Just asking:
If all Bendis characters essentially "sound" the same in their dialogue (and they do)...
...And if Bendis can write characters of Canadian, Russian, East European, Greek, and gosh-knows-where-else origins without having to phonetically spell out their accents in the word balloons...
...Then why, exactly, is it that when a non-Caucasian person shows up...
...we're suddenly in cartoon stereotype dialect country? What is this, Jive Time Jimmy's Revenge?
Once more, with feeling:
Oh, dear...Perhaps Jericho Drumm has been attending Black Acting School...
Sweet Christmas, that panel comes from this week's New Avengers #53.
If all Bendis characters essentially "sound" the same in their dialogue (and they do)...
...And if Bendis can write characters of Canadian, Russian, East European, Greek, and gosh-knows-where-else origins without having to phonetically spell out their accents in the word balloons...
...Then why, exactly, is it that when a non-Caucasian person shows up...
...we're suddenly in cartoon stereotype dialect country? What is this, Jive Time Jimmy's Revenge?Once more, with feeling:
Oh, dear...Perhaps Jericho Drumm has been attending Black Acting School...Sweet Christmas, that panel comes from this week's New Avengers #53.
Oh. Dear. Lord.
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Yeah, baby, spot on. Don't dare do the defy-lement business on us.
Brian Bendis sits in front of his computer working on the latest Avengers masterpiece:"They call me Brother...no...brotha...naw...sup homies!...not quite...holla!...naw....Brudder! yeah thats the ticket!
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