Hmm….so the title comes back in February 2009 with a female Panther. Being that it’s comics, I guess all I can say is, “Well, let’s see how this goes.” I just hope that this time it won’t take 38 issues for Hudlin to get it right.
Category Archives: magazine
The Three Presidential Debates, In Summary :)
Special thanks to Greg Adamo for showing me this!
Did You See…….
“Torturing Democracy” when it slipped onto public television this month? If not, PLEASE go to the site and watch it, and you’ll see why the PBS folks are not that thrilled. Of course, this level of cowardice from PBS isn’t exactly new.
Third Time Lucky
Boy, between this third cover and last issue’s (true) journalistic hit-job on McCain, Rolling Stone has set a new standard for clarity. 🙂
OCTOBER 30th ADD-ON: I bet Rolling Stone would like this.
40 of "60"
Wow! Kinda relevant, huh? 🙂
Wow! National Review Columnist–A Buckley, Even!–Endorses Obama!
Brief Book Review: Post-HipHoppers
This brand-new book occupies the intellectual space between Kevin Powell’s essay collections and Bakari Kitwana’s seminal work.
M.K. Asante, Jr., a filmmaker, poet and college professor, adds his name to the list of young (under 45 🙂 ) Blacks who’ve written works that seek to combine journalism, personal essays and contemporary history, using hiphop of the point of departure. He is an optimistic self-described “artivist,” a 26-year-old writing to inspire younger people who will pick up this book because of its title. It’ll be their text for Black Contemporary Socio-Political Development 101, and believe me, they need it.
Get this book for the teenager (or college-aged young adult) in your life and make him or her read it. Then make him or her look up all of the authors he mentions.
Trailer Time!
Although I will never be a fan of Reginald Hudlin’s first arc (see my comments at the bottom of this link), I admit this trailer (check the interview below it)—a word-for-word, scene-for-scene adaptation of that story’s first few pages—had me quite excited.
He’s greatly improved (I really liked BP 38), but to be honest, I’ve always thought that Hudlin’s Panther work would make better movies and television than comics. But I think it’s more about me being too old to read modern Marvel Comics. Judging by the first issue, the writer who replaced Hudlin for the current arc made the BET exec seem literary in comparison. 🙂
Did You See……….
….the excellent Harlem Book Fair panel on James Baldwin? The S. Pearl Sharp discussion of Baldwin’s Hollywood adventures—trying to produce a film on El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz—was worth the time alone. And Herb Boyd’s masterful work of moderator-as-narrator. And Baraka. Damn. That’s all they wrote.
CONGRATS To………
…..my nephew Andrew Burroughs Jr., who is being honored this week by the Newark Black Film Festival. His film won the Long Narrative Competition. The award, the 2008 Paul Robeson Award, is being presented by Paul Robeson Jr.
JULY 30th UPDATE: My nephew tells me last night Mr. Robeson is sick, so Richard Wesley is doing the honors. Get well soon, Mr. Robeson.
P.S. In an unrelated note, enjoyed this NPR story on Kevin Powell’s Congressional run. Congrats to you too, K.P.
P.P.S. More unrelated: Congrats to Pacifica’s “Democracy Now!” and NPR’s “Tell Me More” for actually covering what Obama said at “Unity” about reparations, et. al.
