BLACK COTTON V2 — This Story is About Color… Or the Lack of Color.

Art by Marco Perugini with colors by Marcelo Henrique Santana

BLACK COTTON: WHITE ON WHITE CRIME & THE PLIGHT OF GENTRIFICATION is Volume 2 of the alternate reality series where the social order of white and black is reversed. In Volume One, we met the Cottons at a critical juncture of time within their family history; their oldest son, Zion Cotton, a police officer, shot and almost killed a minority white woman, Elizabeth Nightingale. In addition to the social tension that it caused — a black man shooting a minority, a white woman at that — the Cottons also faced sword wielding twin extremists from a longstanding rival family, the Keshinomis. With all that being said, it is important to understand that BLACK COTTON VOLUME ONE was not about color — but social order and how the idea of race plays into that. This is not the case in our next volume of BLACK COTTON…

VOLUME TWO — Yeah, this story is about color… Or the lack of color, which is why we have decided to actually make the story in color. In our world, the idea and visual of “Black on Black Crime” has been visceral, even culminating with the coined term Super Predator, and there was no way that we could tell this Volume Two story without making sure readers experienced both — the ideology and the visual depiction of what “White on White Crime” looks like in this reality and how gentrification connects to it.