Martian Manhunter Needs His Own Show
How come it seems like there’s no love for the Martian Manhunter out in these streets? The Martian Manhunter, aka
Racebending
Casting Wally West and the Redundant Anger Over the Diverse Flash
In the only casting choice that makes sense in the African-American family of Joe and Iris West from TV’s The
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Racebending’s Super Asian America Comic-Con Panel
A week ago, I recounted my 48-hour adventure in San Diego. The main reason I was able to return to
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If you ever get the chance to attend Comic-Con International in San Diego, you should probably do the complete opposite
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Elodie Yung is Elektra in Daredevil Season Two
Last night, the trades broke the news that Marvel Studios had finally cast Elektra for the second season of Daredevil,
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Join the N.O.C. at Comic-Con in San Diego
Can you feel it in the air? It’s officially Comic-Con week, and we are happy to announce that for the
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Finding the Right (White) Actor to Cast in that Non-White Role
Over the past weekend, The Hollywood Reporter released an article about the heightened alert placed on ethnic casting. The article
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Asians Get #EmmaStoned (Again) in The Martian
Last week, we spent a lot of time on the blog discussing the erasure of people of color — particularly
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James Wan to Direct Jason Momoa in Aquaman
Last night, Warner Brothers made waves across the geek-o-system by finally announcing a director for its solo Aquaman movie, due
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These Actresses are Not Asian or Pacific Islanders
Depending on where you stake your claim on the internet, there has been a lot of chatter about a movie
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Hollywood’s Strange Erasure of Asian Characters
Originally posted at Reappropriate A mere week after I wrote a post swearing off of sharing fan news, the fandom
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Hey Hollywood, How’s That Bigotry Paying Off For You?
On Friday news broke that after a year of struggling in the ratings, NBC is canceling its freshman comic book series,
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White Canary and Arrow’s Habit of Whitewashing
It’s no secret that we are huge fans of Arrow and the whole universe of DC heroes on The CW.
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Orange is the New Black: Racebending Redheads
The ever-expanding DC Universe on The CW just got a little bigger. Relative newcomer Ciara Renee has been cast as
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Our Toxic Remake Culture: Why Do We Insist on Making the Same Old White-Guy Movies?
Originally posted on Salon.com Like it or not — despite the many, many hectoring jeremiads by the people who fall
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Enter the GTFOH
On March 21, 2015 Ain’t it Cool dropped the mother, father, cousin, and incarcerated uncle of all bombshells: Brett Ratner
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Enter the White Privilege
Over the weekend Ain’t It Cool News revealed that the internet’s favorite hack director Brett Ratner is interested in remaking
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Luther Remake Stalls: What Happened to Colorblind Casting?
by Marc Bernardin | Originally posted at Playboy.com Fox wants to bring the BBC’s award-winning, frankly awesome detective thriller Luther
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White People’s Superheroes
Hard NOC Life emerges from its winter hibernation, and you can thank Michelle Rodriguez for that. After telling TMZ POCs
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How the Diversity Argument in the Nerd Community Chases its Own Tail
by William Evans | Originally posted at Black Nerd Problems I don’t usually, and don’t plan to be the guy
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Blerd Boost for Supergirl: Mehcad Brooks Cast as Jimmy Olsen
It looks like Greg Berlanti is trying to own all of superhero broadcast television. He’s involved in two of the
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Big Hero 6 Shows That an Asian American Cast Can Top the Box Office
by Adriel Luis | Originally posted at Smithsonian APA NOW This past weekend’s box office numbers are in, and Disney’s
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Lost in Translation: Scarlett Johansson and ‘Ghost in the Shell’
As our friend Angry Asian Man pointed out earlier this week, Scarlett Johansson has been offered the role of Major
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