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but, of course, it was superceded by this journalistic-superhero stream crossing!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.
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 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. 🙂
I remember as a little kid in the 1970s, watching “Batman” EVERY WEEKDAY, I really, really liked her, but didn’t yet understand why! LOL! (Her abilities obviously included the skill to breathe and move in that costume. 🙂 ) After I saw Batgirl, I then decided that any episode with her in it was one of the good ones.
CNN reminds me that she was the first female superhero on television. I never thought of that, then or now!
It also took me years later to realize that Batgirl coincided with Eartha Kitt’s Catwoman! (Double score! LOL! 🙂 ) And Catwoman hated Batgirl!
As you get older, acceptance becomes easier. So, after accepting the tragedy of “Fantastic Four,” this No. 1 FF fan (owned hundreds of comics, cartoons, toys, etc.) has accepted that there will never be a good Fantastic Four movie in his lifetime.
The above is the never-released 1994 first FF film. (Of course, I owned a copy in the VHS days.) The theme music is good, at least!
A ghetto “Oceans 11” meets superhero movie! The stars may be white, but the funny supporting cast is Black and Latino.
The “urban audience” word-of-mouth will make this a strong hit for Marvel! This ALMOST makes up for Marvel giving Ava DuVernay the boot!
P.S. So onward to “Captain America: Civil War!”
THANKS as always, Saswat!
Drums in the Global Village 