Tim Caron notes that Zane “is not a superhero per se, he does have an alter ego: as ‘Incognegro,’ he uses his fair skin to investigate and report on lynching in the U.S. This panel, along with the entire scene, plays upon superhero tropes and iconography, and the ways that the scene deploys those tropes is important within the context of the book. Today, I want to continue this discussion by looking at the rest of this seen, notably the next panel where the American flag waves in front of Zane’s reflection as he stares at himself in the mirror. Specifically, I focused on Zane looking in the mirror and having the haunting specters of the past superimposed over his reflection in the mirror.
Last post, I started writing about Zane Pinchback’s transformation into Incognegro in Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece’s graphic novel.
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