The Immortal Nadia Greene: Black Girl Too Fly To Die

So I’m on Tumblr right, reblogging otters and disagreeing with folks’ fan casting for movies (y’all know who I am) and I came to a page from Jamal Campbell’s webcomic that stopped me dead in my tracks. It stopped me not just because of the artwork, but due to the scene it was portraying: a young brown girl having to deal with her own mortality and the physical manifestation of death. In this instance, death is Hel, ruler of the Nordic realm of the dead.

The page really hits home, especially knowing that when you go on any form of media you’re going to see a new Black body that became a victim hashtag. I’m looking at this page watching death console this girl about to cross over into the afterlife. It’s a hard scene to watch unfold as on one hand, it looks to just be the young girl’s time, while in the real world it seems to always be our time. You can’t help but wonder how used to Black boys, girls, men, and women that death has become at this point. Even if unintentional, art is constantly imitating life. As I continued scrolling down thinking about the page and how serene yet sad it was, I was caught off guard by the next page:

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDIN ME?! Did she just… Did this 5-year-old girl just duff death?! Yes! Yes! On everything I love YAAASSSSSSS! Nadia Greene is the girl’s name, and when you got enough confidence to come at death’s crown (literally) with the Louisville slugger like it’s nothing?! You get my support, no questions asked. Campbell has Nadia Greene …