![]() ![]() ![]() In the same story arc, there’s a wise, old Sudanese shaman that Constantine seeks out to info-dump lore on his pretty blonde head this shaman isn’t a character, he’s a requisite plot point. The treatment of characters of color is particularly bad the only character with agency is Papa Midnite, a Black Haitian voodoo practitioner who helps Constantine stop a plague demon originating from Sudan (in issues #1 and #2, “Hunger” and “A Feast of Friends”), and if it isn’t obvious from those set of words alone, a Black dude named MIDNITE (is it because his soul is dark or just his skin?) that practices VOODOO (makes him evil, obviously) is insulting when he is the only Black character to be found for 200+ pages. ![]() I’ve been Twitter-adjacent too long to be anything but annoyed at this particular combination of the abrasive & crass with progressive politics as told through a white lens because so often, that particular perspective hurts and/or excludes those they claim to ally with and then shields itself by claiming that authenticity, realism, or grit excuses the narrative of whatever harm it might cause. ![]() Original Sins starts as a monster-of-the-week hardboiled horror comic that frankly put me off from its dated and distasteful takes. ![]()
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