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Racism Vs. Superman? Mark Waid And JG Jones' Strange Fruit Announced By Boom At ComicsPRO

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boomadBoom have announced a second comic at the ComicsPRO retailer meet taking place in Portland. Strange Fruit is a new comic written by Mark Waid with fully painted artwork by JG Jones coming from Boom – and it as been some time coming.

People at ComicsPRO tell me that it will take place in 1927, as a black superpowered being lands in the racial and social quagmire of Mississippi. The Superman parallels are meant to be apparent, it seems, and I am told "In fact, was that Kal-el's rocket that just crashed?"

I am told the story is intended to confront racism, slavery and the heroic myth. The title is from the Billie Holliday song, originally written as a poem by Abel Meeropol, about racist lynchings of the South

Read more of our ComicsPRO coverage here.

 

Racism Vs. Superman? Mark Waid And JG Jones' Strange Fruit Announced By Boom At ComicsPRO

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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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