Reading some Captain Marvel from 1983 where Monica Rambeau is the titular character. A black woman hero and all I can think of is if Marvel did this today there would be endless whinging on twitter about muh white genocide.
Reading some Captain Marvel from 1983 where Monica Rambeau is the titular character. A black woman hero and all I can think of is if Marvel did this today there would be endless whinging on twitter about muh white genocide.
Much of life was "apolitical" back then. Sure, she was a black woman in the title role of a comic book, but she wore the same skin-tight outfits as everyone else and posed in the same sexy ways.
Eventually people got smart to Marvel "inserting politics into everything" and we started the downward spiral
Yeah they still showed off her body a bunch of times. Still though for racists today, even a black woman being a sex object is too far.
I guess the real difference is racist comic book fans didn't have an internationally accessible platform