(AfroGamers.com) In the late -1940s, during the Golden Age of Comics, there weren’t many Black characters of note. Those who were there were primarily sidekicks to more established comic book characters or featured in funnies, comedy characters. Roughly eight years ago, we covered the sole issue of the anthology All-Negro ...
(AfroGamers.com) “You have failed this city” was a commonly uttered sentence by Stephen Amell’s character Oliver Queen/The Green Arrow in The CW’s former hit series Arrow. However, that’s not a phrase that can only be applied to the Arrowverse. Here are three times when not only the city but the ...
(AfroGamers.com) You know what? We haven’t visited Mega-City One in a while, so let’s get into the third Judge Dredd epic “The Judge Child Quest.” This story ran in 2000 A.D #156-#181 between March and October 1980. A City in Danger Psi-Division is a wing of the Judges who are ...
(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) A service like Marvel Unlimited is great because you have access to the publisher’s library of comics. While the recent stuff is from 2018-2019, my main thing is the older stuff. I like to see the root of characters and franchises—even if things tend to end up retconned several ...
(AfroGamers.com) When Image Comics launched in 1992, it had probably the most dangerous line-up of writers, pencilers, and inkers of any publisher’s roster at the time. Erik Larsen, Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, Marc Silvestri, Whilce Portacio, Jim Valentino, and Todd McFarlane. Besides their creativity, what made this group of founders ...
(AfroGamers.com) So, as you probably know Disney is making a new live action The Little Mermaid and have cast Halle Bailey as Ariel. Bailey is a Black actress who hasn’t been in many films in a significant role but has a regular role on Freeform’s Grown-ish, a spinoff of Black-ish. ...
(AfroGamers.com) In keeping with the theme of Black independent comic book creators, here’s DayBlack. Created by Atlanta-area tattoo artist and painter, Keef Cross, DayBlack details the modern life of Merce, a former slave and now vampire living in DayBlack, Georgia. Merce: Going Through the Motions Merce currently works as a tattoo ...
(AfroGamers.com) In talking to the proprietor of AfroGamers, I was asked “How do you find these old school Black comics?” Mind you, those weren’t his exact words, but the question was the same. While I answered his question, the short, more immediate answer is Peep Game Comix. Tons of modern and ...
(AfroGamers.com) Black comics have always been around for years. Talented writers, illustrators, and fictional superheroes have dominated the black comic book space for a long time. In this post, we have listed 10 of the best black comics you must read in 2018. Abbott The black comic book Abbott will be ...