Episode 312: Gotta Catch ‘Em All
on April 6, 2015
and modified on July 6, 2018.
This diversity stuff is, like, complicated!
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Ummmmm . . . Wasn’t their some sort of crisis going on, that they needed to take care of?
I love Dynamo. As a longtime comics fan, I really appreciate the nod to 70s-era attempts at diversity. Oh, Superfriends. You had characters named Samurai and Apache Chief who were none of those things. If you haven’t read Infinite Crisis, there’s a scene between Mr. Terrific and Black Lightning that references the whole “let’s make sure people know which of our characters have dark skin” thing.
Don’t forget that they’ve got a fat guy! That counts as diversity, right?
Not in America – only minorities count, not majorities!
Is GynoStar not Jewish?
Nope. But her hair is! 🙂
I *love* the Venn diagram in the first panel.
My employee newsletter recently used a venn diagram to explain how replacing the 4 head office elevators one at a time would save energy, increase speed and efficiency, and be cost-effective. The three circles didn’t meet in the middle. Even my math-challenged son spewed his coffee when I showed it to him, and The Geek kid cackled madly.
I love his crazy diagram.
Where are Mr. Excellent’s stars?
Ooops! lol I totally forgot them. Thanks for the heads-up. I’ll have to fix it when I get the chance.
Yeah I also thought Gyno-Star was Jewish. Wasn’t there a comic where she ate a bagel and or gave some advice about banking?
http://www.gynostar.com/archives/comic/ethnic-roots
“Again with the Vesica Piscis, I thought Black Dynamo took care of that already!” /sarcasm off/ #Dynomite
If they got a Jewish superhero who uses a wheelchair, that would be a twofer!
Diversity is when you can select two people from your team and there’s a 95% chance they’re not both good-looking white-guys and have at least 2 non good-looking white-guy traits setting them apart.
And yes, that means an entirely gay team of white people doesn’t count. And no, lesbians aren’t different from gay people in that regard.
You forgot that Asians count as white as far as tech/STEM goes.
Dynamo should change his name just to make life easier but also because ” Black Dynamo ” sounds better anyway. I know its shaping up to be a running gag that people keep calling him the wrong name but still
It doesn’t really help that just Dynamo is kinda really generic. It does feel like the sort of superhero name that needs an addition of some sort to feel complete.
As an aside: It’s interesting that everyone knows Blaze is gay. There hasn’t really been anything said against him on that front. So I guess for the various issues, homophobia isn’t one of them.
Haven’t you been listening to to today’s seminar? It would be ‘Dynamo of Color’.
But then if he put his new initials on his costume, he would receive a ‘cease and desist’ order from a certain comic company.
And unfortunately, a portmanteu of “Dynegro” is not something I’d dare speak aloud.
Although now that my mind is in the gutter it won’t stop imagining him in serious drag and with the name “Dyna-ho”. But it’s a long way to hallowe’en.
Meh. If that’s the other option, ” Black Dynamo ” should be the choice.
“But no blind guys! We’ve all seen Daredevil. That guy was just a catastrophe in leather with a rain fetish – we don’t need any of his kind around here!”
Dynamo should just give up and team up with Gyno-Star; then, they could have a team-up called Dyno-Gyno!!!
Dyno-Star! They would already have their own book:
http://www.amazon.com/Dynostar-Menace-Kit-Pedler/dp/0285621807
From the author of Mutant 59! No, really. Check it out.
After the seminar all the participants can get their own sensitivity award. https://www.crownawards.com/StoreFront/GLSTPD6.ALL.Crystal_Awards.Pink_Dynostar_Crystals.prod
This is awesome!