Nick Delmacy Finally Got His Book Printed
Your boy Nick Delmacy finally printed his 25 chapter novel called “The Season: Awakenings”
Throwback Thursday – Revisiting The Short Film ‘Slow’
For Throwback Thursday we revisit one of our first short films we featured on the site (over 7 years ago) which happens to also be one of our favorites exploring the act of ‘hooking-up’. I remember when I first watched the short and the feeling…
Image Comics Presents ‘Excellence’
While I haven’t actually purchased comics in a 4 years, Image comics will always hold a special place for me due to it being the home of my favorite character ‘Spawn’. Before Black Panther gained mainstream name recognition, Black protagonist Al Simmons (Spawn) was the…
Collector’s Edition of Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys
Some of you may be familiar with the African Spider god Anansi brought into mainstream media by the Starz television series American Gods. American Gods is a novel by Neil Gaiman which mixes mythology and fantasy revolving around ex-convict Shadow. In the television series we…
The Cypher Avenue Winter 2017 Reading-List
Might be time to have an official Cypher Avenue Squad Member Approved Reading-List on the site. In this thread everyone can either tell us what they are currently reading or suggest books that they’ve read in the past.
I’m Down to my Last Black Nerds Sci-Fi group on Facebook
My crossing into the sci-fi event horizon was in the early 80’s with influences by Flash Gordon, Alien, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Heavy Metal magazine, Conan the Barbarian, X-Men comics and Millipede the video game. I feel like I must include kung fu theater in…
What if Only Black People had Super Powers?
Black Mask Studios had a successful campaign raising over $95k earlier this year to help create their new comic Black. From their website Black is described as X-Men meets The Wire. They do on further to state: “In a world that already hates and fears…
Black Panther is Back
It’s April and the new Black Panther comic written by acclaimed author Ta-Nehisi Coates is here. The comic comes out weeks before we will finally see the live action King of Wakanda appear in Captain America’s Civil War. Coates breaks down his thoughts and methods…
X-Men: Apocalypse Trailer
Uncanny X-Men was my first comic I fell in love with in the 80’s. I appreciated the diversity of the team and its villains created by Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby. In the 90’s when the X-Men cartoon came out, it heavily pulled from…
Marvel’s Hip Hop Covers
This past summer Marvel announced and released images of their hip hop inspired variant comic covers that have been debuting each week in October. Admittedly I wasn’t to enthused being that I haven’t been interested in Marvel comics in years. The initial Marvel Knights reboot…
Spider-Man Has To Be White and Not a Homo
Back in 2011, Marvel Comics premiered a black/latino Spider-Man named Miles Morales. A couple of years later, raising star Donald Glover and his fans were campaigning Hollywood execs to cast him as the next Peter Parker (or Morales) in a Spider-Man film franchise reboot. Little…
I’m Over the Gayness in Comics
June is LGBT Pride Month and DC Comics in conjunction with The Advocate released a video showcasing the history of LGBT characters in DC Comics. This video also coincides with the release of the comic Midnighter #1. I’ve always been a fan of Apollo &…
BOOK REVIEW – INFAMOUS: The Autobiography of Ta’Leon Goffney
In a new autobiography written by Ta’Leon Goffney, “In Search For A Better Life, this is How I Became…INFAMOUS”, we not only discover his version of the events that led to the heterosexual twin (briefly) diving into the gay porn industry, we also get insight on how he became a career criminal.
The Grief of Diavido
We come upon the ranking Brotherhood Collective head, Diavido as he glares at Okoruro’s den. Okoruro has summoned Diavido to discuss an imperative matter. Crestfallen, Diavido is reluctant to enter. He musters a nonchalant half grin and calls out. Okoruro; oh mad but wise one,…
LeSean Thomas’ Cannon Busters
Even though I stopped reading and collecting comics back in 1999, the manga style art work of Battle Chasers was one of my favorites. In the vein of Battle Chasers, fast forward to 2014 and the Kickstarter campaign for Cannon Busters, a proposed animated short/series…
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