Here’s a preview of Zap! 584! New characters! Deserts! Landing gear!
Saturday Zap! Preview!
Here’s Holly and Inman reacting to the Generals’ news.
Sometimes people ask me what race Holly and Inman are, and it’s kind of weird because they’re human, but they aren’t Earthlings, so their ethnicity doesn’t really correlate to our current notions. But from my perspective and artistic approach, Holly is mixed-race (her father was persian and her mother was black) and Inman is Indian.
Sometimes I wish I would have made Scherzer black, just because I feel that human races are kind of underrepresented in Zap! (Efrem isn’t expressly white, but among the main group that is it), but I kind of like that they have a little harmonious mixing pot. I like to think that in the future, people won’t really care so much about what color you happen to be.
Though, their is still racism in the Zap! universe, but we’ve really only shown it related to planets. Planetism? Both Justin and Gunner called William a “dog,” which is a slur for someone from Pluto. So, I don’t know, there’s that. Humans probably won’t ever get away from tribalism.
