With most superheroes, when you take away the colorful costume, mask and cape, what you find underneath is a white man.
But not always. In February, as part of a continuing effort to diversify its offerings, Marvel Comics will begin a series whose lead character, Kamala Khan, is a teenage Muslim girl living in Jersey City.
She’s “strong and beautiful” and has moved beyond her “baggage of being Pakistani and ‘different.’”
(READ the story in the New York Times)
Image by Marvel Comics
So being a white superhero is bad now? Why was it that it was so important to bring color into it?
Nobody said or inferred that being a white superhero is bad. Why did you write that?