BlackGeekdom Science-Fiction from a Different Perspective

For those of you who couldnt make it to San Diego for the con.  Here’s the audio from the panel.  DM also picked up the Inkpot award at the convention.  Dwayne McDuffie Panel Comic-Con 2009

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Source:  Scifi Wire

“No flight, no tights.”  Those were the rules established at the beginning of Smallville’s run.  We have seen Clark fly (as Kal-El), and he’s been running around as the Red/Blue Blur.  Now it appears that they are going to put him in tights, well sort of.  Here it is.

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Here’s the trailer for the Planet Hulk animated feature from SDCC. The film is based on the epic and critically acclaimed story from Incredible Hulk #92-105.  The film is set for release in Feb 2010.

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‘The Book of Eli’ Trailer HD

I am looking forward to this movie.

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This November, writer Charlie Huston (“Moon Knight”) and artist Lan Medina (“Foolkiller”) will reintroduce readers to “Deathlok” and his world in a seven issue mini-series from Marvel Comics

Source CBR

Huston finished his last “Deathlok” script almost a year ago, and much of the planning and plotting for the series was done three to four years ago, so the writer drew much of his inspiration for the series’s setting from the current events of the time. “The stuff that was on my mind was a lot of what was going on in Iraq in 2005-2006. Things were at their hottest there, and Blackwater, military contractors, and mercenaries were very big in the news. So what I pitched to my editor, Axel Alonso, was a story taking military contractors 20 years down the road,” Huston explained. “Basically, national armies cease to exist and wars are fought entirely by proxy by corporately owned and run armies. Warfare has become a spectator sport as well as a business.

“The set up for this is basically that, in this world, Manning is a soldier’s soldier. He’s not a superstar, but he’s a respected professional and military thinker. He’s someone who gets results. Mike Travers is a rising superstar in the face of the game. Both are blown up simultaneously, and both end up incorporated into Deathlok. So the internal dialog the original stories had between Manning and Deathlok manifests in this version as an internal dialog between these two different personalities, Manning and Travers.”

Huston’s series is strictly a science fiction story. “This is science fiction in the broadest possible sense,” Huston stated. “It’s not ‘Hard Sci Fi,’ where you take a science concept and try to extrapolate it to its natural conclusion. It’s two-fisted, pulp-adventure, science fiction.”

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Source: G4TV

True Blood is one of the best new shows on TV.  If you aren’t watching it then you should catch up.  Currently, its in Season 2 on HBO, Sunday nights at 9 PM.

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Spartacus: Blood and Sand – Official Trailer

The only thing that’s come out of Comic Con that I am excited about.

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Source:  Newsarama

Captain America/Black Panther: Flags of Our Fathers comes to us from Black Pantherwriter/multi-media talent Reginald Hudlin and writer/artist Denys Cowan.   The mini series focuses on Cap, and some other familiar faces who ran into the Black Panther of the 1940s during World War II

Here’s a few excerpts”

NRAMA:  As creators, what is the appeal of the World War II era?   And what’s it like to handle Captain America in that specific setting?
 
Hudlin:World War Two is when Black Panther and Captain America met.  It’s also a rich era, with characters like Nick Fury and the Howling Commandoes, the Red Skull, Baron Strucker, and other more obscure but interesting characters.
 
Captain America is still the noble man he was before he took the super soldier serum, but he’s green.  He’s still rocking the triangle shield.  That’s a fun period in his life to explore.

NRAMA: With Black Panther, he’s been established as a generational character.  Which Black Panther will we be seeing here, and how would the protector of Wakanda react to Cap and Nick Fury at that point in history?
 
Hudlin:Azzuri the Wise is the Black Panther, who is T’Chaka’s father, T’Challa’s grandfather.  We’ve seen him before in my first run of BLACK PANTHER where he defeats the Sub-Mariner in combat, then schools him to the future implications of WW2. There’s a reason why he’s called “the Wise”.
 
Azzuri sees a lot of promise in Steve Rogers.  It’s tough love, but he wants to help him.  As for Nick, Azzuri sees the war hero he is and the cold war spy he’s going to be…and treats him accordingly.

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Source: CBR

“There’s a new Doctor in the house,” Quesada said of the upcoming “Doctor Voodoo” series, debuting Jefte Palo’s interior art. Rick Remender writes that book.  Here’s a interview with Palo

 2010 will see “Captain America/Black Panther: Flags of Our Fathers,” a 4-issue mini by Reggie Hudlin and Denys Cowan, focusing on the Panther in WWII.  

Quesada said Marvel is “heading toward the end of the third act of what we started in ‘Civil War,’” and will pull back from mega-events. “You’ll see more family-oriented adventures, between the X-Men family, the Avengers family, and Daredevil,” he said.

McCann said that Marvel slowed down its trade paperback releases at the request of retailers to help support individual issue sales.

“Allan Heinberg is knee-deep in writing a massive ‘Young Avengers’-related project,” Quesada said in response to a question. He said Marvel will wait until Heinberg and the writer have finished everything to make sure the series comes out in a timely fashion.

“One of the things we’re trying to acknowledge that there’s a new planet in our solar system, and that the race of Kryptonians had been conquerors. One of the races they conquered was the Thanagarians, who come by and are like, what the eff?”

The Thanagarians arrive as the Kryptonians are moving one of Jupiter’s moons to New Krypton. A Joe Kubert cover will see the Hawk characters fighting Commander Kal-El and Robinson added that he wants to turn Mon-el from a “weak J’onn J’onzz” to “the alien Namor.”

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In a Q and A sessions on CBR  Marvels Editor in Chief Joe Quesada (and new Chief Creative Officer of Animation) gave an update on the Black Panther Animated series.

“Since you’ve been involved in various Marvel animation projects, by chance have you heard any new developments about BET’s Black Panther animated series? There were some casting announcements a few months ago, but nothing since then not even a release date. Can we still expect it by the end of 2009?”

Joe Quesada:  I’m sort of coming into this in the middle and just got a DVD of the first episodewhich I plan on watching on my flight to SDCC. That said, I asked [Executive Producer] Reggie Hudlin what the status of the BET Black Panther animates series. He wrote back: “There’s a lot I can’t say, but we are deep in production, and there’s some great new additional casting that I can’t talk about right now. The series is now covering in more material than was in the original six issues, which has caused some production delays. So it won’t be airing this year. That said, the cast sports some all-star talent, including: Djimon Honsou as T’Challa, the Black Panther; Kerry Washingtonas Shuri, sister of T’Challa; Alfre Woodard as the Queen Mother and Dondi Reese; Carl Lumbly as Uncle S’Yan; and of course, Stan Lee!”

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