Scarlet Seal - Fighting Crime with Yellowface

[strannik01]

When DC Comics decided to bring back Quality Comics characters, it only revived some of them. The most recent Freedom Fighters series (whatever it was called) gave them an opportunity to revive a few more. But there is one character DC Comics will never, ever revive. A character with an origin that, quite frankly... Well, see for yourself.

The following story originally appeared in Smash Comics #16. Art and writing by Harry Campbell.

Comments

[bradhanon]

Okay, that wasn't just me. I was surprised at my reaction to the pro-police-brutality sections. Maybe it's that I was braced for the racism, but not for the authoritarianism. Or maybe it's that racism of this kind has lost the social sanction it used to enjoy (we've developed NEW kinds of racism instead!) but that "business end of a nightstick" mentality is still very prevalent indeed.

[psychopathicus_rex]

Or you could look at it another way - these characters are both racist AND authoritarian. We're looking at Rodney King territory here.