June 14, 2011 

Joan’s Kinda Racist.

I still love Jay “Golden Age Flash” Garrick’s girlfriend Joan for being slightly less of a stereotype than most women of the time, but here she shows an insane leap of logic.

You know Joan, he could have been making a house call…

(and I still love that Joan packs heat. No Damsel she… even if she did bring a gun to a hatchet fight)


  • madwoman

    Yeah, he hardly looks like he’s struggling.  He’s not being “brought out”, he’s walking next to the other guy under his own power.  Joan’s having a “South Park” reaction.  Next she’ll be burning down her local WalMart.

  • http://flickr.com/photos/sedary_raymaker/ Naked Bunny with a Whip

    The best kidnappers don’t care if you can easily identify them or follow them home!

  • Naryldor

    Because China Town is an eeeevil place, as shown in well documented films like Big Trouble in Little China.

  • http://flickr.com/photos/sedary_raymaker/ Naked Bunny with a Whip

    They are a society and a law unto themselves. And some of them have mystical superpowers.

    (To be fair, the latter is likely true in the DCU.)

  • Anonymous

    What exactly is a “tong?”

    I hate to say it, but even though it is racist, it’s still a lot less racist than a lot of the other Asian representations I’ve seen in comics from around these decades.  Not a shining era from our past…

  • http://flickr.com/photos/sedary_raymaker/ Naked Bunny with a Whip
  • http://sezaarsez.wordpress.com/ sezaar

    To be fair, she doesn’t think anything about the man coming to see the doctor, she only gets suspicious when she sees the men with hatchets.

  • Anonymous

    Joan is so surprised to see a wealthy Chinese person…