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challenging
dark
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Want a license to kill? Join the police force. It blows my mind that with all that is happening, we keep being reminded that if cops weren't allowed to beat and murder with impunity, no one would become cops. What does that say about our current system?
APB: Artists Against Police Brutality is a reminder that cries of 'LAW & ORDER!' And 'tough on crime' just means 'brutalize, incarcerate, and murder Black people!'
And cops know that they have the permission to do that.
There are so many great stories and essays by so many great authors!
I love superhero stories and The Pikesman - 'the people's crusader' is the hero we need right now. Unfortunately, superheroes don't exist to leave us off the hook to do the work ourselves. (Story by Gary Phillips; art by Rafael Desquitado Jr.)
I loved Waldah Imarisha's fantastic essay, Alternatives to Policing and the Superhero Model. She makes some fantastic points, referencing Watchmen, Batman, X-Men, the fantastic comic Race to incarcerate, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer!
Maybe now I'll go read her anthology Octavia's Brood which has been sitting on my shelf waiting for me.
APB: Artists Against Police Brutality is a reminder that cries of 'LAW & ORDER!' And 'tough on crime' just means 'brutalize, incarcerate, and murder Black people!'
And cops know that they have the permission to do that.
There are so many great stories and essays by so many great authors!
I love superhero stories and The Pikesman - 'the people's crusader' is the hero we need right now. Unfortunately, superheroes don't exist to leave us off the hook to do the work ourselves. (Story by Gary Phillips; art by Rafael Desquitado Jr.)
I loved Waldah Imarisha's fantastic essay, Alternatives to Policing and the Superhero Model. She makes some fantastic points, referencing Watchmen, Batman, X-Men, the fantastic comic Race to incarcerate, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer!
Maybe now I'll go read her anthology Octavia's Brood which has been sitting on my shelf waiting for me.
'We see through Buffy, though, that instead of looking to external forces such as the police to ensure our safety, we have to activate the Slayer, the superhero in all of us; share the responsibility for the health, safety, and wholeness of our community; and use our collective power to reshape the world around us.'
I love the way this sentence (intentionally or not) speaks to my white privilege. If I'm not part of the solution, I'm part of the problem.
I'll leave you with a quote from the book:
'The only crime you committed was living in America while being Black. A crime that seems to be punishable by death.'
acesnsk8s's review
5.0
This is a wonderful anthology, but I think it sells itself short as a comic book anthology. It has comics and cartoons, sure, but also stories and essays that are powerful and informative in their own right.
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