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COMICS February |OT| of Curious (Black) Creators & Curious (Black) Characters!

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A celebration of black creators and characters for February, and related funnybook shenanigans.

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Savage Dragon: The Kids Are Alright

Malcolm Dragon is green you say? His mother was a black woman (Sharona Jackson, aka Rapture), good enough for a certain President - GOOD ENOUGH FOR MALCOLM!

Malcolm Eugene Jackson Dragon is half Krylan and half human.

Like the good old days of mutants in the Marvel Universe Malcolm’s genetic differences from normal humans have kicked in during his teen years. Most obvious is his Krylan physique (fin included), but constantly hinted at in the current issues is the inheritance from his mother - the ability to generate and make use of electrostatic energy!

http://savagedragonwiki.wikispaces.com/

Blaster Knuckle - Hollywood style sales pitch:

INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS*!

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*These true events being American slavery and the KKK... I WISH IT MEANT VAMPIRES, DEMONS, AND WEREWOLVES!

Read it online! Protege / accomplice of Kentaro “Idol Master” Miura provides the greatest manga about the fighting the undead Man!

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Sabre - Paul Gulacy and Don McGregor created one of the earliest graphic novels, one featuring a black lead!

From Examiner.com

Described as the consummate hero, Sabre lives in a futuristic, sci-fi western world full of both blasters and cutlasses. A world where high technology exists side-by-side with traditional, and even retro tech. Sabre himself is something of a romantic freedom fighter living in a world that he considers has gone mad. The U.S. has been all but devastated by a nuclear holocaust and the ruling powers, which are led by the villainous Overseer, have gained control over most of the world.

Still, despite the desolation of the world, and the apparent hopelessness of their situation, Sabre and his band of rebels have escaped their new masters and are determined to fight back. Still, Sabre is more than “just another” swashbuckling adventure. It is a seminal piece of work that was not only groundbreaking in both its style and approach to graphic storytelling, but set the tone for much of what was to follow.

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Fred Perry - Gold Digger

IIRC the history of Gold Digger goes something like this, during Operation Desert Storm Fred Perry was serving in the US Army and would draw good girl art for his fellow soldiers in exchange for comfort items sent from back home. When he came back, he turned his penchant for drawing pretty girls into a full time gig on Gold Digger at Antarctic Press.

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Gold Digger fuses Perry’s love of Indiana Jones, 80’s cartoons, anime, video games, and just general craziness. 20 years strong it’s worth checking out to give FP some love in a tough business.

I realize some folks will cry about his style, Fred Perry is the indie John Romita Jr. he has a deadline style. You get back to me with your weak attacks when you can name for me another creator that writes, draws, letters, and colors their own book every month. You do that and I’ll give you a pass. >:|

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Kyle Baker - Prolific, diverse, wildly talented. If you don’t know Kyle Baker you ought to! He’s another one of the hardest working dudes in the comic industry and beyond. >:|

- Why I Hate Saturn
- The Cowboy Wally Show
- Nat Turner
- Plastic Man
- The Bakers

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Arvell Jones - Arvell Jones is just a super nice guy and crazy talented. I’ve met him a number of times at various conventions and he is always willing to share stories of the industry and will blow your mind with his ambidextrous art talent. I walk by in the morning and he’s drawing with his right hand, pass by later in the afternoon and he’s drawing equally well with his left hand! I stood between him and Adam Hughes trying to divide my attention between booby drawings and this wizard who draws crazy good with either damn hand!

He recounted to me his tale of breaking into the comics industry. Starting with a cunning father who played a big part in motivating his son at a young age. When Arvell told his father he wanted to draw comics, his father told him that was all well and good; but he would have to draw some comics - not just talk about it.

So Arvell took this challenge and started drawing his own comics. His friends in school were all impressed and enjoyed his comics. Arvell showed his father, “Look I made my own comics.”

His father told him, that’s all well and good but he’s not drawing comics until he’s drawing for a paid publication.

