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Also watched / read:
ANIMATED TV SHOWS
- Dead End: Paranormal Park.
Terrific all-ages mystery with horror touches, notable also for a trans gay boy being one of the leads. Based on a webcomic (that is, shall we say, intended for an older audience). Good atmosphere and intriguing plot.
- The legend of the three caballeros.
Something of a cult show, or perhaps a bridge between 90’s Disney cartoons (off-the-wall approaches to classic characters) and their current-day counterparts (a more cynical humor and a teensy bit of envelope-pushing). Very entertaining.
COMICS
- DC Pride 2022.
- DC Pride: Tim Drake Special.
- Marvel Voices: Pride (2022).
- Marvel Voices: Indigenous Voices.
- Marvel Voices: Heritage.
- Marvel Voices: Comunidades.
Assorted anthologies from the ‘big two’ (re: mainstream American superhero comics) centered on minorities —three about queer characters, two about Native American characters, one about Latino characters. All offer a welcome variety in their approaches to themes and representation. All feel like they could have gone much farther, but it is very much a step in the right direction.
MOVIES
- Black Panther. (Re-watched)
Holds up remarkably well less as representative of the by now bloated genre of live action superhero movies —than as the film that brought Afrofuturism to the mainstream. Still worth at least one watch.
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