{"id":15141,"date":"2015-10-18T01:03:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T08:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2015\/10\/18\/15141.html"},"modified":"2015-10-18T01:03:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T08:03:10","slug":"awesome-new-forthcoming-ultima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2015\/10\/18\/awesome-new-forthcoming-ultima\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome new forthcoming Ultimates series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I'm <em>really<\/em> looking forward to the new <cite>Ultimates<\/cite> comic book series. The team will consist of Ms. America, Black Panther, Blue Marvel, Spectrum, and Captain Marvel&mdash;which means that this team of powerhouse heroes, brought together to fight cosmic-scale threats to the world, includes no white men. I'm a big fan of the three women, and I'm looking forward to getting to know Black Panther and Blue Marvel better.<\/p>\n<p>Especially because the series will be written by Al Ewing, the writer for <cite>Loki: Agent of Asgard<\/cite>, which was my favorite series of the last n years. Here's what Ewing said in an <a href=\"http:\/\/comicsalliance.com\/al-ewing-ultimates-interview\/\">interview<\/a> a couple months ago in response to a question about diversity in comics:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I think it's important in the way that a roof is important. If you're moving into a building and the landlord says &ldquo;oh, and we have&mdash;get this&mdash;a <em>roof<\/em>! <em>And four walls<\/em>! We're not just a hole someone dug in the street!&rdquo;, you don't start giving out medals for that. That's just a basic thing that ought to be standard. It's just fiction reflecting reality&mdash;there are all kinds of people in the world, and we should reflect that properly and try not to screw up. To be honest, I think there's a long way to go in a lot of ways, both on the page and off.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you want a preview of the series, see the just-published <cite>Avengers<\/cite> #0, which exists only to introduce the six new post-reboot Avengers-related series. The best sequence, imo, is the one (written by Ewing) that features Ms. America healing a rift in spacetime by dancing with her date, who by the way is a (white) woman.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really looking forward to the new Ultimates comic book series. The team will consist of Ms. America, Black Panther,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,47,11,23,95,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-gender","category-improving-society","category-queer","category-race-ethnicity","category-writers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}