So Strange Fruit actually completed this week, what did

>>87447735

Waid's a racist.

I read the first issue like a year ago and thought it was shit
did it get better
wasted good art if you ask me

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>>87447735

A lot of stupid people misunderstood this book.

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>>87447958
Member when Abhay Khosla talked about it?

http://www.tcj.com/the-tcj-2015-year-in-review-spectacufuck-part-iii/

>July brought news of a truly exciting new comic. “[Mark] Waid and [J.G.] Jones should make room on their mantles for some Eisners,” trumpeted CBR over the hit feel-good series of the summer, Strange Fruit, from Boom Studios.

>Strange Fruit tells the story of white characters in a small Mississippi town, struggling with the effect of the historic and deadly 1927 flood on their community. Also: there’s a naked silent black man wandering around having flashbacks about spaceships. His sassy black sidekick calls him Johnson, because “white folk ain’t much gonna cotton to yo’ running ‘round with yo’ JOHNSON hanging’ out!” But mostly it’s about damp white characters. There’s the evil white Klansmen, and then all the other articulate white characters who all seem like swell folks and sure don’t like those Klansmen, no sir.

>Yes, the first issue of Strange Fruit tells the gripping story of race in America: the noble battle between enlightened white people and less-enlightened white people. How exciting it must have been for black people to have been on the sidelines of that battle, and gotten to watch all that unfold for them, the lucky sons of guns!

>The n-word gets used a lot for a Boom Studios comic, but not as many times as that comic where the Lumberjanes meet Lil Wayne. Who knew that Lil Wayne could tie so many different kinds of sailing knots? And who knew that those Lumberjanes were ride-or-die racists??

>>87448036
>But as Waid explained to Newsarama, before the release of Strange Fruit #1, “It’s all in the delivery, and I’ve no doubt our readers will let us know if we err.”

>Oh but so hey, how’d that turn out?

>Funny story.

>The quick version is “err.” TLDR: muy “err.” It did not go 100% well, no, with reviews ranging from “Waid and Jones’ Strange Fruit seems ignorant of its place within American comics” to “any direction I see this miniseries going is disturbing. It’s not daring and it’s not ambitious and it’s not very interesting. At worst? It’s masturbatory” with a stop in between at “two white men are writing and drawing this book about racism and they have already decided that it is about them.” One review even blamed Strange Fruit #1 for causing public nudity, specifically a review I read in a dream I had where I showed up at high school naked and all my classmates were secretly werewolves.

>CBR predicted Strange Fruit would win Eisner Awards, but they were probably just referring to the Eisner Award for Biggest Johnson in Comics. Which is a bummer— I thought this was finally your year, Lee Weeks, you elephant-dicked hoss.

>After the release of Strange Fruit #1, Waid would have to tell CBR, “What I say about this is not what’s important. What’s important is what other people who don’t have the privilege that I have want to say. That’s what’s important, and I have to listen. And I would be lying to you if I said it’s easy, but I’m willing to try.”

>But while that may not sound like a lot, at all, even a little, heck no, hecky-naw-naw, “I would be lying to you if I said it was easy, but I’m willing to try [to listen]” would end up seeming like downright radically progressive, hippie love-in, flower-power moonbeam chatter compared to what others in the comics industry had to say this year about race.

Waid's burnt out. Let him rest.

>>87448036
Forgot to mention that tweet is referring to http://www.tcj.com/the-tcj-2015-year-in-review-spectacufuck-part-i/2/

>Now, the point being made was even more unbelievable! Harvard professor and frequent New Yorker author Jill Lepore had looked at a Marvel Comics Secret War tie-in imaginatively-titled A-Force. Rather than write an in-depth and exhaustive essay about it, as she had with, say, her (quite spectacular) essay on disruptive innovation, Lepore wrote a tongue-in-cheek goof-off piece about how lady superheros looked “ridiculous” and “like porn stars,” and how she had showed A-Force to two boys who were both bored and confused.

>Alternate possible titles for the New Yorker article: “Human Being has Ordinary Reaction”, “Children Prefer Entertainment”, “Serious Writer Decides to Have Some Fun Because Not Everything in Universe Needs to be Taken Seriously”, or “Pagaste por esa mierda, cabron?” (to attract that lucrative Spanish-language audience, at least if Google Translate can be trusted. Thanks, Google Translate!).

>>87448036
>>87448064

So her problem is

>White people are writing about characters who aren't the same color as them and that's MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE

So I guess the solution is segregation? Only whites can write about white characters, blacks can write about black characters, etc.

Sounds like a plan!

I think it's pretty fucking weird that two white men decided to tell this story and describe it as "a deeply personal passion project".

>>87448036
>>87448064
>>87448114
TCJ is true garbage

>>87448226

It was virtue signaling at its finest.

>Hey everybody! Look at how NOT racist we are by pointing out how TOTALLY racist everyone else is! We're holier than thou!

Preachy and boring.

>>87448233
No, just Kosla. Otherwise it's the only comic book website truly worth visiting.

>>87448036
I have literally never heard of this person or site before now and do not give a shit. Stop getting outraged over some no-name SJW.

>>87448324
It also highlights a serious problem with a lot of comic creators these days.

They literally can't write anything but superhero fiction. Even when it's a story about racism in Mississippi, it's actually about Superman.

>>87448203
That wasn't his problem. He's thinking it's funny that Waid was virtue signaling and didn't get the intended response.

Quotes like “two white men are writing and drawing this book about racism and they have already decided that it is about them.” came from http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2015/07/08/the-white-privilege-white-audacity-and-white-priorities-of-strange-fruit-1/

>>87448324
>Preachy and boring.

Yeah, it's an extremely labored and decompressed method of deliver the message "RACISM BAD!"

Wow, so brave and progressive, going out on a limb to make a statement like that. Bravo, Waid. Bravo.

>>87447735
very racist