Conceptually, I like to imagine a casual reader picking up the book and not being sure what they are reading. Is it reprints? Is this an old character? It’s a contrast to the African-American characters that Marvel and DC published in the ’70s, like Black Lightning and Luke Cage,” Rugg continued. “As much as those characters were an attempt to jump on the blaxploitation movie trend, they fell way short. They weren’t the hard antiheroes that Superfly, the Mack, and Sweetback were. They were sellouts, compromised to satisfy editorial or the Comics Code or some self-imposed obligation to liberal political correctness. To achieve that comparison, I thought it was vital that the art and colors look like that era.
— Rugg Raps About “Afrodisiac” - Comic Book Resources
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