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A Belated CONGRATS To…….
…….Ta-Nehisi Coates for his Genius Grant honor!
My hope is that like the Hulk, the angrier he gets, the stronger he gets! (And vice-versa!)
His victory has inspired my scribe crew! We’re all gonna hit it harder!
OCTOBER 14th UPDATE: And CONGRATS on being a finalist for the National Book Award!
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but, of course, it was superceded by this journalistic-superhero stream crossing!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.
So What Should We Do With Cornel West?
Nothing. But read him, argue with him, think about what he is saying. Accept him. Dismiss him. Say he’s lost it. Think him a hater. Miss him when he becomes an Ancestor, because he stands up and talks loud when others are silent (like when Mumia Abu-Jamal was dying), and gets cuffed with others just talk.
Drums in the Global Village 