“…Blaxploitation is a very specific genre with clearly defined roles, and it mirrors superhero comics almost exactly in that it’s predominately a macho power fantasy… A hero struggles against long odds to overcome a wrong. As I started watching blaxploitation movies, it occurred to me that we could use all their symbols and cliches to [...]
“Shuri is a pretty complex young woman, and she’s doing her best to put on a good front. She’s gone from headstrong, short-tempered and arrogant little sister to T’Challa to being the ruler of Wakanda and the hero of the people. At least, those are the roles she has to play. When we meet her [...]
Buffy TVS #31 Georges Jeanty website CBR article on the major story changes happening in the Buffy series (that silliness with Obama was a fake-out, to no one’s surprise) —————————————————– Also this week: Black Panther #12 Spawn Origins V4 TP Barack the Barbarian #4 (of 4) Gold Digger #113. By Perry. —————————————————– Also notable: Weekly [...]
King Special Edition HC Time article from 2002 on Ho Che Anderson’s King HCA page @ Fantagraphics’ site —————————————————– Also this week: The Brave and the Bold: Milestone TP Nextwave: Agents of HATE Ultimate Collection TP War Machine: Dark Reign TP Escape from Wonderland #4 (of 6). Written by Gregory. —————————————————– Also notable: Human Target [...]
Krazy & Ignatz: Tiger Tea HC George Herriman website fansite for Ignatz Mouse —————————————————– Also this week: Azrael #6 Supergirl #51. Pencils by Igle. Deathlok #5 (of 7) Doomwar #2 (of 6) —————————————————- Also notable: Green Lantern Corps #46. Blackest Night tie-in. Siege #3 (of 4) —————————————————– News from the Emerald City Comic-Con via CBR: [...]
‘”DoomWar’ is something Marvel’s been building toward since the relaunch of ‘Black Panther.’ Reggie Hudlin did a bang-up job of laying the groundwork for it in the first two issues, and when I took over for issue #7, I shifted right back into it. Doom and the Panther have had a running fight for a [...]
Aya: The Secrets Come Out HC Amazon link to buy Aya of Yop City, the previous book in the series my review of the first Aya book @ GBCB The third book in Marguerite Abouet’s Aya series gets its English language release this week. Teen Titans #75 IMDB listing for Felicia D. Henderson interview with [...]
“Martha Washington has been all sorts of things, as we say somewhere in the book. She has been a soldier, she’s been an explorer, she’s been a fugitive from the law… What we try to do is follow the fortunes of a straightforward, very honorable girl from her beginnings in the ghettos of Chicago in [...]
“There are so many people involved in that, from Will to his partner James Lassiter to Akiva [Goldsman] to Michael Mann, myself and to get us all in the same room just like this where we can all talk and then agree on anything, you’ve never met a group of people that have a harder [...]
“…Nubia is a fascinating subject for study because she highlights the essential problem with an all-white, all-male power structure: Because the point of view is incredibly narrow, so is the product. Because the product is narrow, so is the audience. And the audience grows more incestuous by the second. If the goal is to broaden [...]
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