Secret Six #16

[gargoylekitty]

With a two more for the 'Many Looks of Black Alice' and, as noted on Twitter...


First up, Black Alice stops Catman and Deadshot from ditching her.

Meh. Not too creative, just like your typical female version of the character with a lower/more angular dip in the front of the outfit.
Anyhow, she obviously succeeds so they head to a strip club, another attempt to ditch her.

Obviously, again, that fails.


With Scandal & co. there, they try to address the issue of 'Black Alice is definitely not joining them'(reason for her wanting to in the issue, go read!)

And they continue on the path of failing to get rid of her.

Not the biggest fan of Black Alice but it was an alright issue, only wish Scott had been on the art for it. :\

Comments

[gailsimone]

What the hell?

The way you reduce these characters is really very sad. Huntress doesn't think of herself as a white girl, for one thing. Shiva being thought of as some generic martial artist is just bizarre, and reducing Vixen, a delightful character I adore to "hot black chick" is just plain insulting. And for the record, I would have LOVED to use Vixen as a long time BOpper and did try to get her, but the best-selling new writer in comics wanted to use her instead as a featured player in DC's premiere book, JLA. I'm sure if you really try, you can try to find something racially insensitive in that, but you would be dead wrong. The real facts are two writers who love the character fought over her (with civility) and she ended up with a role in the biggest team book dc has and a very prestigious mini. In b-list character terms, in the real world? That's pretty much winning the lottery.

You're still missing the point. This team has two Latin characters (it's debatable whether Scandal is off the team or not), both of whom have been the team's only leaders of all the white characters on the team. It's sexually diverse, as well. That's one third the team and 100% of the team's leaders.

But whatever, this seems pretty tenuous.