He co-created #SpiderMan2099 and #YoungJustice. He also wrote some of the best #IncredibleHulk stories ever.
I followed his struggle for wellness on #GoFundMe for at least a year.
He was 68.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_David
Category Archives: books
Book Mini-Review: Macbeth Has No Clothes But Plenty Of Loyalists
Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover Up, And His Disasterous Choice To Run Again.
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson.
New York: Penguin Press, 314 p., $32.
The election-insider story never gets old because America’s elite political class, like everyone else, loves a good reality show, particularly if it’s starring them and their family members and loved ones in longform narrative text. In this downer Election 2024 tale, which would have made a better magazine article and will one day make a better major block in a chapter on a future Vol. 2, 800-page Biden autobiography, Tapper and Thompson use reporting and transcripts to document a decline everyone saw and understood in real time, including the whys–why he refused to recognize it at first, why he is now saying he could have won, etc. Normally, a book like this would be dominated by fast-paced acts designed to win an election; here the repeated scenes of lying, denial, protection and delusion–“a theology that bordered on zealotry” is how the authors put it–just add up to a sad tale of a 20th-century Delaware power couple, the Fates’ tough-as-nails playthings, who survived very dark times to get the crowns and scepters too late. Leading the world when you have to be personally led around is an amazing spectacle but power demands complete, mobster-like loyalty. So Special Counsel Robert Hur, the book’s coal-mine canary and his supervisor U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland get eventually vindicated but not publicly apologized to for, respectively, telling the truth and exhibiting ethics over partisanship because, well, politics ain’t beanbag. The idea that Biden’s roundtable would “Weekend-at-Bernie’s” a president is disturbing but most of the Monday-morning, anonymous quarterbacking by the politicos reads shallow because it is that; they signed on to the (lucrative) Washington political establishment with their blood a long time ago. With the Republican and Democratic parties about to experience a youth spurt in 2028, perhaps this almost-necessary book is just part of the last chapter of the Boomer and pre-Boomer political dynasties. For political diehards only.
#MalcolmX100 #MalcolmX: #TheDiaryofMalcolmX
My dream is that one day we’ll have a conference on the diary.
https://www.theroot.com/new-malcolm-x-diary-reveals-a-revolutionary-optimist-1790876235
#RooseveltFranklin, #TheMuppets And The Dark Side of #SesameStreet ft. Dr. #ToddStevenBurroughs
Book Mini-Review: A Clock Approaching Midnight Encourages An African Writer’s Memory Bombing
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas.
Ngugi wa Thiong’o.
New York and London: The New Press. 209 p., $25.99.
Books are weird containers now because, formerly/formally, they were a way to combine things that would probably never be found on their own because they existed only in memory or microfilm/fiche; with the new century a quarter old, books are still necessary so people can listen to one container, at their own speed, instead of setting up a 10-hour #YouTube playlist. This mini-reader, kind of a ” #NgugiwaThiongo 101″ that would be perfect for an undergraduate class, is highly readable and approachable, with only a few notes at the end. It’s a compilation of some of the artistic activist’s presentations, essays, speeches, lectures and panel presentations, organized thematically. The shocking fact that there’s no introduction, no attempt to summarize such an amazing life of ideas and risk for them, makes sense when the reader realizes that wa Thiong’o, a literary legend still alive and thriving, is 87 and has been writing novels and his multi-volume memoir series from childhood up to his famous 1977 arrest, convicted of essentially strong playwrighting in his native Kenya. The first half of the essay collection summarizes his beliefs about how European colonial languages are incredibly effective in setting up an intellectual and psycho-social hierarchy so dominant that some African nations argue, or worse, don’t argue, about English being their official language. The second is his scattered memories of many of his continental artistic and activist contemporaries, written in essays so short and plain that it seemed he wanted to make sure to get them down as fast as possible. But when you are wa Thiong’o, even phoning it in is to walk boldly as an African through the 20th- and 21st-centuries, constantly measuring the meanings and contradictions of neo-colonialism and other difficult, incomplete freedoms.
