He’s an African answer to Batman. Okay, cool (I guess). But can he beat the original African Bat-copycat? 🙂 The first animated excerpt below, from the 1990s “Fantastic Four” animated series, is the adaptation of a 1966 (!) FF story that introduced the Black Panther. (He was the first Black (as in African) superhero in mainstream comics.) The next two are from the recent “Black Panther” DVD by Reginald Hudlin.
For the non-comics fan, the above images of the revised Superman costume(s?) are no big deal. But to comics geeks……WTF?!?!?!?! And then to hear about how the Clark-Lois marriage might be gone! (Just like Spider-Man, huh?) WOW! (Ladies and Gentlemen, the NEW DC.) Wonder how long it’s going to take George Perez to put him together with Wonder Woman! LOL!
Okay, my new mantra is “I trust Grant Morrison….I trust Grant Morrison….” Â How can I not, since he wrote Perhaps The Greatest Superman Story of All Time (the animated film version recently out on DVD)?
IMPORTANT ASIDE: I thought this—and the discussion it’s generated—has been an interesting part of the reboot/relaunch.
All exposition and cliche, and no real sense of excitement. Three thousand Lanterns DO NOTHING. Sinestro does NOTHING. Two-thirds in, I was thinking about a book I had bought before going into the theater. Sad.
(And Tim Robbins and Angela Bassett [!] get treated like cannon fodder! These are GREAT film actors, and THIS is what they have to do for checks in 2011?!? DAY-AM! :))
P.S. BUT the sequel should be GREAT! I was glad to know to stay half-way through the credits to see what I had really hoped to see!
Watch the full episode. See more American Experience.
……and I’m glad to see that this story is filled with TERROR. It should be, since it’s about terrorists.
But “Wonder Woman” didn’t get picked up by NBC. Hopefully the CW will step in, since it needs to replace “Smallville” anyway.
JUNE 2ND UPDATE: And now the DC Universe is rebooting?!? And in this reboot, DC has taken away Superman’s red overpants and given him a blue collar?!? Hmmm………
“No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.”
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And, boy, it sure has been nice outside since the Rapture! LOL! 🙂 I called my Born-Again Christian friends on Sunday, just to make sure they were still here with us heathens! LOL! 🙂
We’ll be studying your impact for years and years.
 
Drums in the Global Village 