![]() ![]() And while I’m not presenting that ideology as a good thing, I do hope that there is a little bit of humanity in the bad guys in our version.” “You can’t set up cardboard villains anymore. “I feel like we do go at it hard, but I also feel like modern storytelling sensibilities require more nuance than you can get away with in the 1940s,” Yang tells us. So when we had a chance to talk with Gene Luen Yang about his new book, Superman Smashes the Klan, it was one of the first things we asked about. Where everything shy of uttering a racial slur in anger is merely “denounced by some as racist” or “racially charged.” So it’s easy to be concerned, when you hear about a new comic project about Superman taking on the Ku Kux Klan, that the story might be so slathered in euphemism as to be rendered entirely inert, even when it’s written by one of the sharpest minds in comics. ![]() We currently live in a world where powerful bigots “fan the flames of a racial fire” instead of stoke violence with their savage racism. ![]()
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