What the hell happened to great Super Bowl ads? This one is the only one I liked.
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New “X-Men” Trailer: “X-Men: Apocalypse”
“Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice” Trailers
And DC decides three is a magic number here! Take that, “Captain America: Civil War!”
Re: “Captain America: Civil War” (a.k.a. “Captain America 3”) Trailer: Team Cap! Team Black Panther!
Here’s my informed trailer review: YYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
DECEMBER 2nd UPDATE:
Marvel Miscellaneous (“Captain America: Civil War” Related)
Christopher James Priest Talks About His Time As The Writer Of Marvel’s “Black Panther”
My favorite comicbook author not named Grant Morrison 🙂 talks about his run–my all-time favorite in the 49 years of the character’s existence. Priest’s run that made me a “Black Panther” fan! I no longer collect comics, but I will make an exception for this Priest BP collection!
(And I want to point out that what Priest says in Part One is what I say in my chapter of “Ages of the Avengers.”)
Ta-Nehisi Coates has his work cut out for him! But I’m sure he knows that!
And Now, The Geek News:
Okay, THIS would be the geek news of the month
(with a special note of this grievous wrong “writed” 🙂 )
but, of course, it was superceded by this journalistic-superhero stream crossing!
Coates is one of the greatest nonfiction writers of my generation, but he is a little too, uh, um, mainstream and American for me, so I’m interested to see if fantasy will allow him to really open up, as it were. Marvel’s Black Panther will be the perfect vehicle for that.
Thank You, Jack Larson, The First Jimmy Olsen America Saw
First Batgirl, Yvonne Craig, and now this! Who remains alive from my telly days as a wee lad? 😦
(The above is not his best performance (it’s not even a regular episode, but a special film presentation sponored by the U.S. government for American schoolchildren. I am using it because it was in the public domain.)
OCTOBER 20th UPDATE: Indirectly speaking of Superman on TV, I liked this “Supergirl” article, because it explained why American broadcast network television has gone superhero-crazy.
Newark’s First Comic Con!
Newark had its first-ever (!) Comic-Con yesterday, and this “new” local-yokel got to go!
 
 
  
The Heath Ledger Joker scared the bejesus out of me, and I had no problem telling him so! LOL! 🙂  The Darth Vader guy was as tall as the original, and he had that breathing sound with him!
The guy at the end of this photo collection (after Kraven the Hunter, complete with Spider-Man mask!), is Ron Wilson, a famous Marvel comicbook artist remembered for Marvel Two-In-One and early issues of The Thing solo series in the late 1970s-early 1980s. I fanboyed all over him!
They had a brother comicbook creator there, Darrell Goza, whose lecture on Black superheroes and Black comics was so well-researched and contextualized, it made me ashamed that I had ever taught a class on comics history during my Morgan State days. It’s always good to run into people who have forgotten more than you will ever know on a subject! I gotta buy the poster (!) he had on the history of Black superhero comics and support his books! I told the organizer Goza’s lecture should be a PERMANENT part of this Comic-Con!
This event proves that Newark is on the move, ready or not!
Okay, 364 days until next year’s! LOL! 🙂 At least I’ll have “Free Comicbook Day” and “Captain America: Civil War” to tide me over in May while I wait. 🙂
Drums in the Global Village 