racial politics

Legendary Star Trek actor and social activist George Takei has spoken out against Warner Bros. Pictures' alleged plans to cast a live-action version of the classic Japanese animated film, AKIRA, with Caucasian leads rather than Asian actors...

Dan DiDio talks with Kiel Phegley over at CBR, and the conversation strays to the racial politics of the DC Universe, something we've talked about before on ComicsAlliance. DiDio acknowledges the concerns over the death of former Atom Ryan Choi, but dismisses the idea that there have been minority deaths or legacy regressions with negative implications for the racial diversity of the DC Univers

In this month's comic book solicitations, it's been revealed that Ray Palmer is making a return to comics as the Atom, following in the footsteps of characters like Hal Jordan and Barry Allen in what I like to call "regressive storytelling...