Crisis Weekly, four weeks down!

I just posted Crisis Weekly #4.

Four weeks and four different crises, all of them ripped from the real world (a scandal, a presidential assassination, a school shooting), with the latest being...a black man is pulled over unjustifiably by a white cop. 

The only way this would've been more relevant is if the black man had been shot dead.  But the black man in this instance is one-time Justice Leaguer Bloodwynd, and the cop is Guy Gardner.  The unprovoked pullover is itself an all-too common occurrence.  The black community views it as residual institutional racism, and it's been one of the things that has contributed to the heated nature of our times.  Guy Gardner has never been portrayed as racist.  I've been playing a little fast and loose with him in Crisis Weekly.  He has been known, for most of his appearances, as brash.  What I've been doing with him isn't so much out of character as implied as highly possible if he existed in the real world.  Even if he doesn't mean to come off as racist, he's the kind of guy (heh) who could very easily appear to be, and might even be, even if just a little.  Racism in its benign form is prejudice, the inability to look beyond one's own perspective.  To be, in other words, a fairly rude individual, when confronted with strangers.  Guy doesn't care who he offends.

The other benefit of this unfortunate encounter is that it unites Guy and Bloodwynd from their experiences in the first and second installments of Crisis Weekly, begins to move along the narrative of the White Martian crisis, the fictional construct that grounds the otherwise real world problems in a familiar superhero context.  And for the third time in four weeks, there are also bats, of which we are getting closer to finding out about, too.  Much sooner than the White Martians, actually.

And this rounds out the first month of Crisis Weekly!  Wow!