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In the Black Panther comics, Bast, also known as the Panther God or the Panther Goddess, is typically depicted as a powerful and mystical figure associated with the Black Panther superhero. The character’s representation as a large “white” feline has always been
Tracing the history of blacks in comic books is much like tracing blacks in the American history offered in school books; you can find blacks appearing sporadically or when directly contributing to the particular subject, but otherwise are not the focus, or
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In 2012 writer/director Quentin Tarantino’s American Western film Django Unchained hit movie theaters. The movie, often referred to as a “highly stylized spaghetti western”, is the story of Django, a slave who is in search of his wife Broomhilda, who had been
The year is 1969. Toyo Harada, chairman and founder of the Harbinger Foundation and also one of the most powerful psiots (a psiot is a person in the Valiant Universe with superhuman abilities; in this case psychic or telepathic) in the world,
The fall is approaching and new titles have been announced that will appear at the end of the massive Secret Wars event that is currently running this summer. In all, Marvel will be releasing 45 new titles with number ones under the
We are nearing the two year anniversary of the Marvel Now initiative, so we here at WOBH are taking a look at where it is now. The Marvel Now initiative was a company wide event that saw the relaunching of titles with
In 1971 with the relaxing of the Comic Code Authority, which served as the oversight and moral enforcer for comics, Marvel took advantage of their dropping their longstanding ban on vampire by publishing the comic The Tomb of Dracula in April 1972.
The events of the Infinity War has once again brought back into the spotlight one of the iconic black characters in the Marvel Universe. Born Carl Lucas, our man Lucas “Luke” Cage, once known as Power Man, is pulled back into
Recently Marvel announced the addition of David Alleyne, a.k.a. Prodigy to their Young Avengers line-up. The addition of Prodigy was a welcome one…at first. Marvel announced later that Prodigy has now revealed that he is bi-sexual! This news caused an
In October 2012 Marvel relaunched several of its ongoing series with #1 issues and debuted several new titles. This move was in response to the events stemming from its latest event: AVX. The relaunched titles go under the Marvel Now! banner.
In Sept 2011, the DC Universe undertook the bold initiative to not only relaunch it’s titles with #1 issues, but also to revamp characters, and even redo origins. The company announced it would cut the number of magazines it published down to
As I sit here waiting for the next issue of Black Panther Most Dangerous man Alive, despite the shoddy false advertising which threw me for a loop recently (Black Panther Man without fear #517), I got to thinking Why is Marvel still
“A leader…is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”- Nelson Mandela Icon #1 opens with an Alien crash land
Depending on whom you talk with, the 90’s were either a new beginning in the world of comic books or it was the beginning of the end. Many will point out the financial woes of Marvel, or the direct market comic distributors
Stepping out of Daredevil season 2, the Punisher made his Netflix debut in November. While it didn’t break the internet like the premier of Luke Cage, it garnered a decent following. With the shows set not only in the same comic universe,
I know it’s late. Actually very late but hey, better late than never I always say. In case you’ve been living under a rock you need to catch up on our yearly reccomendations below before digging deep into 2017! 16 Comics To
When the internet was a buzz that black female movie director Ava Duvernay was set to direct the “always coming but never actually happened Black Panther Movie”. At first I was excited then realized that like Hudlin’s run on Black Panther
When it was announced that Michael B. Jordan had been cast to play the role of The Human Torch in 2015’s Fantastic Four film reboot, the news was met with criticism that ran the gamete from not being faithful to the comics