Notes
Fear of a Black Panther: Part One
“Fear of a Black Panther: Part One” is the excellent first part of an examination of Panther’s Rage: “a
classic 13 part super-hero story that predated the ‘adult’ stylings of
Watchmen & the Dark Knight Returns by over a decade. [It} was a dark, dense American super-hero comic that featured African
characters in every single one of its key roles, keeping with McGregor’s
plan that ‘all of the characters save one would be black.'”
Categories: Notes
Tagged as: 1970s, 2010s, Africa, African Americans, afrogeekery, Black Panther, Blerds, colonialism, comics, Don McGregor, imperialism, Marvel, race, superheroes, Wakanda
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Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”
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