Banned, Boycotted, or Bad Sales: Why Comics Really Get Canceled

People love to say comics got political recently. Jardo and D'Marcus go back 85 years and prove that is a lie.

They run a game called Banned, Boycotted, or Bad Sales on ten canceled comics, then get into the real history. Superman taking on the Klan in 1946.

The Green Lantern panel where a Black man asks Hal Jordan why he has never helped anybody with Black skin. And John Stewart's 1971 debut, where DC's first Black superhero refuses to guard a racist senator and turns out to be the only one who read it right.

Plus what Kevin Feige actually said about DEI and the review bombing numbers that show the difference between a review and a campaign. Follow Black Geek Energy so you never miss an episode, and tell us what political comic you loved before you realized it was political.

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