Arvell took this challenge and started submitting work to Marvel and DC. Eventually landing a job at Marvel.

It’s a great story that he will tell if you ask how he broke into comics. You really ought to ask him yourself if you see him at a convention in your travels.

He’s a classic style cartoonist who has done some amazing work at DC over the years, check it out if you dig old school.

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Larry Stroman - He doesn’t get as much work anymore, but he was a big contributor to X-Factor with Peter David in the 90’s. With a unique visual style and great storytelling he was a refreshing change of pace from the prevalent Image Style of the 90’s X-Books.

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Keith Pollard - Where the White Women At Award! Co-creator of my favoritest comic gal ever Black Cat! Thank you Mr. Pollard, Mr. Wolfman, and Mr. Cockrum for turning me down a path of perversion at a young age. The first time I saw Black Cat (around age 4 or 5) I knew what the perfect woman looked like. :3

Mr. Pollard also pencilled cheesy 90’s favorite of mine Thunderstrike for a number of issues. AW YEAH THOR KNOCK-OFF WITH A PONY TAIL! Blood Axe must return!

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Dexter Vines - This Ebon Embellisher has put his silky smooth inks on artists from Leinil Francis Yu to Ed McGuinness, making half of the EdEx art team. You can check out his full body of work, but I will tell you to run not walk to check out his work on Hulk.

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Black Panther by Christopher Priest and company:

From Nerdage Blog

Christopher Priest wrote the definitive “Black Panther” run, starting as part of the “Marvel Knights” line in 1998. Though most of the book isn’t available in collections, it’s well-worth tracking down the entire run.
Black Panther 1-62 ran from 1998 through 2003, with all but two issues written by Christopher Priest (formerly Jim Owlsley).

The first 12 issues are almost a Tom Clancy novel with an African king as the star. With artists Mark Texiera on issues 1-6 and Joe Jusko, Mike Manley and Mark Bright on issues 7-12.

The Black Panther is an Avenger, but he’s not exactly a superhero. The Black Panther is T’Challa, the king of the technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda. He wears the costume of the Black Panther as the head of the Panther Clan in his land.

The full run available on Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited and on the Amazon.com Marketplace.

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Milestone Comics - Basically the FUBU of Funnybooks. The common complaint about black heroes written by white scribes is the lack of sincerity or world experience (see also: Grant Morrison’s awful, awful Black Lightening Final Crisis one shot and one note depiction of the Tattooed Man), in the 1990’s in collaboration with DC Comics a group of African American creators took a stab at establishing a comic imprint featuring a predominantly black cast of characters.

Icon
Hardware
Blood Syndicate
Static

Dwayne McDuffie (and others) on Milestone Comics part 1
Dwayne McDuffie (and others) on Milestone Comics part 2

Come on DC, you mean to tell me you have room for Wildstorm’s D-List crap like Voodoo, Grifter, and Storm Watch in the New 52; but you can’t bring back Hardware or Icon? :|

Mister Terrific doesn’t count as he’s never had his own series that has lasted as long as Hardware or Icon, and Static Shock just sounds like it was killed by wild incompetence.

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Dwayne McDuffie - Justice League Unlimited

We lost Dwayne McDuffie last year, and you should pay him tribute by watching his work on some of the best damned Justice League stories ever animated.

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Sidebar Podcast - Dwight, Swain, and Adrian three brothers doing a comics podcast that fills my need to hear from the artists behind my favoritest hobby ever.

This is just a sampling of the black characters and creators you will find out there, feel free to plug your own favorites as the thread moves along.

Supplemental:

Free Comic Book Day is the first Saturday in May. Other factions of neogaf are into gift, candy, crazy-butt-loving exchanges around various times of the year.

Would any of you weenies and weeniettes be interested in a FCBD Funnybook Exchange?

This would be a great way to inflict crap you like upon unsuspecting members (Shoehorn, Gran Morrison’s latest trianwreck - whatevah) or just find a loving home for overstock in your collection.

