(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) When Marvel’s Spider-Man dropped in 2018, it changed storytelling in comic book games. From a gameplay standpoint, it was an open-world game with acrobatics—it’s the same formula from the Spider-Man 2 game as well as the Prototype and inFamous series. However, Insomniac Games really put their back into the ...

(AfroGamers.com) When I began dating my fiancée, we got into an argument over Hancock. Yes, the 2008 superhero film starring Will Smith and Charlize Theron. Oh, how she claimed I hated Hancock. Meanwhile, I’m wondering if we are actually having this argument. Like was that real argument? Over Hancock? Of ...

(AfroGamers.com) There are a few comics/manga/manhua/manhwa/webcomics out there that use gaming as a mechanic. The most common mechanic used is from RPGs and MMORPGs where the main character can read their own stats and those of others. One comic for gamers is Solo Leveling by Chu-gong with Jang Sung-rak handling ...

(AfroGamers.com) My favorite series in 2000 A.D is Judge Dredd. Stories tend to run for a few pages in the weekly anthology so the stories tend to be paced extremely well from one part to the next. The titular character was the second thing that caught my attention. Judge Dredd ...

(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) Shaolin Cowboy is a comic book series currently published by Darkhorse but has its roots going back to the Wachowskis’ imprint back in 2004. This series is extremely weird. If I could come up with something to tie this to, I’d say that there is ton of 1960s underground comix ...

(AfroGamers.com) Marvel’s The X-Men have been around for a long time—almost 56 years to be exact. In that time, the franchise has had several series, retcons, and teams. Each of these were interesting in their own way and is definitely the best soap opera in comics. Xavier’s relationships with the empress ...

(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) Dynamite Entertainment is a publisher that found a specific niche in taking properties from way back when and turning them into comics. If it was on television any time between the 1960s and 1980s or had a radio serial, Dynamite has done a series on it. IDW Publishing does the ...