clever response.

No I'm purposefully trying to piss you off in particular