Meeting went like this: Blah blah blah blah kill the black guy blah blah blah blah why not blah blah blah blah trope blah blah blah blah we’re different blah blah blah Tony loves him blah blah blah Danvers loves him blah blah blah kill the black guy.

*Interventionist side. Not anti-. Danvers is pro-interventionist, and if you want Stark facing off against Rhodey, given Stark’s history after his grievous errors in Civil War 1, you want Rhodey on the pro side and Stark on the anti. But I’m sure that you grok that alternative won’t sell near as many tie in books, or…

It’s hard for me to get too upset about this, because I know he’ll be back eventually.

As a black man and fan of Rhodey, I feel all of this too, Evan. Well written.

At this point, and having been reading comics and, well, stuff, for over 30 years, I’ve come to the conclusion that if you have to kill a character purely to create drama, you suck at writing. This is especially true of the kill the gf/wife/daughter trope—which instantly marks you as mostly talentless to me—but…

This is really powerful, Evan. I always love reading your thoughts, because for the most part it seems like comics are written by people who look like me, for people who look like me, about people who look like me. It’s easy to forget that killing the black guy to raise the stakes is more than just a tired trope.…