Dwayne McDuffie's Teenage Negro Ninja Thrashers

[PhotoJones]

 

[Dread]

Thankfully, the 80's are now over.

Interesting parody from McDuffie.

 

[PhotoJones]

I totally would have bought that book.

 

[Xofenroht]

I think he typed that to address a problem he noticed in the medium.

 

[PWN3R]

"They have an attractive, white female friend to calm them down when they get too excited."

Sometimes McDuffie can be quite the genius.

 

[shapeshifter]

wow.... just wow. I don't even think what the **** sums it up for me.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

That would've been a hilarious book.

 

[Not Jake]

Yeah, if black people were funny. I mean, I guess the white girl could be really funny. If women were funny

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Women are funny when they try to drive.

 

[fifthfiend]

Or do math!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Or vote.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

Yeah, if black people were funny. I mean, I guess the white girl could be really funny. If women were funny

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Ow, right in the eye.

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

Yeah, if black people were funny. I mean, I guess the white girl could be really funny. If women were funny

White people playing black people is funny. They do all those silly dances and silly voices. If only black people could reach that level of comedic brilliance

 

[TheCorpulent1]

When women play men, all they get are Oscars.

 

[fifthfiend]

Or vote.

Let's not get too crazy now. We all know voting is too important to trust women with it.

 

[Red Mask]

Teenage Negro Ninja Thrashers.
Heroes on the Half-Pipe - Negro Power?

Thank god that never happened. Instead McDuffie's given us the awesome presence of Vixen, Black Lightning, and John Stewart in JLA!

 

[Sloth7d]

We could have done without Black Lightning though. He should have just adapted Static to the DC main stream.

 

[T'Jai]

lovin it

 

[3dman27]

We could have done without Black Lightning though. He should have just adapted Static to the DC main stream.

if memory serves,didn't black lighning PREDATE static?

 

[Harlekin]

Yes, he did.

 

[Sloth7d]

Well, I'm not talking about the old vs the new. I'm talking about an interesting character vs an uninteresting one.

 

[DBM]

Here's the rest of the story on that pitch.

COMIC URBAN LEGEND: Dwayne McDuffie once pitched a series called Teenage Negro Ninja Thrashers.

STATUS: True, in a way.

Tom Brevoort’s Blah Blah Blog is an amazing resource of Marvel history. Be sure to check it out here. You’d be doing yourself a huge favor.

Anyhow, someone asked me about this story awhile ago, and as it turns out, it came courtesy of none other than Tom Brevoort’s awesome blog!

In an entry from last year, Tom explains that, in late 1989, Rocket Racer started showing up again in the pages of Web of Spider-Man…

and Night Thrasher had just debuted in the pages of Thor (along with the rest of the New Warriors)…

McDuffie (then an editor at Marvel), took slight issue with the fact that this was basically a quarter of the black superheroes appearing in Marvel Comics at the time, and they were a bit, well, similar.

This led to McDuffie’s hilarious parody pitch…Teenage Negro Ninja Thrashers.


Classic!!

So yes, technically, Dwayne McDuffie really did make a pitch for Teenage Negro Ninja Thrashers.

And yes - his point was well taken.

A few years later, McDuffie would launch Milestone Comics, which gave us a great many amazing black heroes, most notable (in my opinion, at least) being Static and Icon and Rocket.

Imagine that - making a point and also doing something about it?

Well done by McDuffie.

Thanks to Tom Brevoort again, for such an awesome comic history resource! And for posting the pitch.

From:
http://goodcomics.comicbookresource...c-book-urban-legends-revealed-138/#more-14040

 

[TheCorpulent1]

We could have done without Black Lightning though. He should have just adapted Static to the DC main stream.

I think there's still some issue with Milestone that prevents DC from using their characters.

 

[PhotoJones]

I thought Milestone was an imprint of DC.