Keeping it unreal : black queer fantasy and superhero comics Introduction: Fantastic Bullets I Am Nubia: Superhero Comics and the Paradigm of the Fantasy Act Can the Black Superhero Be Erotic Fantasy Acts: The Art of Desire Conclusion: On Becoming Fantastical. Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics explores how fantasy especially superhero comics which are usually derided as naïve and childish is a catalyst for engaging the black radical imagination. Such engagements prompt fantasy acts against antiblackness a transgressive way of reading beyond the comic book page to envision and to experience alternate and potentially more just realities. Fantasies about superhero characters are not just or even primarily forms of escape the author argues but are active reshapings of readers and their worlds. This book offers a rich meditation on the relationship between fantasy and reality and between the imagination and being as it weaves Scotts personal recollections of his encounters with superhero comics with interpretive readings of figures like the Black Panther Luke Cage Nubia and Blade and theorists such as Frantz Fanon Eve Sedgwick Leo Bersani Saidiya Hartman and Gore Vidal