quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: No way! The rest would never stand to applaud!
Dude in foreground with the back of his head towards us may be the Rest, however!
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From: Ninja Land | Registered: Nov 2004
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quote:Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare: an all-white super-hero club doesn't seem "futuristic" anymore.
One thing that rubbed me the wrong way during the whole Earth Man arc: His allies, the "earth firsters," were way more racially diverse than the Legion itself is.
What kind of message was that? Somebody really didn't think it through like they should have...
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quote:Originally posted by cleome46: One thing that rubbed me the wrong way during the whole Earth Man arc: His allies, the "earth firsters," were way more racially diverse than the Legion itself is.
That was a weird scene. Around that table, it seemed like the artist had very specifically included exactly one person of each ethnicity, which felt very 'meta.'
It was like they were trying to pull away from the all-white Justice League of Earth (not that it was easy to tell that Golden Boy or Radiation Roy were white...) and the nazi-evoking uniforms of Earth-Man and the flunkie troopers, and say, 'see, it's not just white humans that are crazy racists, it's *all* humans!'
Perhaps it was part of the attempt at making Earth-Man seem more sympathetic, by putting out there that all the other 'races' were racist, so he wasn't that bad... If so, it seems to have failed.
I also found the background images in the prison escape from Takron-Galtos odd, because many of the prisoners were aliens, and yet it seemed that every single science police officer in the background was human.
I doubt the writer/author meant to give the impression that a racial profiling humans-only police force is rounding up tentacly folk without due cause for 'driving while green' or whatever, and packing Takron-Galtos with anyone who isn't square-jawed and clean-skinned, but that's certainly one interpretation of that artistic choice.
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Maybe they were trying to show that in the 31st century, racism transcends the obvious physical differences and focuses more on where you were born? There was an issue or two where the earth-firsters attacked Titanians, who could definitely pass for Earth natives.
I also remember Earth-Man calling Wildfire and Dawnstar Earth-born Legionnaires who are now traitors, despite neither looking like your typical Earth native.
I do agree with you that the Legion could stand to be more diverse - not just in terms of representing the various modern-day ethnic groups but also in terms of non-humanoid aliens.
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What kind of message was that? Somebody really didn't think it through like they should have...
