I like any kind of horror if it’s well done! I hope you’ve checked out Event Horizon for some good transdimensional goodness.

Yep. Some people didn’t like that they switched the races of the protagonist and Sennia Nanua’s awesome little zombie girl, with the teacher being black and the girl being white in the book, if I recall correctly. They had the kneejerk reaction of “oh, so the MONSTER is BLACK, I SEE HOW IT IS” and it’s like, no,…

That’s awesome!

Romero definitely knew what he was doing. This’ll be my third comment in a row mentioning the movie, but Girl With All The Gifts has a similar motif going on used to great effect, as well. Day is the least popular of the original Dead trilogy, but I always thought it was a very underrated movie.

Society collapsing is definitely a common motif, both in fiction and the news, but the zombies winning has been a staple of the genre since Dawn of the Dead and Zombi 2. I think it’s just the natural progression of the story in many ways, zombies can’t be stopped, society crumbles, society starts over. It was used…

Originally, certainly. With the rise of movie makeup and special effects, zombies look less than regular people than ever. The zombie has evolved a lot since the communism days. Nowadays, zombies are as likely to be runners than walkers.

This, by the way, is also why The Girl With All The Gifts is the best zombie movie to come along since Shaun of the Dead. I will argue all day that the people who complained about the racial changes of the cast from book to movie DO NOT GET IT. If they never make another zombie movie again, Girl (yes, I’m giving it…

Sure, but you go from getting in trouble for being a smartass to getting in trouble for calling your m8s “cunts” in the US.

It’s easier to argue that the classic zombie movies were more influenced by fears about America’s enemies at the time, and I believe a lot of the recent zombie renaissance was inspired by the big zombie movies of the 80's and 90's (Dawn ..., Day ..., Return of the Living Dead, et cetera, even Resident Evil on the PS1…

And there’s no question in my mind that when The Coon was introduced, the fundamental underpinnings of this joke are: The Coon was introduced in an episode called “The Coon.” The whole joke is that the name is a racial slur but the character itself is in no way racist. He’s a raccoon. And he does raccoon things and he…

Also, he’s like 27 in high school.

I was half expecting “the CG hair in Ronja just freaked me the fuck out, so I really had no choice”.

Disirregardlessly.

Why?

I definitely enjoyed your list, I just like diving into the deep end when comics come up! :) It always makes me sad when people say there aren’t any black superheroes, because not that there aren’t always room for more, but there’s a ton of genuinely great characters that just don’t get the attention A-list names get.

Waller is faaar too complicated to just be labeled “evil” (or “good”!). :) I’m glad she’s had appearances across multiple media (including being played by Pam Grier!), because she’s one of the most interesting powerplayers in the DCU.

I’ve never actually read Lobo, though I’ve some experience with other Dell Comics titles. I should check it out, if nothing else for historical importance.

Bishop was cool as fuck. I was more of an X-Factor guy in the 90's (Peter David is my jam), but Bishop was an essential part of the golden age of the X-titles ruling comics.

True (though I haven’t been keeping up, but I believe that’s correct), but Al Simmons is the Eddie Brock of Spawn - the main guy most people think of.

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