Swamp Thing meets The Giving Tree? Yes, please.
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At times the article a little too self-congratulatory, but it is still an enlightening look into the history of African and African-American characters in what is essentially one of the most American art-forms, comics. I would love to see a little more theory introduced, or at the least, a discussion of how these characters either complied with or challenged the prevailing thoughts of the time surrounding the Black Aesthetic and/or Black Arts Movement, but I'll take what I can get until someone either writes that article or until I have some spare time to do it...
Personally, I think that the Sgt. Peppers homage would have been better with the Justice League, but the Avengers works as well...
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Read the entire Marvel comic based on Dune
In the 1980s, Marvel put out a comic book from Ralph Macchio and Bill Sienkiewicz, based on the David Lynch film version of Dune. Now blogger Joe Bloke has scanned and posted it, so you can experience the awesomeness.
Say what you will about Lynch's version of Dune (which Frank Herbert loved, by the way) - some of these panels are amazing. This sandworm is pure artistic madness - an early version of the blotchy, wrathful style you can still see in books by people like Ben Templesmith. I also love some of the panels that show Dune's wide-open spaces. They're sparse and beautiful.
Worth a read! Check it out on Grantbridge Street And Other Misadventures.
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