dwayne mcduffie is dead

whaat the fuck...

whaaat the fuck...

the old saying is true, you don't know what you have until it's gone... i'm speechless, and utterly baffled, why... why is he dead now when his movie is coming out. why him of all people.

honestly, i never was a huge fan of him, but never a detractor, he was to me a true comicbook geek in the guise of an affirmative action hire in the comics industry. that's how i felt about him. sure he was held up because of his race as this beacon of hope for black youth, but beyond that, he was actually talented, his scripts were comparable to good films, his character static shock, is one of the coolest superheros i've had the pleasure of witnessing, and once again although static was created to balance out the white/black ratio, he was an interesting character, flawed, cocky, but determined to help people with his gifts. i idolized him.

dwayne broke the race barrier by being himself in an industry that's not easy no doubt to remain passionate in. i think he got so much tv work because he was good, they'd be foolish not to have him on board. and now he's dead.... rip, so unfair really, and the criminal thing is that no one will really understand what he meant to the world of superheros because he's never outstandingly famous, just somewhere lurking in the background, so sad...