BlackGeekdom Science-Fiction from a Different Perspective

Source: Newsarama

Here’s a few excerpts from the article where they interviwed writer Jeff Parker and editor Bill Rosemann .

Beginning in May’s Thunderbolts #144, the former hero-for-hire Luke Cage becomes leader, coach and counselor for a group of villains who are attempting to shed their vile roots. More than just a halfway house for supervillians, it’s a team looking to redeem itself – whether they like it or not.

Nrama: And the T-Bolts are rising from the ashes in some new digs… but not the kind of place I’d choose to live in. Jeff, what can you tell us about it?

Jeff Parker: First, it’s back to being an above-ground operation, based at The Raft supermax facility. Even former Thunderbolts are coming on as staff to help get the stain of Norman Osborn off the team and push again the idea of reform. All the most powerful criminals are now being contained at The Raft, an Alcatraz for the super community. At the east end of the prison is Thunderbolts tower, which all of the incarcerated can see from the courtyard, projecting up like a beacon, a constant reminder. You’re down there, you could be up here. And up here means closer to the world out of these walls where you’ll be expected to use your abilities to help for a change.

Parker: If you were wondering how Thunderbolts would shift into The Heroic Age, the answer is that they’re going to have a very real hero around supervising- the Power Man himself, Luke Cage. But there’s a lot of pressure on this latest incarnation of the Thunderbolts program to succeed, a lot of people want it dissolved.

Luke is walking, breathing, hitting proof that you can reform and be better than your circumstances shaped you. And he’s tough enough to deal with the worst of these mega-prisoners. If they think they’re going to pull some trick Luke hasn’t seen and trashed a hundred times before, they’re sadly mistaken.

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BRAVE AND THE BOLD MILESTONE TP
DC COMICS
(W) Dwayne McDuffie, John Rozum, Kurt Busiek, Matt Wayne and Adam Beechen (A) Denys Cowan, Howard Porter and others(C) Howard Porter
Don’t miss the first meeting of Static and Black Lightning, Blue Beetle and Hardware, The Spectre and Xombi and more titanic team-ups from THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #24-26, plus stories from HARDWARE #16, STATIC #12 and XOMBI #6. 10 160 pg, FC, $17.99 US

TITANS #22
DC COMICS
(W) J.T. Krul (A) Angel Unzueta & Wayne Faucher (C) Angel Unzueta
DC fans won’t want to miss this finale of the two-part “Fractured” story! As the remaining three members of the team are evicted from their New York City headquarters by General Lane, they wonder if there’s anywhere on Earth they can still call home. The answer will surprise you! This issue closes this chapter in the life of the classic Titans team and ushers in an exciting new era in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA and March’s TITANS ANNUAL that’ll blow your mind! 32 pg FC $2.99 US

WAR MACHINE TP VOL 02 DARK REIGN
MARVEL COMICS
(W) GREG PAK (A) CARLOS MAGNO, LEONARDO MANCO, ALLAN JEFFERSON & WELLINTON ALVES (C) FRANCESCO MATTINA
When Jim Rhodes returns home he comes face-to-face with American Eagle, last seen in the pages of THUNDERBOLTS-as two visions of America clash with earth-shattering results that may irrevocably change War Machine-and the nation he loves! Also: What the heck does Rhodes’ mom have to say about all of this? Find out in the latest pulse-pounding story arc of the series that CBR.com calls “high-octane, higher-caliber adventure…a visual spectacle worthy of the spotlight.” Guest-starring Ronin, Mockingbird, Tigra and Wonder Man! Collecting WAR MACHINE #6-12 168 PGS Rated T+ $15.99

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In honor of the King Holiday here’s a site that has a list of MLK’s apperances in Comic Book.     Joe Sergi’s Cup of Geek

Enjoy the Holiday.

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Marvel is publishing a new  four-issue New Avengers: Luke Cage, with pencils by Eric Canete and written by John Arcudi.   Here’s a few excerpts from the interview with John Arcudi.

Nrama: What’s the story you’ll be exploring in New Avengers: Luke Cage?

Arcudi: Luke discovers that an old friend, or rather the son of an old friend, has been following in his own footsteps down in North Philadelphia in a kind of “Hero-for-Hire” business. The young man, Leodis, has set up in the worst part of the city to help out people who couldn’t find help anywhere else. For his trouble, Leodis is beaten to a pulp. So now Luke feels that since this poor broken kid tried to be like him, he’s got to do something about this, which is to say, go kick some ass. But once he gets there, the facts are revealed to be a bit more complicated than what I’ve just told you. Ha haaaa. Psych!

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What is MILESTONE FOREVER, you ask? Well, we can take a guess, but why slow down the process? Since it’s part and parcel of what we do, being The Source and all, we talked to Milestone founder and MILESTONE FOREVER writer Dwayne McDuffie for the scoop on the new project, along with some essential back story to bring you newbies up to speed. Take it away, Dwayne:

16 years ago this month, industry giant DC Comics and upstart Milestone Media entered into an unprecedented creative partnership, producing 14 interlocking, creator-owned titles including Hardware, Icon, and the multimedia hit that would best be known as Static Shock. The story Milestone chose to tell was an audacious one, larger than life on its surface, character and story-driven at its base, Humanist and multicultural at its heart. For over 250 issues, fans explored a superhero universe like no other.

