(AfroGamers.com) Every few years the same ritual plays out, and if you came up with a stack of back issues under your bed and Toonami bumpers burned into your memory, you can see it coming a mile off. Some exec in an office decides the most recognizable hero on the ...
(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) 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) Marvel Studios closed out its Hall H presentation at San Diego Comic-Con by handing the vibranium suit to David Jonsson, and the roar that filled that hall carried two things at once: pure joy, and a hush underneath it that nobody really wanted to name. Here’s the part folks ...
(AfroGamers.com) Peter Parker passed sixty in publishing years a while back, and the man is somehow still late on rent. I’ve thought about that a lot. Marvel spent decades stacking its shelf with a thunder god here, a billionaire genius there, an actual king running the most advanced nation on ...
(AfroGamers.com) Freakazoid is one those 90s cartoons that often gets brought up last or at random when folks are remembering old toons. Usually you’ll get Animaniacs, Rugrats, Daria, Tiny Toons, Powerpuff Girls, Batman: The Animated Series, and Pinky and The Brain to name a few. Hell, you’ll hear Taz-Mania and Gargoyles ...
(AfroGamers.com) SPOILER ALERT! Tongari Boushi no Atelier, or Witch Hat Atelier, is a Japanese animated series (an anime) that started airing in April 2026. Produced by BUG FILMS, it took approximately 3 and a half years for the adaptation process of the manga, ...
(AfroGamers.com) The original Ultimate Spider-Man series was headed up by the incredible team of writer Michael Bendis and artist Mark Bagley. Released in 2000, it was basically a modern retelling of one of Marvel’s Big 3 superheroes. Knowing this, going back and reading the series would beg the question “Why?” At ...
(AfroGamers.com) In part one, we mainly focused on ineffective, incompetent authority in anime and manga. We didn’t even get into comics when it comes to bumbling government or being so bad at your job a disaster occurs. It’s worth noting that in American comics, there is a reason for why ...
(AfroGamers.com) In decades of watching anime and reading comics/manga, there are certain tropes that pop up often that you notice. They might become tropes you really enjoy, some that annoy you but they’re a staple of what you enjoy—but they’re usually there. For instance, one trope I hate is the naming ...