Still, the back story of a character like Ellis can have deep resonance for readers of color. Sometimes time travel or parallel worlds are involved, as with Calvin Ellis, where history developed differently and as a result so did its heroes. Characters are sometimes replacements who temporarily don Batman’s cowl or borrow Iron Man’s armor.
Heroes like Superman and Spider-Man are often recast within comic stories, though rarely permanently. “For every one female character, every one Black character, every one Latino character, every one queer character, there’s 20 or 30 that aren’t those things.” Walker, a comic book writer, filmmaker and author. “I didn’t see a lot of representation that included myself or my friends and family when I was a kid growing up,” said David F. The possibility of a nontraditional Superman getting his chance at the spotlight is a welcome notion to many. In his reality, he was the most powerful man on Earth twice-over: He was Superman and the president of the United States. In the narrative, Ellis came from an alternate version of Earth. “I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-El, to save the planet Earth.”Īnd a couple of months prior, the artist Alex Ross made a painting of Obama depicting him in a Clark Kent-like pose with an unbuttoned shirt revealing his costume - this one with an “O” instead of an “S” - underneath.Īll of this inspired the comic book writer Grant Morrison: Why not create a Black Superman?Īnd so was born Calvin Ellis, a Black Man of Steel brought to life by Morrison and the artist Doug Mahnke, who envisioned the character as a beacon of hope who would fight alongside Superman and the other heroes of DC Comics in an apocalyptic story line titled Final Crisis, which ran from 2008 to 2009. “Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger,” he said.
In 2008, during his presidential campaign, Barack Obama told a joke at a charity event.
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