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TODAY’S DAILY: KIRIKOU 2010
Oh, snap! Precious and awesome. And the warrior’s more modestly dressed in comparison to the original.
BTW, if you’ve never seen Kirikou and the Sorceress, you should. Great animated family film foolishly rated TV-MA by the network that aired it because of the nudity, which is non-sexualized and more akin to pre-colonial Africa (although there are tribal communities that still wear very little).
BLACK LIGHTNING.
better late than never. took his name more literally this time around.
Magnificent.
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ELECTRO.
Second electricity based character redesign, Imagine this Electro in the same universe as my Spider-Man design from a while ago. Kinda running low on a list of more electric dudes to redesign that I haven’t already, any ideas?
Hot Link: Comics: Prominent Black Super Villains? Maybe not -
Via my friends over at Komplicated and the folks over at Black Nerds Network pondered this question.
Aside from the Milestone characters, are there any prominent Black super villains in comics? They pointed out Black Manta in the DC titles and Tombstone from Marvel.
But there aren’t many Black comic book villains (kind of questioning their inclusion of Coldcast because he and the rest of the Elite weren’t villains per se (plus, the Elite became a clandestine unit of the Justice League later on).
Can you think of any major ones?
LIVEWIRE.
I’m back! I think this week I’m gonna do batman’s rogue’s gallery, and the week after will be spider-man’s.
update:
actually this week I’m going to do electricity based characters instead
I did a Superman revival pitch for an animated series for the site many moons ago. Still holds water. I had promised “no origin story for Superman” because, let’s face it, it’s been done to death. But for Leslie, had to do her origin into Livewire. Probably one of the best things to come out of his last animated series.
A sampling from John Jennings and Stacy “Blackstar” Robinson’s upcoming BLACK KIRBY gallery show, coming this September to Jackson State University’s Liberal Arts Building.
The show case is an homage to and a celebration of the legendary comic creator Jack Kirby while blending in some influences from the Black experience, including Afro-futurism, social justice, and hip-hop.
Here’s a link from Dominion New York telling more about the show as well as a few more pieces from the gallery. Also, read more about Mr. Jennings’ art and activism in this link.
Hat tip to the Black Comix Facebook page. Give them love too.