BW Media Spotlight

There are times running this site where I have to ask myself if I should do something just because I can. I might just be a voice in the crowd but when I try to write a commentary I want to add something different, a perspective that’s pretty much me. Sometime it means I’m being less biased and sometimes more biased. I don’t want to be doing the same thing everybody else is because otherwise coming to BW Media Spotlight is a waste of your time.

So…Miles Morales becomes Thor.

You’ve probably heard what’s up with this one. This is one of those times where it appears a surface viewing is enough to declare the book “racist” based on basically doing to Marvel’s Asgard what The Wiz did to the land of Oz. And yet this is one where left and right, SJW and Comicsgate, are actually in agreement across sociopolitical divisions. It’s like the comic equivalent of NAFTA. Now you know I try to limit my political discussions, which gets harder as social and political perspectives continue to work their way into narratives at the cost of the story. However, this one is getting everyone’s panties bunched. Then again, when has the guy who deep dived Seduction Of The Innocent taken the internet at face value? So let’s go over what’s already going on, and then I have to ask…do I do with this comic what I did Fredric Wertham’s anti-comic tirade?

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