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Doop (xdoop) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-30 14:13:00

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char: brother voodoo/jericho drumm, char: daimon hellstrom, char: dr. strange/stephen strange, char: hood/parker robbins, char: power man/luke cage, creator: billy tan, creator: brian michael bendis, publisher: marvel comics, title: new avengers

New Avengers #53

This is from New Avengers #53, by Brian Michael Bendis and Billy Tan.

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	ian_karkull 2009-05-30 02:00 pm UTC (link)
	I don't particularly care for how the story has been set up and the Bendisian dialogue ticks have been very grating (Hellstrom talks like a really bad 90's action movie) but on the whole, it's been surprisingly entertaining. Brother Voodoo -at least temporarily- being the New Sorceror Supreme is something I could get behind. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ex_stig213 2009-05-30 02:07 pm UTC (link)
	'Specially as he's rocking those fantastic Supreme-duds. Although, again, I can't help feeling that there's another event taking place beneath the surface of Dark Reign, one called "Obama Fever". I'm all in favour of a Black Sorcerer Supreme...but why not five years ago, eh? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	drsevarius 2009-05-30 02:11 pm UTC (link)
	So black characters can't be used now without being accused of being Obama-fever? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_stig213 2009-05-30 02:55 pm UTC (link)
	I'm more saying that it just seems oddly convenient that this should happen now rather than before we COULD accuse it of being Obama-fever. After all, Drumm has had the raw power and experience to take over the mantle before this - what factor other than sales and trying to keep on the media pulse could have made it happen now? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	drsevarius 2009-05-30 03:09 pm UTC (link)
	Because Strange didn't give up the mantle before? I don't see how Obama's popularity extends to other black characters. If you want to complain about he guest-stars in all the other comics, that's one thing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_menagerie993 2009-05-31 02:50 am UTC (link)
	I know he's either lost it or given it up at least once or twice. Salome ended up with it for awhile in the 90's. (Reply to this) (Parent)

bruinsfan
2009-05-31 03:31 pm UTC (link)

After all, Drumm has had the raw power and experience to take over the mantle before this...

He has? When? I thought he was supposed to be an extremely minor practicioner of mysticism, probably not as capable as the goons Strange's usual enemies employ. I'll grant that he's a noble heroic figure with a long history (when he hasn't been treated as a joke), but I'd think that every other candidate we've been shown so far is his superior in terms of expertise and raw power.

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	stolisomancer 2009-05-30 03:17 pm UTC (link)
	I'd suggest it's a coincidence. Bendis grew up reading Marvel in a very specific era, and a lot of those characters are now seeing a revival in his work for the company. Because of that particular era, the mid-seventies, a lot of the characters also happen to be black; Marvel had a "blaxploitation" period just like movies did. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2009-05-30 02:24 pm UTC (link)
	I fully expect the literal Son of Satan to speak like a bad 90's action movie. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	tavella 2009-05-30 02:47 pm UTC (link)
	It's by far the least irritating option of those I've seen. The Hood is an inalterably silly idea, and I am not one of the Doom fangirls. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_stig213 2009-05-30 02:58 pm UTC (link)
	As a Doom neutral, I just think it'd be silly because there's only so many things you can do with it before he eventually gets bored with all that power. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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