Just a random idea that popped into my head. Thank god it was that and not my inevitable demise followed the eternal darkness, eternal silence and passage of time until the universe collapses and it all ends rendering everything obsolete - OH GOD NOT DESPAIR AGAIN!!!1
 

Satch

Banned
CUZ MY BODY'S TOO BOOTYLICIOUS FOR YOU BABE


DC COMICS


SUPERMAN & CO.

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BATMAN & CO.

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GREEN LANTERN & THE CORPS.

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TEAMS

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DEC110192 JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL #6 $2.99
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MISC.

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FOR THE KIDS!

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CUZ MY BODY'S TOO BOOTYLICIOUS FOR YOU BABE

Reflecting upon my Savage Dragon plug, I think the only way a comic book could possible please me more is if it was about ample bosomed woman with breasts that punched people.

Hardware is in Static Shock?! Why was I not informed of this?!

Oh because nobody is reading it. >:|
 

Parallax

best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
You should have put eyeshield 21 as most embarrassing praise of black people.
 

Satch

Banned
Reflecting upon my Savage Dragon plug, I think the only way a comic book could possible please me more is if it was about ample bosomed woman with breasts that punched people.

Hardware is in Static Shock?! Why was I not informed of this?!

Oh because nobody is reading it. >:|

well i didn't think you cared that he was in it

he was static's advisor and provided him with all his gear
 

Dance Inferno

Unconfirmed Member
Next OT should be a celebration of attractive white women in comics. Might be difficult to find enough examples to fill up the whole post though.
 
You should have put eyeshield 21 as most embarrassing praise of black people.

I should do a top 5 moments in comics that spawned "I am not a racist but..." comments.

Shout outs to Rick Jones buddy with AIDS from that god awful topical Hulk issue back in the day. I re-read that run when Ang Lee's Hulk came out and man. . . so embarrassing. :X

well i didn't think you cared that he was in it

he was static's advisor and provided him with all his gear

To be fair, is it Hardware 2.0 or stupid Hardware with his hair showing? That design pisses me off so bad. Who leaves their head exposed like that and isn't named Batman? :|
 

Slayven

Member
Shout outs to Rick Jones buddy with AIDS from that god awful topical Hulk issue back in the day. I re-read that run when Ang Lee's Hulk came out and man. . . so embarrassing. :X

Even more embarrassing when the kid father comes back and joins the Gamma Corps to get revenge on Hulk for his son getting AIDs.

That's a collection of the story Paul Cornell got stuck writing on Action Comics, right before the reboot.

You mean the one with the showstopping and memorable Doomslayer?
 

Parallax

best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
Shout outs to Rick Jones buddy with AIDS from that god awful topical Hulk issue back in the day. I re-read that run when Ang Lee's Hulk came out and man. . . so embarrassing. :X
Ugh, is that the one with the razor armed dude with razor blades, and we find out the hulk is immune to aids? I forgot about that.
 
You forgot the Falcon. My personal favorite Black character from Marvel.

Open to all suggestions.

Plug your favorite run.

I definitely found myself leaning more toward Marvel than DC's cast of black characters writing this up. Outside of Milestone, DC doesn't really have many (any) memorable black characters.

I mean come on, Static has essentially replaced the embarrassment that is Black Lightening.

I was going to include Fatality (hot) from Green Lantern, but it turns out she's alien and I'm being an Aspertard with regards to that.

Tesla Strong was also eliminated due to me being incapable of nailing down the coordinates of Attabar Teru, which is described as being West Indian. :(

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You should still read it anyhow. Arthur Adams is a god amongst men and sexy women. :3
 

-Mikey-

Member
Next OT should be a celebration of attractive white women in comics. Might be difficult to find enough examples to fill up the whole post though.

As long as Kate Kane is in there we're cool!

2012 will be an amazing year for comics! Winter Soldier is this week I think. Later this month we'll finally get Glory and one I've been looking forward to, Conan The Barbarian.
 

