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Dwayne McDuffie actually had a pretty damn prolific career as a writer, including the Justice League and System Shock cartoons, but why Dick Grasper considers him important is that he’s like one of the only two or three black people who worked in mainstream comics significantly enough for comic nerds to actually name them off-hand.
Personally, I’ll always remember him as the dude who indirectly caused the pre-tumblr comic book feminist blogs to implode and start falling apart.
You see, Mcduffie wrote the above scene involving Storm, which soon caused all the white geek girl bloggers to yell about how that was totally not muh Storm!! and how racist the writer must be to have written a scene portraying a strong black female character as being overly defensive about her hair.To which the black geek girl bloggers replied with, “Um, that writer’s black, also, that’s probably the closest Storm has ever come to being written as an actual black woman in twenty years.” Now I’m paraphrasing a bit here, but the white girls’ rebuttal to this was basically “Shut up, blackies, Storm is our character, now get to the back of the bus like good little negros, until we need to parade you around to qualify for out diversity and intersectional* cred again!”
Most of the various blogs like Girl Wonder.org and such still stuck around after this, but this incident seemed to really let the wind out their sails and people stopped paying attention to them for a bit. ’Course then tumblr came around and resurrected their shrieking asses, only louder and with even more victim complexes as a part of the SJW movement… but that’s another story.
*okay, I’m pretty sure ‘intersectional’ didn’t actually exist as a code word for ‘let’s set aside oppression olympics arguments for now and just blame everything on cishet white guys’ at this point, but you get the idea..
