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http://archive.is/ThwrP
>Superman Smashes The Klan, announced at the beginning of last year, initially as a part of the DC Zoom line-up aimed at middle grade readers, is Gene Luen Yang‘s long-awaited and anticipated stand-alone pairing with the art studio Gurihuru. The comic will finally see its debut this October.
>“The year is 1946, and the Lee family has moved from Metropolis’s Chinatown to the center of the bustling city. While Dr. Lee is greeted warmly in his new position at the Metropolis Health Department, his two kids, Roberta and Tommy, are more excited about being closer to their famous hero, Superman!
>“While Tommy adjusts to the fast pace of the city, Roberta feels out of place, as she tries and fails to fit in with the neighborhood kids. As the Lees try to adjust to their new lives, an evil is stirring in Metropolis: the Ku Klux Klan. When the Lee family awakens one night to find a burning cross on their lawn, they consider leaving town. But the Daily Planet offers a reward for information onn the KKK, and their top two reporters, Lois Lane and Clark Kent, dig into the story.
>“When Tommy is kidnapped by the KKK, Superman leaps into action — with help from Roberta! But Superman is still new to his powers — he hasn’t even worked out how to fly yet, so he has to run across town. Will Superman and Roberta reach Tommy in time?
>“Inspired by the 1940s Superman radio serial ‘Clan of the Fiery Cross,’ Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese, Boxers and Saints, The Terrifics, New Super-Man) brings us his personal retelling of the adventures of the Lee family as they team up with Superman to smash the Klan.”
Try not to derail the thread this time.
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No.1067732
>>1067726
No. Not even their art could save the Avatar books.
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No.1067733
>>1067731
>The problem he's stating this comic is virtue signalling
Because it is you fag, you really must be blind if you don't see the obvious reasons for this to be made. If anything, having 240 pages of this just show how many talent and time they are wasting just to hammer down the "don't be rayciss guys, ok?" message in everyone's throat.
>he's making a show of his support of alt-right /pol/ crap
Nice, but I think you need a little more buzzwords to make it sound convincing.
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No.1067737
>>1067733
<you really must be blind if you don't see the obvious reasons for this to be made
Here we go again.
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No.1067749
Explain how the KKK is relevant by any metric
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No.1067754
>>1067749
>adapting an episode of the Superman radio show where Superman fights the Klan
<HOW IS THE KKK RELEVANT TO THIS
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No.1067755
>>1067754
So why'd they dredge it up?
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No.1067757
>>1067731
>Virtue signalling usually consists of empty acts of public commitment
True but not always, something you yourself appear to believe as indicated by your use of "usually"
> Things that require no effort and carry no risk. This 240 page comic. That's a lot of work to be considered an "empty act".
Virtue signalling isn't an empty act in the minds of those signalling, as there would be no reason to do so if they thought that. That's irrelevant however, this comic, like almost all of them was made to make money and there's no reason this comic cannot be made to make money and also virtue signal
> It's clear that the author has investment in this book and believes in what he's doing, for good or ill
While this may be true, the possibility of this comic also being intended to virtue signal still remains
See this quote from the archive:
"I just think that, maybe we’re so far removed from that period that we’re beginning to forget those lessons."
The implication of this statement appears to be the author perceives a rise of white supremacy in modern America and has created this book as a way to lecture readers about tolerance by having superman, a fictional representation of good and America itself, defeat the KKK, a group that has been depicted as cartoonishly evil for decades.
>he's making a show of his support of alt-right /pol/ crap.
How?
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No.1067759
>>1067754
Name me one other Superman Radio show episode that has ever been adapted into anything decades after the fact.
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No.1067760
Does Supes ever stop acid attacks or trucks of peace?
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No.1067761
Man Superman took his sweet-ass time waiting until 2019 to bash the fash KKK.
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No.1067762
>>1067755
I'll quote author Gene Luen Yang
>"I started this project because I thought it was something that I needed to understand. There’s a Chinese tradition that you use the events of the past as a way of talking about the present; I did come onto this project thinking about that, thinking, if I can understand the historical context that there was something about the present that I’d understand a little bit better."
I'm sure Yang's career as a cartoonist and comics lecturer, whose previous work ,American Born Chinese, dealt with the struggles of Chinese kids fitting into American culture, played a part in his decision to do this. "Clan of the Burning Cross" not only features Chinese characters, but is possibly the most historic piece of Superman media ever created. It's exposure of Klan secrets dealt a serious blow to the KKK and severely impacted their ability to recruit new members.
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No.1067766
>>1067762
>It's exposure of Klan secrets dealt a serious blow to the KKK and severely impacted their ability to recruit new members.
Any proof for that statement?
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No.1067773
>>1067709
>Anyone who didn't like Gwenpool doesn't read comics
Nigger, what? A good deal of the book was Gwen flittering about causing chaos because she didn't consider the universe real and generally coming off as LOLSORANDUMB until the Future Gwen arc gave her a reality check, and the book didn't really grow into its own until it actually started using the Fourth Wall in a physical manner rather than meta jokes. There are reasons why people wouldn't like the book – and I'm saying this as someone who hated it at first and grew to enjoy it later.
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No.1067774
>>1067766
http://archive.fo/XhFhl
There's also a book all about it.