Satch

Banned
kate kane is like the whitest white chick in all of comicdom

the queen of the vampires


bandit here's hardware:

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Parallax

best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
I would have loved if marvel really ran with the blue marvel as a character. Even as a counter to the sentry. But I guess he wasn't marketable or something.. maybe if he was the "all new sentry!" Then he could have gotten a push or something.
 

Slayven

Member
Synch a good natured, smart black kid from the suburbs. We knew he wasn't long for comics, but we enjoyed the time he was there.

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Indie shipping list for this week:

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Bolded my pickups.

Lock this thread please.

That picture is revolting.

EDIT: Is she reading an erotic novel???

More muscle girls for me! :3

You so crazy! Joe Jusko is a god.
 

akira28

Member
Year or two ago, they brought Hardware, Icon and the Shadow Cabinet over to DC. They were badasses and beat the Justice League like it wasn't even a thing. So they could bring them over to new 52 land, if they were so inclined.
 

Satch

Banned
Year or two ago, they brought Hardware, Icon and the Shadow Cabinet over to DC. They were badasses and beat the Justice League like it wasn't even a thing. So they could bring them over to new 52 land, if they were so inclined.

well they did bring hardware over

except the book he was in (Static Shock) was cancelled. we're likely to not see another Milestone character show up for a while
 

Parallax

best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
well they did bring hardware over

except the book he was in (Static Shock) was cancelled. we're likely to not see another Milestone character show up for a while
which is a shame. Holocaust would make for a great titans villain.

And icon would be nice to see too.
 
Sorry to bring the thread down but I just found out one of the guys who works at my local comic shop passed away today after being hit by a car while on his bicycle. Such a nice guy who was always super nice and helped me find a bunch of the comics I'm reading today. Plus he introduced me to John's Green Lantern run awhile back and caught me up with the lore for the Sinestro Corps arc.

Ugh.
 
Sorry to bring the thread down but I just found out one of the guys who works at my local comic shop passed away today after being hit by a car while on his bicycle. Such a nice guy who was always super nice and helped me find a bunch of the comics I'm reading today. Plus he introduced me to John's Green Lantern run awhile back and caught me up with the lore for the Sinestro Corps arc.

Ugh.

Damn sorry to hear that. Rest in Peace.

I really wish motorists would stop being such cocks toward cyclists and pay attention to the road. :(
 
Is the Futurama comic any good? I love the show and wouldn't mind getting me some more Futurama.

It's consistently well done.

When the cancelled the show it was the only way to get my fix and now that it's on cable which I don't have, it's still my only way to get my fix. :p

I misplaced some illusrtation paper. Now I'm going crazy trying to find it. >:|

I may need to finish using a pad to invoke the cosmos to release the location of it.
 

LiQuid!

I proudly and openly admit to wishing death upon the mothers of people I don't like
I think I might have to finally stop picking up Red Lanterns this month. I'm trying my damndest to stay on all the Lantern related books but RL seems to be trying harder and harder every month to get me to quit it. That first issue was kind of amazing. Why can't all issues just be Dex-Starr barfing blood napalm on hostile aliens? What's all this emo brooding and introspection crap?
 
Cool, I was thinking of picking up the AHM trade.

What do you think of the new series so far?

I've only read the one so far (Robots in Disguise still sitting in my stack), but it's hard to make a judgement call until it gets a bet farther. I'm not a huge Bumblee or Rodimus fan though..
 
Diamond:
Previews #281 February 2012

Marvel Comics:
Avengers Academy #25
Punisher #8
The Twelve #9 (of 12)
Uncanny X-Force #21
Uncanny X-Men #6
X-Factor #231

Other Publishers:
Fatale #2 (Image)
Warlord of Mars Annual #1 (Dynamite)

Slayven said:
Should we have a moment of silence for Aqualad?
neojubei said:
What happened to Aqualad?
Slayven said:
Flashpointed.
He's really gone? I'm surprised they didn't pull a "Garth never existed, Whats-His-Name is the only Aqualad there ever was" like they did with Wally and Donna.
 
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