(AfroGamers.com) For many people, Black Panther is probably just another superhero, but for the Black community and comic lovers, he is a symbol of hope, justice, and pride. We don’t see black characters receiving big screen treatment often, but when Marvel announced the Black Panther movie, which was released in 2018, ...
(AfroGamers.com) One thing I’ve run into on occasion when hearing other Blerds and comic book fans in general discuss Marvel Comics is how much they disliked the first Civil War. Mind you, this isn’t a universal opinion. Some folks hated it, some loved it, some liked parts of it. It could ...
(AfroGamers.com) In January 2019, Marvel will relaunch the Guardians of the Galaxy comic. In a teaser release, Marvel Entertainment confirmed that fans should expect a new lineup of the team. This new group of superheroes is going to be different from what we have seen in the past. Here we have ...
(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) Black Lightning Season 2 premiere will be the first glimpse at what to expect from the series next. The good thing is, we are just a couple of days away from the actual release of the new Black Lightning season. The show will be aired on The CW network from ...
(AfroGamers.com) Kurt Busiek’s Astro City–with artwork by Brent Anderson and Alex Ross–is my overall favorite superhero series. It’s a superhero comic done with a linear timeline but with this large breathing world. Trust me, I’ll get into both of those since they go hand-in-hand. Let’s dive into this intro because we’ll ...
(AfroGamers.com) Spider-Man is one of if not the most popular Marvel character of all time. Mind you, I said of all time and not like 2018. Now, you could say Iron Man but even though he had devoted fans, things didn’t really start to pop for Tony until the movies came ...
(AfroGamers.com) Fox Kids in the early 1990s was a fun time for cartoons–as I’ve mentioned before. One of the gems in its program block was X-Men: The Animated Series. Fox just called it X-Men but like the Batman show it had at the same time, distinctions have to be made. Of ...
(AfroGamers.com) Astro City had a number storylines prior to it taking the more mainstream issue-based approach. Prior to this, the series’ issues were written more with being a part of a larger graphic novel than to be read from month to month. Of the storylines featured in the first run of ...
(AfroGamers.com) Vertigo Comics’ American Vampire puts the writing team of writer Scott Snyder and artist Rafael Albuquerque together for one hell of a vampire tale. The first issue dropped in 2010 and ran into 2012. This story spans the ages starting around the Old West, bleeding into Golden Era Hollywood, and ...