(AfroGamers.com) Ah yes, comic book revamps. DC and Marvel are known for revamping their comic book lines when things are starting to get a little stale. It also happens when sales across the board suffer. This often takes the form of starting from the beginning and just going forward with ...
(AfroGamers.com) We’ve got a showdown of two influential manga series! Osamu Tezuka’s iconic shonen series Astro Boy will take on the Golden Duo of Goseki Kojima and Kazuo Koike’s samurai series Lone Wolf and Cub! Both series are ones that heavily influenced my love of manga but which one wins? ...
(AfroGamers.com) Even though it’s been around since the 1980s, there are still mysteries with the Super Mario franchise. His canonical origin has recently raised a question from this fan: is the Super Mario Bros series a pioneer in isekai. What Is Isekai? In manga, anime, and Japanese games, isekai is ...
(AfroGamers.com) So, Netflix has all of the Power Rangers seasons. Or rather, it has most of them. I’ve been going through the first season—yes, OG Power Rangers—and I had some observations about…everything. Here are just five of them. Billy and Kimberly Are The Power Rangers With the Most Range There ...
(Afrogamers.com) Several anime series have gotten remakes or CGI adaptations. Sailor Moon had a revival in Sailor Moon Crystal which was a shocker. Voltron got an extremely popular remake on Netflix and Hunter x Hunter had a whole series revival after the first anime adaptation ended. Fullmetal Alchemist even got ...
(AfroGamers.com) Spawn came about after Canadian artist and writer Todd McFarlane and several other talents left Marvel Comics to form their own publisher in 1992. He created the character in high school and once Image Comics was formed, he needed to run his own series as the other founders were ...
(AfroGamers.com) Now and days, comic book publishers tend to release variant covers for important issues. You know, first issues of a new line, reboots, or issues released during an imprint-wide event. Variant covers really became a regular thing when the comic book issue stabilized then rebounded during the late 2000s. ...
(AfroGamers.com) A few years back, I’d run into some discussion on social media about the Marvel character Nighthawk. He wasn’t a character I’d heard of but he’d been in publication some years ago. Well, it was 2016 and we were getting a new Nighthawk comic. The Decision to Run Nighthawk ...
(AfroGamers.com) I have played over 100+ games during my lifetime with plenty of good ones like Sonic & Knuckles, Tecmo Super Bowl (NES Version), & Killer Instinct (SNES Version) and even plenty of very bad ones like Chaos In The Windy City, NBA Hangtime, and DBGT Final Bout. I have ...
(AfroGamers.com) It’s my favorite time of the year—Halloween. So, in honor of Halloween let’s look at the top five Black heroes of horror films and TV shows! What heroes do you believe are missing? Kim Mathis (Tracie Thoms, Death Proof, 2007) Death Proof was part of a grindhouse-style double feature ...