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By: Mark Whittington

Mark Whittington — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:18:45 +0000

I’m guessing that the writer of the Dust article has not read any MI:13 as he is constantly refering to Dust as Marvels only muslim character while I can think of at least 2 more. I would be interested to see a follow up of that feature about his feelings on Fazia.

By: Neeb

Neeb — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:39:36 +0000

I’m not sure you’d get Hitler- but you do get Transformers 2.

By: SageShini

SageShini — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:56:05 +0000

How about we, as fans, stop being so ridiculously kneejerk and angry about EVERYTHING, and maybe then we’ll have a leg to stand on when a creator says we’re always angry or mean?

By: Wraith

Wraith — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:32:00 +0000

I think this mostly shows how resorting to Nazi comparisons is as unproductive as it is inevitable, at least on the internet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin‘s_law).

By: Kevin Street

Kevin Street — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:43:01 +0000

The Morrison comment just shows how unwise it is to quote people without reference to context.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:31:26 +0000

As a queer bear man, I’m not upset that Anole, Northstar, Wiccan, Shatterstar et al. are portrayed within the comic book idiom of thin to muscled hairless pretty boys, despite the fact that they do not represent my segment of the gay community. Nor am I upset that they often interact with the straight white males that populate the books in which they appear. I’m just happy to see boys kiss boys in my favorite storytelling medium.
When I write, I try to take into consideration the culture of the characters I write, but I have to remember that each character I write is an individual, and cannot be the most positive or most representative of people with similar features. A blonde transgendered character can be no more representative of all transpeople as she can of all blonde people.
At a certain point, one has to move beyond identity politics and recognize people and fictional characters as individuals who cannot be all things to all people.

By: Scott MacIver

Scott MacIver — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:10:14 +0000

““While some may argue that Dust has a lot of potential as a Muslim super-heroine in mainstream comic books, there is a lot of room for improvement. She represents the overly cliché Orientalist stereotype that perpetuates the notion that most Muslim women in the world veil or are obligated to veil by their ‘oppressive’ culture, religion, and/or men.”

I don’t follow. Is he trying to say that she shouldn’t be in comics? That if you can’t touch on all aspects of a culture, then you shouldn’t bother?

How can it be underrepresented and overly cliche?

Dust is a cool character, in my opinion, who acts accordingly to her background. Could there be more muslim characters in comics? Sure. But why try to make Dust all things to all people?

By: J. Jonah

J. Jonah — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:37:49 +0000

I think Grant Morrison meant to specifically refer to the deranged a-holes on the blogs who were over-the-top hyper-critical of Final Crisis and Batman RIP. If you’ve read some of their comments, you’d know they really were completely insane.

Putting Morrison’s comments in that context, what he said is reasonable. He should have been more specific but I don’t think the format of the forum he was in really allowed for it.

By: Marc-Oliver

Marc-Oliver — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:33:33 +0000

That’s two people offended by something Grant Morrison came up with in one round-up.

What is it, 2001?