obviously I’ve already got a head start with the stuff that we have over on @mcufandomhatespeopleofcolor and I will be covering these things(assume each bullet point is going to be its own video):
Monica Rambeau/Captain Marvel problems
Monica Rambeau/Wandavision problems
colorism with casting of America Chavez and Kamala Khan as lighter than the comics depiction of them. (this might need to be split up into 2 videos)
Riri WIlliams/Ironheart hate.
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Anyways as a reminder I’m mod ali on @mcufandomhatespeopleofcolor and if you feel more comfortable submitting to me on tumblr IM you can use this blog to send hate you find towards these characters/ and their actresses.
Thanks so much!
Sorry I forgot:
Echo hate for another video (you know the deaf amputee from Hawkeye? yeah like I guess if you’re a badass disabled woman of color you don’t deserve your own show)
MARVEL COMICS ANNOUNCE TONY STARK WILL RETIRE AS IRONMAN - PASSES MANTLE ON TO RIRI WILLIAMS!
Marvel Comics have announced that after ‘Civil War II’ Tony Stark will retire as Ironman and the mantle will be passed on to RiRi Williams, a character currently starring in the ‘Invincible Ironman’ series. It’s unclear at this point whether she will use the name Ironman, War Machine, Ironwoman, or another name entirely.
Don Cheadle returns as James Rhodes aka War Machine in Armor Wars, an Original Series coming to DisneyPlus. A classic Marvel story about Tony Stark’s worst fear coming true: what happens when his tech falls into the wrong hands?
Coming soon to DisneyPlus, Dominique Thorne is genius inventor Riri Williams in Ironheart, an Original Series about the creator of the most advanced suit of armor since Iron Man.
In honour of Black History Month coming up (October in the UK) I wanted to do a sorting of my favourite characters from TV, film and comic books. Representation matters. Diversity matters. I’m barely scratching the surface here, but these are some of my favourites.
UUUUGH I’VE NEVER BEEN PROUDER TO BE SLIGHTLY INVOLVED IN A PROJECT
the MIT Pi Day video announcement for the incoming class of 2021 is out, starring the new Iron(wo)man Riri Williams (portrayed by a class of 2018 student) and epically produced by some crazy talented undergrads because Kids These Days. make this your new headcanon
A few pics of my Daredevil cosplay at San Diego Comic Con this year. Ran into Ed Brubaker, who wrote my favorite run in Daredevil history. And was hoping to see Riri Williams cosplay, and I got my wish.
SENTIMENTAL POST WARNING: Highlight of the whole weekend was when I was in my Daredevil costume, a woman who teaches special ed asked me if I could say hi in a video to her student Braden, who is partially blind. She told me each kid in her class has a super hero nickname and his is Daredevil. I told him to stay awesome and never let anyone tell him that he can’t do anything.
Seeing the looks on kid’s faces and hearing them excitedly yell at their parents when they see a hero they love is the best part of comic con.
Say it with me people: These are not The Young Avengers but young Avengers.
The Young Avengers was a specific group that came together because of their particular connection to founding /. important members of The Avengers and a specific purpose. Neither Kamala nor Riri belong here. This group is missing founding member Teddy (Kaplan-)Altman, son of Captain Mar-vell and future king of space.
Last month we learned that Tony Stark would be stepping down as Iron Man, and bequeathing his role to Riri Williams, a young science prodigy who had fashioned her own version of Starks’s Iron Man suit. Now, in a WIRED exclusive, Marvel has revealed that when Williams officially steps into the role this November, she’ll be known as Ironheart.
Writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Stefano Caselli have teamed up to create Ironheart’s beginning in this fall’s Invincible Iron Man #1. While Williams and Stark have recently met in the current run of Invincible Iron Man, the new volume will serve as the official transition into Riri’s Stark-sanctioned heroism.
The new character name, Bendis says, came out of a group discussion with editors.“Iron Woman seemed old fashioned to some,” he says. “Iron Maiden looked like a legal nightmare. And Ironheart, coined by Joe Quesada, after I told him my planned story for Riri, speaks not only to the soul of the character but to the Iron Man franchise as a whole. Tony first put on the armor to save his heart. Riri puts it on for different reasons altogether but still heart-related. When people see her story, you’ll be amazed at how simple and brilliant Joe’s suggestion was.”
Williams, who enrolled at MIT at 15, reverse-engineered a suit of power armor in her dorm room—but that doesn’t mean Stark won’t be part of the Iron Man ethos: Riri’s in-armor A.I. will based on Tony’s own personality. “Regardless of where he might be physically,” says Tom Breevort, who’s editing the series, “he’ll be soaring along with her spiritually.”
Ironheart is yet another signal—along with Kamala Khan as Ms. Marvel, Miles Morales as Spider-Man, Jane Foster as the new Thor, and Amadeus Cho as the Hulk—that Marvel is moving toward a more inclusive universe. And as with so many of those mantle-passings, the original announcement that an African-American woman would replace Tony Stark led to a backlash from the Internet’s comment sectioneers, as well as a separate conversation about the importance of who’s actually telling the stories. But for most, Williams taking the suit has been a celebration. As Bendis told Time earlier this year, “We never had a meeting saying, ‘We need to create this character.’ It’s inspired by the world around me and not seeing that represented enough in popular culture.”
Either way, the cover art of Williams in her suit—along with its variant cover above, depicting Williams admiring her own handiwork—looks great. Now we’ll just have to wait and see if Bendis can tell an Ironheart story as great as the ones he’s given Tony Stark over the years.
Some old Champions doodles circa 2018-2019? i forgot to post them because I felt bad about how unfinished these are but now i feel bad about not posting them haha ^^;
I wanted to practice how I drew them and used a lot of different refs from the issues I was reading at the moment. So this is what my process looks like when I’m in the “research” phase of getting to know new characters - very chaotic lol
That little Robbie in the lower right corner there is just cuz I think he should also be an honorary champion :D
