Holler at my homey from Poisonous Paragraphs because he be dropping that official comic book flavor too.
Dagger was a chick named Tandy Bowen who ran away from a privileged life of wealth to become an angel and protector for runaways and kids that were hooked on heroin and drugs. Her partner was a brother named Tyrone(seriously, Marvel writers were always infected with Lowest Common Denominator syndrome when creating Black characters, Cloak is just lucky they didn’t name him Black Cloak). Together they formed the duo of Cloak and Dagger.
Dagger had one of the baddest little bum-bums in the Marvel universe, and she was in love with a Black man. How fucking hot is that? She protected Cloak from himself because his power of enveloping darkness always threatened to consume his soul. Her power was to be able to create bursts of bright, white light from her hands.
Can you imagine for a second what she could shoot from her pum pum?
definetley a slept on series….i didnt have many, but when they did cross my grubby hands they were always hot
this comic always depressed me.
re-reading these comics now as a twentysomething, i stay imagining who’s sexier with it: dazzler or dagger?
come to think of it, they’re both the same chick:
-ran from nice homes with w.a.s.p. lifestyles
-rocked the white catsuit (initially for dazzler)
-never stayed in marvel’s big leagues
-light powers (dazz changes sound to light)
-entertainment a big part of their life (ballet, sanging)
what more can be thought of?
>Can you imagine for a second what she could shoot from her pum pum?
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She got that Eryka Badu Pum
White Comic chicks did have black asses for real.
Ditto on the Dazzler thing.
Yeah Dagger’s ass is the truth. I can’t recall the last time my wood got petrified from seeing a cartoon woman. [||] on describing my wood
This is what makes voluptuous women body type, in their prime/heyday, so awesome. For instance like Beyonce, Serena, Kim Kardashian today, or Jennifer Lopez 5 yrs ago.
It’s like their real-life bodies are almost cartoonish, almost defying gravity. How can the T&A be so juicy & large, with still a slim/6-pack stomach?
1 real annoying thing is the waif white women on the TV media will describe a Serena like “it’s good that ‘plus-size’ women are accepted in our culture”.
No you waif douche generic broad! A waif women can’t add 20 lbs & magically look like Serena or Kardashian. No, if a waif woman tries that, she’ll just be actual normal healthy body weight (since waif = anorexic), but still have a pancake non-existent ass & small breasts.
The vuluptuous woman body steez is mostly genetic.
Send these waif/Cosmo type biatches back to an Obvious Human Health seminar 101, taught by the Chair of Bootyology, Dr. Sir Mix A Lot.
Although I grew up on Marvel I found it somewhat boring and repetitive that every black superhero seemed to be either a super genius overcoming the ghetto life while all around him was awash in criminality or they themselves were criminals who became “heroes” i.e Luke Cage, Black Falcon etc. But still I rise. Now on to “Cloak and Dagger” ah what can I say, let me see. I liked it for the change of pace attitude from the normal super villian vs super hero duke em out but alot of things about it just didnt set right with me. Cloak (before becoming cloak) was contemplating robbing Dagger before he was beaten to the punch. Why again with the criminal/reformed to hero? Now on to their powers. NOt to get racial but genetically caucasians are not white per se they display a lack of pigment which can be interpreted as being white. Black people arent per se black but display an abundance of pigment. Why is this relevant at all? Because I feel Cloak and Dagger plays on racial stereotypes held by the patriarchal racist machine that powers everything in this world albeit on a subconcious level(for some). Pigment is the protection from light and heat, it powers the human body and spirit a lack of pigment is ….well, something opposite. WIthout getting too racial I will just say Cloak should have been the one emitting light daggers and Dagger should have been the one with the overwhelming fear of the darkness consuming her. Anyway, thats just my opinion. I get to Luke Cage, Rage and Snap Wilson later!
Freddie Lee,
Thank you for doing my job for me. There is always a supremacists bent on superheroes if you separate yourself from the fantasy and objectively examine the characters and their situations. This is because the writers are reflecting their programming and their upbringing. Without any interaction with Blacks previously, these writers fictionalize all Blacks (always used for lack of a greater term) as people mired in eternal poverty.
One of my responsibilities to my community will be to highlight the stories presented by the writers and artists that envision Black heroes from outside the filters of supremacy. For starters, peep this writer/author who occasionally drops by DP Dot Com…
Detective Boogaloo
Yo U need to put that Thirstin Howl “Dream of fukin a cartoon bitch” after this post..that song is hilarious
no way marvel drew that top pic gawd…her ass crazy.
Freddie Lee Says:
September 7th, 2007 at 11:59 am
Although I grew up on Marvel I found it somewhat boring and repetitive that every black superhero seemed to be either a super genius overcoming the ghetto life while all around him was awash in criminality or they themselves were criminals who became “heroes” i.e Luke Cage, Black Falcon etc. But still I rise. Now on to “Cloak and Dagger” ah what can I say, let me see. I liked it for the change of pace attitude from the normal super villian vs super hero duke em out but alot of things about it just didnt set right with me. Cloak (before becoming cloak) was contemplating robbing Dagger before he was beaten to the punch. Why again with the criminal/reformed to hero? Now on to their powers. NOt to get racial but genetically caucasians are not white per se they display a lack of pigment which can be interpreted as being white. Black people arent per se black but display an abundance of pigment. Why is this relevant at all? Because I feel Cloak and Dagger plays on racial stereotypes held by the patriarchal racist machine that powers everything in this world albeit on a subconcious level(for some). Pigment is the protection from light and heat, it powers the human body and spirit a lack of pigment is ….well, something opposite. WIthout getting too racial I will just say Cloak should have been the one emitting light daggers and Dagger should have been the one with the overwhelming fear of the darkness consuming her. Anyway, thats just my opinion. I get to Luke Cage, Rage and Snap Wilson later!
Dart Adams says:
Wait until I drop my 2 part series on Black superheroes/characters throughout history and their portrayals called “Black Like Me” later on this month on http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/
One.
G.L.O. (Good Lookin’ Out) on that, DP – you my man. I still got you on that TRON joint.
is her suit painted on???? it all up in places and stuff…
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