The “post-modern” Avengers comic that this cartoon adapts was the basis for the film. For instance, the first 15 minutes is basically the last half-hour of last year’s “Captain America: The First Avenger.”
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New "Avengers" Clip!
YES!!!!!!! More!!!!!!!!!!
The Avengers: Sneak Peek: "Road to The Avengers" by JenovaDurango
Shameless TV Hype At The "Avengers" Premiere :)
“Access Hollywood”‘s Shaun Robinson is quite funny here. Even though it’s her job to hype this up, I almost believe her. It’s ’cause I want to, though. 🙂 This makes me want to go to the midnight premiere and just tough it out.
Trailers For Movies I Might See ("MIB 3" and "Sparkle")
Whitney looks good here. Her question “Wasn’t my life enough of a cautionary tale for you?” gives me chills.
"The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes" Is Back!
Black Panther and War Machine! Cap’s electronic shield! (Too bad Cap has been replaced by a Skrull! WOW!) “Civil War” looming! And Maria Hill having the hots for Stark! As Stan would say: “This one has it ALL, True Believers!” LOL! 🙂
Onto May 4th!
One Month Away! One Month Away!
So I thought I’d post some snippets of some “Avengers” cartoons over the years.
New Comic: "(H)afrocentric"
Thanks to Mark Bolden.
For Immediate Release
(H)afrocentric: the Comic
P.O. Box 11359
Piedmont, CA 94611April 3, 2012
For more information:
W:Â www.hafrocentric.com
FB:Â www.facebook.com/hafrocentric
E:Â hafrocentric@gmail.com
Twitter: @hafrocentric[Oakland, CA] (H)afrocentric: the Comic Vol. 2, set to be released April 10, 2012 presents a clear and funny narrative that connects the not always clear and not always funny outposts of comic books, politics and popular culture.
Writer Juliana Smith has teamed up with illustrator Ronald R. Nelson to create a bright and visual bang of cultural commentary through characters that look like America. With the first series of (H)afrocentric featured in Occupy Comix as well as on Women’s Magazine Radio and Block Report Radio, (H)afrocentric aims to do something new in the world of comic books.
In the comic’s second installment, it’s The Boondocks Huey Freeman meets X-Men’s Professor X as (H)afrocentric heroine Naima Pepper attempts to thwart the growing gentrification in her new neighborhood. Naima and friends, and her reluctant brother, decide to create MYDIASPORA.COM, the first and only anti-gentrification social networking site on earth. Through a series of fundraising events, they manage to lay the groundwork to support their idea, movement and website. But will their efforts be able to stop gentrification?
A preview of Vol. 2 can be found here
Smith is currently traveling to schools and college campuses speaking about the possibilities of independent media through comics, as well as the following subjects:
- Comic Book Superhero(ines), Race, Gender and Expectations
- A Comic Book lineage from Torchy to The Black Panther to (H)afrocentric.
- Writing your Passion- Creating a Comic Book 101
To book Smith as a guest speaker or for more information on (H)afrocentric: the Comic, please visit www.hafrocentric.com or email hafrocentric@gmail.com.
Best,
Juliana “Jewels” Smith
(H)afrocentric
********************(H)afrocentric: the Comicweb: www.hafrocentric.comTwitter: @hafrocentric “Because it’s hard being Afrocentric in a Eurocentric world…”
Comicbook Review: "Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child," No. 1
Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child, No. 1
Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, Denys Cowan and John Floyd.
Vertigo.
32 pp. $2.99.
 Thriller and chiller. “Requiem, Chapter One: Deep, Dark, Brown” is the title of the first issue of this new Vertigo series. The heroine is learned about literally on the run. By the end, she is profiled while she is profiled. Louisiana is the setting, a place that always had some type of zombies and ghosts roaming somewhere in the swamps of the nation’s imagination.
The tension between the swift action and the slow narration works. Hinds perhaps tries too hard to set the tone, but his attempt at prose poetry works as well as Cowan’s strong-as-ever style. Hinds, given his own “On The Ledge” column, Vertigo’s  text spotlight, discusses his attempt: “For DOMINIQUE LAVEAU: VOODOO CHILD to truly come alive, I had to soak the series in that [New Orleans swinging] reality. I wanted to find a narrative style that captured the thematic richness of New Orleans music, the pain and the joy, as well as the structural aspects of the town’s songwriting, particularly with regard to jazz—the steady reprise of a verse structure, the improvisionational flights of a solo.” Yes, appreciated, but less is more in comics (and perhaps jazz, too).
But alive it is, and moving fast. The past is rising up out of the fresh mud of post-Katrina New Awlins, dirty and revealing. Self-discovery carries its own terrors and, in fiction, spilled blood always seems to follow. This first issue does a good job of setting up the pieces in ways that feel real.
The Last Word On…………
Jason Russell nu dans la rue (Kony 2012) by Spi0n
………The White Savior? How about this? Sad. Physician, please heal thyself.
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…..Juan Gonzalez’s great scoop! He’ll get the Pulitizer for this one, since he was robbed for his 911 stories, rewritten here.
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………..Mobeius, the illustrator of two of my favorite fantasy books. THANK YOU.
Drums in the Global Village 