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No.1067777
>>1067773
>until the Future Gwen arc gave her a reality check
Bull-hocky. She got her first check at the end of the first issue when Modok kills Cecil, and another when she gets her ass kicked by Dadroc.
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No.1067779
>>1067761
This is based off a Supes story from 1946 retard.
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No.1067784
>>1067762
Boy, I'm glad that Gurihiru is doing the art
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No.1067790
>>1067762
>American Born Chinese
I remember reading that in Highschool. It was pretty good. I might reread it if I get the chance.
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No.1067800
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No.1067806
>>1067784
It's a waste to put them on it, though
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No.1067807
>>1067762
>it is possibly the most historic piece of Superman media ever created
I doubt that, I can't imagine very many people knew about this radio play prior to this comic being announced
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No.1067809
>>1067807
>he only knew about Superman fighting the Klan because of this thread
Fucking casuals
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No.1067813
>>1067420
>The Mafia does not exist. -J. Edgar Hoover
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No.1067852
>>1067813
The Klan is dead a FBI honeypot.
>>1067732
Korra completely destroyed the Avatar universe. There's no way to save it without retconning away everything but the original cartoon.
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No.1067956
>>1067809
Stop fronting, child.
Unless you happen to be some sort of pop culture WWII historian, you didn't know about some obscure 40s radio show until this was announced either.
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No.1067960
>>1067956
See
>>1067774
It's mentioned in nearly every comics history book. Superman: The Complete History,Men of Tomorrow, and A Comic Book History of Comic Books all feature it. It's well known in the comics community.
You could've known it too if you weren't such a disgusting casual.
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No.1067985
>>1067960
>It's well known in the comics community.
It literally isn't, you fronting child.
Absolutely nobody, yourself included, ever knew of this obscure radio show before this comic was announced. We have not ever had a single thread, or hell, even a single post about it on any chan, including this one, before this comic was announced.
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No.1067988
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No.1067989
>>1067985
there is no point in denying it , it even has his own wikipedia entry
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No.1067991
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No.1068010
>>1067991
>doesn't have over 800 gigs of comics, 47 of which is solely dedicated to Superman and Superman related properties, stored in an external hard-drive and ready for reading at a moment's notice
Get on my level, scrub.
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No.1068022
>>1068010
>>>/ipfs/
>>>/hydrus/
Do your part in preserving the future
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No.1068036
>>1067777 (checking your quads)
Reality check that stuck, I mean. Even after the whole MODOK thing and Batroc finding out she's incompetent, she started falling back into bad habits once Cecil came back as a ghost and sent MODOK into space, since it confirmed her bias that she's the hero and thus has plot armor for whatever she does (as evidenced by her trying to team-up with Nigger-Spidey, then attempting to murder his school-bomber classmate because he's an irrelevant bit-villain and somehow expecting the superhero not to have an issue with that).
It was only after seeing the nadir of her behavior in the form of a future version of herself killing future versions of her friends and heroes she liked that she started changing for the better.
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No.1068037
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
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No.1068038
>>1068010
I have over 1TB of PS1 and PS2 games, can't have my comics stored. Reading online is enough
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No.1068040
>>1067417
>kkk
When will Superman go to the ghetto and stop blacks from committing over half the homicides, despite being less than 13% of the population?
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No.1068047
>>1068040
look i don't even care if you are a nazi but if you come to this board, i assume is because you want to talk about comics
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No.1068048
>>1068047
>facts make you a nazi now
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No.1068049
>>1068048
if a cared about reality you think i would spent all day reading comics and shitposting ?
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No.1068065
>>1068036
it's my imagination or spider-man looks like a gray
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No.1068151
>>1068065
I think its some webbing partially covering his mask.
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No.1068179
>>1068151
It is. Mask got scratched up in an earlier fight and he needed a fill-in.
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No.1068205
Superman may smash the Klan, but have you ever seen him beat up a NAMbLA member? Checkmate!
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No.1072142
Am I crazy or dindn't this thread use to have the comic storytimed in it?
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No.1072143
>>1072142
Different thread. Hence the "try not to derail the thread this time" in the op.
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No.1072147
>>1067417
That such a weird comic which feels like a 40s era Cpt America comic exists today is strange enough… but to see Gurihuri drawing Superman and the friggin Klan… its so weird.
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No.1072291
so the KKK must be a giant threat to the whole world now?
I remember them being essentially nothing but a joke when I was a kid. how did they suddenly get so much more powerful and dangerous in just 20 years?
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No.1072293
>>1072291
The Klan as it exists today is mostly as an excuse for FBI agents to hang out in the woods, drink beer, and say "nigger" for a few weeks before they decide to enter the "Hey, my fellow racists, want to blow up a federal building?" stage of shutting it down.
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No.1072298
>>1068036
>IRL fan of American comics gets into the Marvel Universe.
>Thinks a semi-major character getting killed in front of her is a reality check and that she should take it more seriously.
>Forgets that any vaguely important character ALWAYS comes back to life.
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No.1072299
>>1067731
Devil's advocate: The writer who had the idea to do the comic isn't drawing 240 pages, he's adapting the script to a radio play. How much effort did that take? It's not his own money paying the artists to draw 240 pages either.
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