Today, nine Parents Choice awards, four Eisner Award nominations and one Emmy and Humanitas award-winning hit TV series later, Milestone is back, its continuity mysteriously merged with the DCU. While we saw the DC side of the story in “Justice League: When Worlds Collide,” Milestone Forever gathers the original artists from Milestone’s launch titles: John Paul Leon, Mark Bright, Chris Cross and Milestone Founder Denys Cowan, to complete the tales told in the original runs of STATIC SHOCK, ICON, HARDWARE, SHADOW CABINET and BLOOD SYNDICATE. Milestone Editor in Chief Dwayne McDuffie reveals the final fate of each of Milestone’s launch characters in a bittersweet tale that chronicles the literal end of a universe, and the birth of something new, with major consequences for the future of the DC Universe.

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Comicbook Resource has a interview with New Teen Titans writer Felicia D. Henderson.  She was co-executive producer of “Fringe,” “Gossip Girl” and “Soul Food: the Series,” which she also directed. She also wrote “Cheetah Girls 2″ and for the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and was a consulting producer and writer for “Everybody Hates Chris.”    Her first issue of Teen Titans #75 will be released on September 30.

Here’s a few excerpts from the article:

CBR: What can you tell us about the story you’re going to tell in your first arc of “Teen Titans?” Who’s the villain? Who are the key players?

FELICIA D. HENDERSON: What can I tell you? Well, not much because it’s changing even as I’m writing it and I’m writing it now. In fact, I should be writing now instead of talking to you. I have to go.

Joking, of course. Let’s see. In the first arc some characters will come, other characters will go, a villain will go on a terror that will wreak havoc on our team. Yes, I know I’m “Queen of Vague.”

Are you a long-time fan of the “Teen Titans” and comics in general?

I am a long time comic book fan. I was a sickly child, which meant lots of time on the Asthma inhaler and lots of time in the house while my brothers and sisters played outside. So I created my own alternate universe and comic bookshelped me do that. My sisters were reading Archies and I was reading “Batman” and coming up with ways the villains could take out my younger brother. Yes, I was dark even at ten years old.

 Getting a chance to write “Teen Titans” is so cool because it combines my strengths in writing teens, my love of comics, my science background, and my sci-fi sensibilities. And I’ve always loved the idea of creating stories about where this realm meets the spiritual/mystical one. In other words, I’m in heaven.

 

What are the major differences between writing for comics and television? “Teen Titans” is your first comic assignment, correct?

The biggest difference between the two is that you can rely on dialogue in television and you haveto rely on visual story telling in comics. In that way, comics are more like film, even more like silent film, which I love.

Also, because I’m so committed to doing a great job, the process is all-consuming for me now. Every page, every panel, every word of dialogue takes me forever because I take way too long to commit. This is my first full-length issue. To get my feet wet, I did a 10-page “Citizen Steel” story for the upcoming “Justice Society of America Annual” and that took me forever, too. But with “Teen Titans,” I’m on a serious time crunch so I won’t have the luxury of contemplating everything for so long.

Another difference is the intensity of weekly deadlines in television. You know you have to have an episode ready to go every week no matter what and that can be stressful, as well. Both mediums are very collaborative but the way the collaboration works is a little different. Breaking stories in a writers’ room surrounded by fellow writers means that television writing is never a lonely job. Also, there’s no better place to be than with other writers. I love the process.

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Source: Newsarama

Here’s a few excerpts from the article

Newsarama: To begin, can you tell readers a little bit about ‘Moon Over Harlem’, Mike?

‘Moon Over Harlem’ is a classic film noir kind of story. You have a protagonist who finds himself trapped in a spider’s web of invisible forces that are out to get him, or manipulate him for their own ends. It’s a dark story; and Luke Cage is such a wonderfully hard boiled character. It’s great fun to watch him fight (and think) his way out of his predicament.

NRAMA: Fair enough. I sounds like there will be similarities, but how is this Luke Cage different from his contemporary counterpart?

MB: The modern Luke Cage was created in the ‘70s and is very much a creature of that era. He’s basically a Blaxploitation character…

AG: He’s been reinterpreted several times since then and kind of cut loose from his roots. But in our story, the Luke Cage Noir character is very grounded in the Prohibition Era of gangsters, speakeasies and segregation. And in a funny way he’s actually closer to the original ‘70s conception of the character.

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Last week I was really looking forward to Black Panther # 4 and I was a little disappointed.    The story seems to be dragging or at least be so predictable that I know whats going to happpen before it happens.    Overall I have like Hudlins run on the series (at times it was a little uneven) but I prefer his version of BP over Christopher Priests run from a few years back.   I just wish he would pick up the pace a little bit.

My reccomendation for week is  Azrael: Death’s Dark Knight #3.  Its nice to see some new blood in Gotham the Azrael an African American ex-cop named Michael Washington Lane. He is approached by the Order of Purity to reclaim the mantle of Azrael after the Order of Dumas’ new Azrael went mad and killed an undercover police officer. On his first night as Azrael he fought Talia Al Ghul, new team of mercenaries led by Merlyn and Dick Grayson. After convincing Nightwing that he was not responsible for the murdered police officer, Dick persuades Talia to allow Michael to keep the Suit of Sorrows. Michael Lane is currently active in Gotham City working on an “eye for an eye” style of justice.    The last page of the book reveals that this will be an ongoing series starting in the fall.   Hopefully they will keep Fabian Nicieza as the writer and  Frazier Irving doing the art.  

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