In case you missed the requisite drama and outrage: comic book fans freaked when “Fruitvale Station” actor Michael B. Jordan landed the part of the Human Torch because the original character Johnny Storm is Caucasian and Jordan is African American. In the comics he is also the brother of Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman, and so how does that work? It doesn’t really matter, fans were just maddened that 20th Century Fox and director Josh Trank changed the race of the original character.
Actor Michael B. Jordan has stayed mostly silent about the backlash until now in an Entertainment Weekly where he’s basically said to the haters, come at me, bro.
"You’re not supposed to go on the Internet when you’re cast as a superhero,” he said in his open later. “But after taking on Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four—a character originally written with blond hair and blue eyes—I wanted to check the pulse out there. I didn’t want to be ignorant about what people were saying. Turns out this is...
