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From The Creators Of Watchmen And Dark Knight – The Comic That Never Got A Film Because She Was Black

The Martha Washington comic books by Frank Miller and Dave Gibbons mark a highpoint in the careers of both creators. Running through the nineties from the original Give Me Liberty series published by Dark Horse, they told the future-set story of one woman from her birth to her death, and the amazing historical changes that she was a part of, witting and unwitting. Born in a slum, joining the military, becoming a warrior, a leader, an icon, a politician…

And with the writer of Dark Knight, 300 and Sin City, and the artist of Watchmen, it should have been a clear route to options and the silver screen.

But there was one sticking point, The lead character was black and female.

Which, back then, was a no-no. To be fair, not much has improved.

Anyway, Dark Horse is putting out the complete collection in a second edition with a new cover next year.

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Maybe it will be enough for a movie producer to pick up and go "hmmm…. I know those names. Could she be a white man?"

 

 


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

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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