ICYMI: HBO’s “It’s Time” Panel on Diversity Is the Fun I Come to Cons For

#Watchmen #HBOPartner New York Comic-Con season is upon us, and with the gift of NYCC taking over Manhattan comes thousands flocking to the Javits center in cosplay. Some folks drive up north to see the foliage change for autumn, I prefer watching cosplayers flood the city to let me know fall has come. Cosplay is one of the many things New York Comic Con has to offer, but the main thing it brings? Panels. There are all types of panels every year in Comic-Con, and I’m here to talk about one I was recently part of HBO’s It’s Time: A Conversation on Representation in the Comic Genre and What’s Next for The Culture. HBO’s “It’s Time” panel took place in the Watchmen lounge (and I just wanna state how great that lounge was; the lighting was immaculate and the playlist went mad hard in the sensual). Moderated by DJ BenHaMeen (of For All Nerds), the fellow panelists were Cheyenne Ewulu (of Pretty, Brown, And Nerdy), Jourdan Barnett (of Blerd Vision Podcast), and myself (y’all know who the hell I rep). We got together to talk across the board about representation not only in comics, movies, and television, but also behind the scenes as well. Naturally, there are a lot of questions that arise when diversity comes into the conversation: Is there enough? Is it a trend/ploy now? How about the process of getting our stories right? Who should be the ones to tell these stories of people of color? When touching these topics I love to have a panel of people from different portions of the nerd…