#DCStudios #DC #Superman #SupermanTrailer | #SupermanOfficialTrailer
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#MCU #MarvelTelevision’s #Ironheart | Official Trailer #IronheartTrailer| #Disney+ #DisneyPlus
#MCU #MarvelTelevision’s #MarvelsIronheart | Legacy of #RiriWilliams | Disney+ #DisneyPlus
Book Mini-Review: #BlackBoomers Teach #Movement101
A Protest History of the United States.
Gloria Browne-Marshall.
Boston: Beacon Press, 360 pp., $31.95.
New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement.
Juan Williams.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 288 pp., $28.99.
These books have never been more timely than today since they will probably be blocked from being adopted in school libraries and taught at universities across several states. Marshall, a modern-day, award-winning hyphenate in a way the late #MayaAngelou would be impressed with, and Williams, often known as a liberal (contrarian), both give context to the evening news’ #PresidentTrump executive orders. Both explain how the war is never-ending and that protest is constant and normal when you are up against oppression, whether historically naked or cloaked in the latest fashions. Williams attempts to B.C. and A.D. two different and consecutive #CivilRightsMovements, with #BarackObama on the cross. The first is the traditional, analog, PBS one (and Williams is an expert, having written the original #EyesonthePrize companion book) and the second is the one we have now–digital, fast and furious, with #BlackLivesMatter demanding the right to grow and make mistakes in public. (As we know and as Williams writes, the organized white-nationalist, right-wing response is equally digital but more deadly.) Marshall dissects protest to illustrate that it is, among other things, “primal” and an “investment,” the carbon dioxide exhaled within the racist/sexist/capitalist carbon-monoxide-filled American experiment; it is a visceral and always-correct response to the Dollar Eagle’s generations of Nos and Thou Shalt Nots. If #LeroneBennett and #HowardZinn adopted a child and raised her, it would be Marshall. And if Newark Mayor #RasBaraka #MayorRasBaraka #NewarkMayorRasBaraka is right in that perhaps the only legitimate thing about America is the struggles within it for democracy, then these Boomerooks 🙂 should only be read outside on campuses, in between demands for #Palestinian grad students–the new, respectable #politicalprisoners!–to return to a 2025 America the authors know all too well from the historic shadows and breaking-news currents they present and represent.
My Favorite #Superman Stories
A #YouTube channel asked. My response was so long and detailed that I decided to list in there and keep it for myself. 🙂
(OCTOBER 20th UPDATE:)
2) #Superman vs. #MuhammadAli #SupermanvsMuhammadAli (second only by a whisker :))
3) #WhateverHappenedToTheManofTomorrow
5) #KingdomCome
6) #SupermanvAtomMan #SupermanvsAtomMan (original radio version, not movie serial)
7) Apokolips….Now”/”Legacy” from #SupermanTAS
8) #Hereafter (both parts) from #JusticeLeagueTAS
9) #Alive / #Destroyer from #JusticeLeagueUnlimitedTAS
10) #SupermanForAllSeasons
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10) “Superman” (first of the 1940s animated film shorts)
11) “Superman’s Wife” from the 1950s TV series #AdventuresofSuperman
12) “We Have A Lot To Talk About,” #LoisandClarkTheNewAdventuresofSuperman3x1
13) “The Wedding of Superman,” from the 1950s TV series #AdventuresofSuperman
14) “Terror from the Phantom Zone,” from #Superfriends Season 3 (first segment of hour which contained #ChallengeoftheSuperfriends)
15) “Universe of Evil,” from #Superfriends Season 4
16) #Superman No. 1 from 1939
17) #1940sSundaynewspapercomicstrips
HONORARY STORY: #SupermanforallSeasons
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SEPTEMBER 22nd UPDATE:
Drums in the Global Village 