‘Rage Daily News’ Keeps It 100 About White Privilege

Writer: Messiah Rhodes / Artist: Myra Musgrove /Independent Release It’s been a really dope few years for indie comics. They always push the envelope for meaty content and further conversations the big two have become too mainstream to tackle head-on. In the age of a legitimized Trump presidency, a resurgence in white nationalism and general anti-melanin fuckery we are gifted an arts renaissance. Topics and concerns so prevalent on the national and international levels – that there must be a vehicle to address them. Enter: Rage Daily News (RDN). A four-panel strip that looks immediately like the throwback funnies page you would separate from the news paper, Rage Daily News is anything but a departure from the news. The writer/illustrator duo Messiah Rhodes and Myra Musgrove have mentioned RDN being fueled by the cognitive dissonance facing the country at present; and inspired by Black identity musings as far-ranging as the analysis of Frantz Fanon’s “Black Skin, White Mask” to its personification in Eddie Murphy’s ‘White For A Day’ SNL skit. Rage Daily News is keeping it one-hundred about addressing what it means to be Black in the face of ‘Make America Great Again’.

The synopsis is pretty straight forward, ‘After a conspiracy disgraces Black cop Trent Williams, he masquerades as vigilante white person. Wearing a latex Superman mask, he roams the city streets at night, intervening and stopping crimes both big and small. With nothing but rubber bullets and his brash wit regar…