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Review: DCUC Green Lantern Kyle Rayner Review
By Christopher Troy Happy New Years Forbidden Planet Faithful! Hope you rang in 2011 with style and class, or if you’re like me, with a Four Loko and Rock Band 3 with several friends. Anyway, it’s my first post of the year, and I’m going to make sure it’s a good one! Nothing is more satisfying when one of my favorite pop-culture characters get the plastic treatment and gets his own figure in a popular adult collector’s line. The first line of the DCUC Green Lantern Classic spinoff line is on shelves now, and it has a nice diverse roster.
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Documentary on Black Masculinities in Comic Books, “From Shaft to …
Readers may be interested in the film Shaft or Sidney Poitier, “a documentary film examining the representation of Black masculinity in comic books ” produced by Jonathan Gayles. Academics writing on comics, popular culture and gender ...
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Is Santa Claus A Superhero?
The original poster for this had the tagline "The Greatest Superhero of All Time!" And poster taglines don't lie! Maybe it’s because I grew up on SANTA CLAUS: THE MOVIE (that 80s flick with Dudley Moore and John Lithgow that was made by the same producers who did
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NewBlackMan: Trailer: Shaft or Sidney Poitier: Black Masculinity …
Through interviews with prominent artists, scholars and cultural critics along with images from the comic books themselves, Jonathan Gayles' Shaft or Sidney Poitier: Black Masculinity in Comic Books examines the degree to which early ...
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Comic review: Black Panther: The Man Without Fear No. 513
By Carlton Hargro The Deal: After recent developments in two Marvel comic books — Doomwar and Shadowland — the blind superhero Daredevil has decided to leave Hell's Kitchen (the neighborhood he protects). In his place stands the Black Panther, who takes on the role without his famed technology, his powers, his royal mantle or even his wife (the X-Man Storm)
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Bluewater Bring the Blackeyed Peas to Comic Books | Hypergeek
The Black Eyed Peas will make history of a different sort this February. That's when Bluewater Productions will ship its latest comic, Fame: The Black Eyed Peas to comic shops and online retailers across the country.
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Comic Book Review Power Rankings for 12/15/10
It’s Thursday and you know what that means! It’s time for the Comic Book Review Power Rankings . Wait…what
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Comic Book Moments of the Week for 12/15/10
Time for some Moments of The Week ! This week we have for you: beer, milk, and plenty of blood, though not necessarily in that order.
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Black Canary