https://www.thewebsiteofdoom.com/articles/jack-of-all-trades-number-one-in-the-hood-g/ Mon, 13 May 2019 22:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 https://www.thewebsiteofdoom.com/articles/jack-of-all-trades-number-one-in-the-hood-g/#comment-12301 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 03:33:28 +0000 http://www.thewebsiteofdoom.com/?p=6914#comment-12301 Yeah, not the point. I couldn’t care less about the racial balance in superhero books. The point is that Johns’ Aquaman falls into an archetype — the “bland white guy” — that is, by its nature, inherently uninteresting to read. A character type so bland that making an arbitrary change like switching his race would, barring any other change, make him more interesting if only because he’d fall outside the norm. You wouldn’t call Bruce Wayne or Booster Gold bland white guys because they actually have *personalities*. Whereas Arthur Curry lacks personality to the point that his defining features become a) his race and b) his all-encompassing blandness.

]]> https://www.thewebsiteofdoom.com/articles/jack-of-all-trades-number-one-in-the-hood-g/#comment-12290 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:58:50 +0000 http://www.thewebsiteofdoom.com/?p=6914#comment-12290 Why are you so worried about the fact that a lot of superheroes are white? A lot of superheroes are black, too you know.

]]> https://www.thewebsiteofdoom.com/articles/jack-of-all-trades-number-one-in-the-hood-g/#comment-11631 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:43:59 +0000 http://www.thewebsiteofdoom.com/?p=6914#comment-11631 I’m not a fan of the Titans book but I like the Aquaman title. The first issue is the highlight of that first arc though…..

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