Black Spaces with White Faces in Static Shock

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…a battling that is not so much physical action as much as an extended commercial for what is offered for sale at the mall: videogames, superhero commodities. It is significantly from this position of the consumer that Static Shock is able to defeat his videogame foes. His knowledge of videogames saves the day rather than his superpowers. Instead of showing how such knowledge disciplines further consumption, the cartoon imagines that consumption yields victories over commodification.