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That was such a good story to include in this. You can see why they wanted something that was about women and the story itself is about something that people see as 'typical women stuff'.

But it blends modern speech patterns with something that feels fairy-tale like.

Oh! I actually really liked this 'continuation'.

"...and after everything we did for this hateful community."

Whelp, that is everything you need to know.

Who was my first Black superhero?

I want to say Storm from the X-Men. We had such reverence for her in my household. But I think Static Shock was the first one I actually liked. And this was through the cartoon. Ahh I can still hear the theme song now.

*facepalm* I thought this part was also originally in the comic. The typesetting is to blame 😅.

Good to see that they were also struggling with the portrayal of Bubba.

Fascinating.

Funny to see Eleanor Roosevelt name her. The more I learn about her, the more I end up admiring her. Fascinating woman. She truly deserves to be reminded as herself first instead of 'wife of'.

This kind of storytelling is very familiar and somewhere in my brain is lighting up. I sort of remember reading about a 'landloper' walking through the countryside and, tried to steal something? Got kicked out? He had a 'knapzak', sack of stuff hanging off a stick, and just wandered everywhere.

This is gonna bug me.

"Heh! -what have we here? Some new kind of animal?"

Yeah, the doctor must die. Just with one sentence you just know what kind of man he is. I do admire the creator for accomplishing that.

"Dr. Blut Sangro"

Blut is German for blood right? What does Sangro mean?

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Apparently also blood in Spanish 🤣

Zero fucks were given and I totally get it.

STOP IT! Who remembers a certain ad about hungry children in Afrika? And for the longest time you would never see kids from Africa portrayed in any other way. Except when they were playing football (soccer for the heathens).

This is going to sound so ignorant but if he is American-born, college educated and a scientist why is his name 'Lion Man'?

Was his last name really Man? First name Lion? Is this a case for r/Tragedeigh'?

Oh man Ezekiel and Tom. Those are both names that have such a history behind it depending on the demographic you are part of.

Fascinating.

For some reason I have this urge to say: "That story was wack."

I watched Not Another Teen Movie way too many times as a teenager.

... Actually how old was I really? I am not looking that up. I do not need that in my life.

"What's she going to do? Fix him some dinner?"

"Shucks no! Pickin' flowers. Just like a woman."

Okay. Calm down. She lives in the water. Why would she make him dinner? She just met him! That unnecessarily rude.

I'm sorry I know I should concentrate on the story but some of the sentences are just too good:
"Two vicious young hep-cats, new to crime,"

Do I know what it means? Nope.
Is it cool as hell? Sure is.

I have to find a way to sneak that into my vocabulary: 'Twee venijnige (?)-katten', ...wait.

What does 'hep' mean?!

😳 I thought they were detectives!

"He's a cool fool now," excellent sentence though.

"Early morning in Pop's Bar-B-Que shack --before the early morning sharp chicks and smooth studs drift in-----"

This already made me laugh despite not knowing the slang. It does set the tone!

Aw man... My star rating will be complicated.

I do not know where I saw someone talking about this. I suspect someone on YouTube. Which is kind of a shame because I would like to shout them out. This is something I would never have seen in my country but it compiles all my special interests: comics, history and Black people (that sounds absurd now that I am writing it down but cannot come up with something better)

I have just been approved to have the ARC. I am so very excited.