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quote:Then why'd you go ahead an explain it?...
BB, that's my explanation. I don't expect that the pros are trailing me around and hanging on my every word. If they are, I want cash, and a trendy title like "Half-Baked Itinerant Consultant At Large" or whatever.
Oh, and I have long hair IRL. I'd look just like your standard issue hot super-chick if not for... uh, everything else.
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COULD be a way to begin the slow process of lightening up the xenephobia in the new continuity. Y'know, everyone joins together to show support after the planet they all secretly were afraid of was destroyed by drunken space-rednecks?
cleome46
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Great. Just great. Now not only have I got Midnight Oil's "Redneck Wonderland" stuck in my head, I keep picturing Durlans as all carrying surfboards and speaking with thick Aussie accents.
[shakes fist]
Curse you, Super-Lash Tot! Currrrse yooooou!!11
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quote:Originally posted by cleome: Great. Just great. Now not only have I got Midnight Oil's "Redneck Wonderland" stuck in my head, I keep picturing Durlans as all carrying surfboards and speaking with thick Aussie accents.
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I felt like I've been in a comics coma and I've finally come to!
May is too long away.
Everything sounds too good to be true.
I like the idea of Tyroc's homeworld going buh-bye, giving him a reason to return to Legion permanently. More legionnaires from racial minorities seems to make logical sense for a group that's supposed to represent different worlds. It's the U.N. of space.
The idea of Durla biting the dust is an intriguing one, since any survivors could now hide anywhere as anyone; they could be the most targeted race to be hated due to the xenophobia that Levitz wants to focus on.
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quote:Originally posted by Owl Lad: More legionnaires from racial minorities seems to make logical sense for a group that's supposed to represent different worlds. It's the U.N. of space.
The whole problem I have is that Africans aren't a racial minority there are over a billion now -caucasions only account for about 700 million, while the Indian sub-continent and China both have a billion.
OK other planets may have different breakdowns but the Earth representatives should reflect the population now or as it is likely to be in 1000 years - possibly 'coffee colored people by the score'.
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Eh, I think there's something not right with that accounting. We're missing some people.
Anyhow
I've been seeing more and more purple people. Can't imagine how many of those there will be in 1000 years, but I'm pretty sure they'll dominate.
A 1000 years isn't all that long for a darwin type genetic revolution to take place so current trends being what they are...
Of course now if planets had been populated by people who were alien kidnapped before the sail sped up color mixing, then we could reasonably still see distinct present day earth type racial characteristics.
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[/qb][/QUOTE]The whole problem I have is that Africans aren't a racial minority there are over a billion now -caucasions only account for about 700 million, while the Indian sub-continent and China both have a billion.
OK other planets may have different breakdowns but the Earth representatives should reflect the population now or as it is likely to be in 1000 years - possibly 'coffee colored people by the score'. [/QB][/QUOTE]
Even by this estimation, then, all the more to see more black, Indian and Chinese characters(at least one so as not to alienate the entire reading demographic).
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cleome46
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quote:Originally posted by Owl Lad:
Even by this estimation, then, all the more to see more black, Indian and Chinese characters(at least one so as not to alienate the entire reading demographic).
We Caucazoids really need to be better about sharing our toys with others.
Writers and artists lament about the difficulty of portraying a character like Tyroc, and fans complain that characters of color are "too angry," "too bland," "too good and infallible," etc. An obvious way to alleviate this problem is to have more than just a single token person of color in an ongoing story. Have two, have twenty, but not just one.
Nobody refers to a character like Guy Gardner as "the angry White man," do they? If he were the only White character in the Green Lanterns, though...
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quote:Originally posted by Blockade Boy: Eh, I think there's something not right with that accounting. We're missing some people.
the point was really about people of African skin/features not being a minority. The UN recently 'celebrated' Africa passing the 1 billion population point following on from India doing so a few years back
quote:Originally posted by Owl Lad:
Even by this estimation, then, all the more to see more black, Indian and Chinese characters(
My point exactly
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Now that we're back to the retroboot, the writers and artists can pay more attention to the little details that separate different ethnic groups and employ some of them for more diversity (plus add new Legionnaires that are 'different'.)
Tinya - Mexican or Puerto Rican Luornu - Slavic Val, if alive - Asian Jo - Russian Rokk - Hebrew Dawnstar - Indian, oh, she's already Plains Indian, sorry Salu - Mediterranian, Greek or Egyptian or French Ayla/Garth - Scottish/Dutch redheads with freckles, very rare Imra/Nura/Mysa/Jecka - Scandinavian Jacques/Daniel - French/African Jennie - American/Mulato (her father always looked Creole, to me) Gim - middle American/Canadian
Anyway, that's the idea, play up regional differences for more diversity.
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^^^ I always thought Jenni's Dad's origins stretched back to the Indian sub-contintent. She always looked more Indian than African to me anyway.
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