The Superhero Cartoon My Daughter and Your Kids Deserve

I’m a Black comic book geek who wanted to make something cool for his kid.

By DAMION GONZALES

I shouldn’t be here. I mean I shouldn’t have been the one to do this. There are people much more qualified, more “plugged in,” more scholarly.

Heck, a whole bunch of famous people should have done this before I ever got the chance to. People with last names you would recognize. People who can count me as a longtime fan of their body of work.

I’m just a regular guy. I’m not Milestone Comics (original flavor or 2.0). I’m no Denys Cowan, Michael Davis (hi, MOTU), Christopher Priest, Derek Dingle, or Dwayne McDuffie. I’m no Reggie Hudlin or Kevin Grevioux. I’m just a guy who wanted to make something cool for my kid.

Okay, maybe that’s over simplifying. Or maybe I’m hopping around. So let’s try to find a good jumping in place here.

I’m Damion, and I’m a Black Comic Book Geek — or Nerd, or whatever we are these days.

Part of the challenge — did I say challenge? I meant burden — of being a comic book fan who’s any other color but White is that you don’t reeeeeally get to see a whole lot of yourself in those four color pages.

The struggle’s been real ever since comics have been with us. I mean for decades the faces of comics had been so White — so White you can go ahead and insert your own how White were they? joke — that no one would have a reason to bat an eyelid or raise an objecting finger.

Yeah. That White.