#sky shark

[retrogamelovers]

Any Sky Shark fans out there? 🛩️

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[samasmith23]

Ms. Marvel: How the Science Fair issue explores themes of class and race

As intentionally fun and silly the science fair issue from G. Willow Wilson’s run on Ms. Marvel is, I do love how this issue touches upon themes of racial and classist discrimination within the U.S. educational system.

Like all other areas of America's privatized capitalistic society, the system is intentionally rigged to make it as hard as possible for POCs like Kamala & Miles and even lower-income white people like Bruno to have access to good college educations. This in-turn can sadly sometimes promote unhealthy competition and in-fighting between these minority groups, as we see between Kamala Khan & Miles Morales’ respective teams at the science fair.

Wilson also conveys these issues of systemic class disparity through the character of Josh Richardson, who’s upper-class white male privilege makes him oblivious of his partner’s Kamala & Bruno, who need scholarships in order to more easily get into good colleges and deal with student loan debt afterwards, whereas Josh presumably has wealthier parents to fall back on. Heck, Josh even later admits that he only joined their team simply just to impress his ex-girlfriend Zoe, just to further highlight the ignorance and entitlement that white privilege generates.

This actually reminded me of a historical monograph that I read for one of my Graduate School classes last year, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001, which discusses the ways in which the politicians and businessmen of Dallas, TX actively sowed seeds of racial division and class conflict between the city's various minority groups throughout the city's history.

It's such a neat coincidence that both my academic work and comic reading touched on similar themes back-to-back! Also, while a bit on the nose, I love how Ganke's words here also foreshadow the then-upcoming conflict in Ms. Marvel’s Civil War II tie-ins, wherein Kamala is divided between the opposing factions of two of her superhero mentors, Captain Marvel & Iron Man respectively!

Overall, a really fun AND poignant done-&-one issue of Ms. Marvel! Plus it introduced us all to the epic gloriousness that is “Sky Shark!” Man do I love how unapologetically goofy superhero comics can be!

From Ms. Marvel (2015) #7 by G. Willow Wilson & Adrian Alphona.

[steambot-shenanigans]

Being in the Mechanisms and Steam Powered Giraffe fandom is like

Every octopus gets cat ears and every shark gets wings!

[oldschoolfrp]

Sky sharks again -- time to bug out! (Pierre-Olivier Vincent cover for Casus Belli 26, June 1985)

[evilhorse]

Marvel Two-in-One #20

[vgmthatmademe]

Sky Shark Stage 4 Tim Follin Software Creations 1989

[styllwaters]

necklace carpet sharks are SO silly and beautiful and it is of upmost importance that you all look at them

[the-wolf-and-moon]

LDN 1235, Shark

[spacewonder19]

A Shark in the Cosmic Sea: LDN 1235 ©

[retrogamelovers]

Always have fun revisiting Sky Shark on the NES! 🛩️

[retrocgads]

USA 1990

[samasmith23]

Lol! Oh wow! Even knowing the villainous direction Josh's character development will go in later arcs of Ms. Marvel, in this issue he's definitely guilty of manslaughter considering that nearby student is definitely Skyshark chow!

From Ms. Marvel (2015) #7 by G. Willow Wilson & Adrian Alphona.

[adigitalsky]

I was part of the shark themed @swimonzine this year, and this was my contribution! I love the way thresher sharks leap out of the water, and wanted to make it feel like they’re flying

[red-pencil]

Ever put your head in a shark's mouth?

Possibly, my first Nimona task I did at BlueSky studios was the shark expression sheet.