Top 4 Black comic heroes

With Comic-Con closing this week, Superstupidfresh.com has decided to bring you the Top Ten Black Superheroes in comic books. In the age of Obama, where getting more diverse is status quo, comic books have become more saavy than ever. X-men, the trailblazing comic book, has added several African and African-American characters over the last decade. For example, These aren’t just black people with superpowers. These are educated luminaries with powerful gifts to change the world or destroy it. They aren’t just juiced-up mega humans. they are in a sense, demi-gods. Intelligent, well-written, off-the-cuff and ultra-powerful. So Luke Cage doesn’t count. Here’s our list.

With the map of Africa on her face, silver hair and della robbia blue eyes, Ororo is one of the most powerful and (as her name suggests) beautiful mutants in the X-men pantheon. The vain reigning queen consort of Wakanda (a fictional African nation), after marrying King T’Challa, is known as Black Panther. Storm is a mutant with the psionic ability to control weather, an expert in espionage, and one of the most skilled fighters, she was one of the first black super heroines to grace comic book pages.

Praised for its spectacular and sophisticated wit in faintly ultramodern technologically-advanced, xenophobic Africana milieu, the tale of a Wakanda reigning emperor and his adventures is one of the best written in the Marvel universe. Black Panther, the first black contemporary superhero is one of epic proportions.

People get very offended when you put Blade on a list of greatest superheroes because he’s essentially a vampire killer. With a world overran by Edward Cullen-types, isn’t it fair to say that he should be honored as one of the greatest superheroes ever? The day walking dhampir martial artist is an accomplished jazz trumpeter, an expert swordsman and marksman and has a rapid healing factor that makes it easy to hunt his prey at all times.

The “black one” in the Avengers. He is one of the coolest as well. He has the ability to control birds, and see through their eyes. In one issue, he noted. “I have over six billion pairs of eyes in the United States alone,”. Which makes him an awesome spy. He’s also an expert gymnast and flies with off-the-chain wing gliders.