(AfroGamers.com) The spinner rack by the register had a squeak to it, and that squeak is what my memory reaches for first. Newsprint gone soft, a little sour at the edges. Ink that smeared gray on your thumb if you gripped it wrong. I’d slide a quarter across the counter ...
(AfroGamers.com) Most shonen come down to whatever logic is running the fights. That part matters more than a fat animation budget or a slick character design, since it quietly decides who has any business winning. Botch it and your big climactic showdown becomes two dudes screaming, each one praying he ...
(AfroGamers.com) Every so often a comic company stumbles into greatness and then acts like it never happened. That is the whole sad ballad of Adam Bernard Brashear, better known to a small and loyal circle as Blue Marvel. Picture a brother with the muscle of Thor, the mind of Reed ...
(AfroGamers.com) Some anime arrives when the culture wants something loud and bright, then quietly declines to hand it over. Wolf’s Rain was that kind of trickster. It came out in the early 2000s while the boom was roaring, back when a cable box and a late bedtime felt like a ...
(AfroGamers.com) The global manga business has grown into one of the dominant forces in worldwide entertainment. So somebody explain this to me. The whole world is eating this stuff up. Then why do fresh stories keep catching the axe before anybody even learns their names? Been chewing on that one ...
(AfroGamers.com) Marvel’s decision to pull the plug on Wonder Man only months after promising fans a second chapter says something ugly about how these platforms treat their boldest swings. Let me back up for the folks who missed it. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II played Simon Williams, a struggling Black actor sitting ...
(AfroGamers.com) The industry has quietly figured out that some of its safest money does not come from whatever premieres next season. It comes from what a whole crowd of grown adults already loved back when they were broke and twelve. So who makes up a valuable part of the audience ...