BSC blather.

[impy]

So, was anyone going to tell me that the graphic novels were making Logan Bruno decidedly not white or was I just supposed to stumble across that on the internet for myself?

I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, you do you, boo. I am woefully behind on my graphic novels (and I'm currently pissed as fucking shit at Amazon for unrelated business) but it does kind of pose a problem.

Jessi's intro storyline leans heavily on the fact that Stoneybrook is shocked, shocked I say, that Jessi's family is black in their very, very white community. Logan not being white (to say nothing of the background characters there) kinda means this shouldn't be a thing... but it's also very much part of Jessi's story. So. Whatcha gonna do, books?



Finally, where the hell is my Netflix BSC show? I have been waiting impatiently for what feels like forever! Kristy Thomas would never keep me hanging like this. :P

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[venivididolli]

THAT IS NOT CAM GEARY.

This is actually my first time seeing the cover or I totally would have told you.

I wonder if he's still Southern.

The GNs do seem more diverse and modern. I'm still miffed Hannie is now black, because it's not like YA world...or even literary world as a whole...is loaded with modern Greek characters. There are way more black characters than modern Greek, so that's kinda the opposite of what they should be going for.

I'm willing to bet when they finally intro Jessi the whiteness of Stoneybrook just won't be a thing anymore. Which I don't really mind honestly. It's fine during rereads because the books represent the time they were written, but in my opinion, it doesn't have a place in the graphic novels if they're trying to represent the current world more than the 80s.

I wish they'd hurry up and bring her in, too. They rushed Mal in so why are we still waiting on Jessi?

[luxken27]

So my Unpopular Opinion is that they are making all of the love interests black so that they can leave out Jessi altogether. I was already mad that they brought on Mal so early, because Mal and Jessi were a unit in the OG canon, and the more I read the graphic novels, the more I started to fear that Jessi was just not going to be a Thing in GN world. Seeing first Toby, and now Logan, are black in the GNs only reinforces this fear.

But I can't say that very loud because I'm sure this opinion makes me some sort of racist.