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5.  “Whaaaat??? Racism Exists?”

(Page 6)

And in a flash, Lois is back in Little Africa, ready to try again.

First, the friendly white cab driver she met earlier refuses to pick her up now that she’s black. From this, Lois learns that racism exists. She learns this lesson again when she takes the subway, and people…look at her a little weirdly?

This is all by her narration, by the way. In the actual art, nearly everybody seems to be not really paying attention to her at all, save one guy. Lois responds to these events with an extremely odd choice of words. “Is that what happens every time these human beings ride in a subway?” she asks. Referring to the entire African-American population as these human beings seems suuuuuper weird to me. There’s just something off about the phrasing.

But then, there’s something off about most of this comic book.