Celebrating Black Superheroes

[neo_prodigy]

Cross-posted:


In honor of Black History Month, I thought I'd celebrate by showcasing a few of my favorite black superheroes (and supervillains) from comics and/or other fandoms with comic tie-ins.

And if you have any favorite black characters from comics or other fandom that you'd love to showcase, then by all means post lists and/or pics in the comments. I would love to see your selections.















Cyborg from Smallville. My man is fine isn't he. Go ahead and look. THAT'S CLOSE ENOUGH!!!!



And speaking of casting win on Smallville, THIS!!!!!!







































































































And just in case you previously missed this:

Over 60 Black Superheroines

An awesome site I found while composing this post:

http://blacksuperheroes.blogspot.com/

Comments

[northstarfan]

Fred Perry.



What do you mean he's not a superhero? Have you seen this guy's workload?

Oh, fine then.

Penny Pincer from Gold Digger.



Penny is a genius, world-adventuring archeologist. She originally came into the book as an antagonist to the book's main character, Gina Diggers, seeing her as both a professional rival and competition for the hand of high-flying pilot, Ace.



Penny has had a phenomenal amount of character growth over the course of the book, however. She buried the hatchet with Gina, stopped playing games with Ace, and took on mentorship of a genetically engineered canary-harpy.



She and Gina work as colleagues more often than not these days, and if there's still a slight edge of profession competition between them, it mostly comes out as banter.

Which is cool and all, but I do occasionally miss the wedgie wars... ;)



...in Fred's defense, the book is equal-opportunity cheesecake/beefcake.

[halloweenjack]

I had to look closely at the, ah, southern part of that first Penny pic to make sure that I wasn't seeing what I thought I was seeing at first glance.

[northstarfan]

Your first glance probably had a 50/50 shot at being right. I do seriously adore GD for its humor, its character growth, and its frequent moments of ovary-tickling cute, but I still wouldn't let my mom catch me reading it. ;)