Wakanda Barbershop – Episode One: Bishop Vents on Heroes Reborn & Appropriation

Welcome to the Wakanda Barbershop! Here we get to see your favorite Black Marvel characters, as well as other characters of color, be self aware and talk about what’s going on in our timeline of reality and their fictional 616 Marvel universe. What better place to hang and vent than the best barbershop on Earth, located in Wakanda? It’s so popular that characters from other comics publishers are allowed to stop in. Even characters that have been in limbo for years can be spotted in the Wakanda Barbershop, “Where That Atmosphere Be So Black.” Bishop is waiting for a chair, sitting next to Luke Cage, who is waiting to get his beard trimmed. Bishop has been riffing on the return of NBC’s Heroes reboot. Bishop is watching the Heroes: Reborn trailer, then suddenly blurts out– Bishop: ARE YOU FUCKING ME?! Luke Cage: What Stark do now? Bishop: Nah, it’s nothing Tony Stark related. Luke Cage: Steve Rogers? Bishop: No. It’s, not– Luke Cage: You’re sure it ain’t Tony? Bishop: Nah man, you remember that show Heroes? Luke Cage: That was NBC’s X-Men Rip off? Yeah? Bishop: Low key, that shit was my guilty pleasure. So I’m watching this trailer for the reboot Heroes: Reborn. I’m fucking with it, right? I got powers, they got powers, it’s speaking to me, right? Then a minute and 48 seconds into the trailer this White kid turns to the camera talkin’ ’bout, “In other countries they shoot people like me in the street.” Luke Cage: …ummmmm?

Bishop: EXACTLY, MY DUDE! I CAN NOOOOT! I was goin…