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]

Ugh.

I can't believe people waste time with this. If someone thinks Dinah taking a young girl from a life of torture and abuse is bad because she's white, well, screw them. "Problematic," my ass. I've done more than my share of study about this and there are more Asian babies, mostly girl babies, available than Asian parents wanting to adopt them.
Ask those children if they would have preferred the state-run orphanages.

As for the Bane thing, you said, "Then in Secret Six we have a Hispanic woman losing her authority and having a white man take over to fix things"


This is what he was correcting. You got your facts wrong. Bane is not white. Bane is hispanic and always has been.

And trust me, I don't give a moment's worry about being called a racist. The Six are the Six because they are the characters that fit, regardless of mis-characterizations.

[raygunjill]

I'm not trying to call you racist, I simply feel the treatment of Asian children in comics is less than stellar. In mixed race children it's the white parent that is emphasize: Lian is raised by Roy with her mom as a distant menace; Iris and Jai have Wally emphasized more than Linda; Connor Hawke's mother is barely seen; Cassandra Cain was treated as a pawn of her father and Bruce for years.

I know the issues of the treatment of Asian girls personally. I have two family members who are adopted by China. And while they have a better chance in America, it doesn't change the fact that they've become divorced from their heritage. They're the only Asian children in a majority white town and their adoptive parents try their best but can't ultimately understand the true burden of racist bullying because of their white privileged.

The older girl in particular has no idea what country she's even from, since she was seized by the Chinese government from southern Tibet. In the short run their childhood is going to be great, but now she's old enough to start asking questions and dealing with the fact that China's not the only cause of her problems. The US and other western countries are accomplices in the Chinese abuse of human rights economically and politically.

The story of Sin hits home personally, and the harsh truth is as long as people like Dinah seek out Lady Shiva there's going to be a demand for the abusive training of girls. It's not a black and white, or rather Asian and white, issue and I feel the storyline glossed over the real life implications.