Wednesday, November 11, 2026

UPenn's exhibit for Black heroes and creators

KYW Newsradio reported about the University of Pennsylvania's Black heroes and creators exhibit, and one of the examples cited is a more recent creation of Brian Bendis that became an early example of DEI propaganda:
Curated by Penn Associate Vice Provost Sean Quimby and Curator of Civic Engagement Samantha Hill, The Black Hero’s Journey aims to tell the origin stories of popular heroes like Black Panther, Miles Morales, Storm and Luke Cage, among others.
What is so special about Morales that makes it so important to add Bendis' pedestrianly written creation to the list? If the character's put on display sans any objectivity regarding the stories he appeared in, that's what makes this part of the exhibit an absurd joke. Similarly, if any modern stories appear without an objective view, that too makes this into a mockery.

I think it'd work a lot better if they'd find a suitable cutoff point when it comes to the majors, and focus from that point on the independents. But as this news makes clear, they won't do it that way, and it's regrettable if they think a creation written up for the sake of political propaganda is such a big deal when nothing was done since to make Morales' creation worth it. After all, he was introduced to serve as a mixed-race Spider-Man in costume, and nobody considers that Peter Parker, as the original Spidey, was created to serve as an individual with his own agency, not to serve as a springboard for more characters wearing the same costume, and even Jessica Drew's Spider-Woman costume doesn't look the same as Peter's. When a character's only introdued for the sake of starring as the "Spidey of another ethnicity/race/sex", not for meat and potatoes storytelling, so it takes away the seriousness even from the very exhibit that's apparently highlighting Morales now. That doesn't help the exhibit well.

Labels: , , , , , ,

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home

Flag Counter


track people
webpage logs
Flag Counter