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Police Shoot Another Unarmed Black Man – And It's Spawn

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Spawn263OPT-1-64b62Sometimes, it is worth recalling, with the current emphasis on diversity in comic books, that Todd MacFarlane has been publishing a comic book with a solo black lead for almost 25 years. It's just that Spawn is generally covered from head to toe. The character Al Simmons who has mostly filled that role also has a black wife, black daughter and a black best friend. And today published its 263rd issue.

Which has seen Spawn return to his human, costumeless, powerless state. And without too many clothes, walking through New York, attracting the wrong kind of attention.Spawn263-5-82c6aHe may be resisting arrest, but he is clearly unarmed. Which means, in America…

Image (16)It only gets worse from that moment on.

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Written and drawn  by Todd McFarlane and Erik Larsen – whose Image comic Savage Dragon also has a black lead character now, while a lot of Image Comics attention is given to the brighter newer wunderkinds of Matt Fraction, Ales Kot, Nick Spencer, Kelly Sue DeConnick and the like, it might be worth p[ointing out that the old guard are having a go as well…

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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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