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10/02/2025

The Red Skull has announced that he will be using American cities as training grounds for Hydra start ing with Chicago.

09/30/2025

Thank you Dr. David A. Washington for coming to Greenville to speak about your awesome creation. You were truly inspiring. I am glad that I got to talk to you for a short while and truly excited about reading this book. Having you sign it was icing on the cake!

09/27/2025

Dr. David Washington, a U.S. Army veteran, has garnered acclaim as an award-winning author and Amazon bestseller for his book Black Defender is coming to Pitt Community College. His literary work has been recognized by the International Book Awards, New York Book Festival, Los Angeles Book Festival, and San Francisco Book Festival. Dr. Washington's educational background comprises an MBA from Webster University, an MSA from Central Michigan University, and a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. Additionally, he is a licensed attorney, having earned his law degree from California Southern University. Dr. Washington's dissatisfaction with the lack of diversity in the superhero genre prompted him to write a graphic novel, seeking to provide his children with stories featuring diverse characters and experiences.

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09/26/2025

09/26/2025

has given people some of the greatest superheroes ever, and on this day 36 years ago, they introduced us to what was touted as the next generation of Marvel superstars — the New Warriors.

The Mighty Thor #411, published on this day in 1989, had the God of Thunder meet this next generation of teen heroes — Night Thrasher, Marvel Boy, Firestar, Nova, Namorita, and Speedball (only Night Thrasher was appearing for the first time; the rest had premiered over the years, with Nova having his own series starting in 1976) — as he battled the Juggernaut in the “Acts of Vengeance” crossover. The crossover saw the villains change it up on the heroes by attacking heroes they didn’t usually fight (although Thor had occasionally fought Juggernaut; “Acts of Vengeance” is best known for the Mandarin and the Hand body switching Psylocke, and Magneto and Red Skull having a chat about World War II that went exactly how you imagine it would).

The New Warriors were the the first time that Marvel brought together a non-mutant teen superteam, and they have a rich legacy… if you know where to look for it. Tap the link in comments for more details!

09/26/2025

Trying to locate this "official" wedding invitation. Google Lens is no help.

09/23/2025

When it comes to representation for black people in the United States, there is no better superhero hands down than Black Lightning. I love T'Challa and everything he represents but in mainstream comics nobody is better than Dr. Jefferson Pierce.,Ed I cannot get as deep as I want on a FB page but this needs to be said.

1) Successful Father
2) College Educated
3) Successful career as a teacher
4) Secretary of Education
5) He married his Lois Lane
6) Successful team leader
7) The TV show gave him is own city instead of sharing it with Superman
8) Did not let a rough upbringing hinder his success
9) He had his own version of Alfred
10) Has his own supervillian
11) Has powers but with limitations
12) He has the ability to root his stories in the streets and the fantasy environment.
13) Had a successful TV show that ran 4 seasons.

Due to copyright issues Black Lightning was often duplicated from Hanna Barbera to the Static Shock cartoon. He has inspired so many kids like me because I saw myself more in him than i did T'Challa. We really need an African-American male writer to really flesh out this character even more.

09/23/2025

Marvel Studios still on the BS with the Black Panther. Just stop it and . We want to T'Challa to be front and center. The one story with T'Challa is narrated by Spider-Man. Why Marvel why do you hate T'Challa?

09/22/2025

It finally arrived after several weeks in the mail. My only regret that the book is in black and white instead of the original color.

08/03/2025

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎 Chris Cooper, Tony Rawls

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08/03/2025

We picked this book up today from the table of the BrothersBoyd @ Greenville Unplugged. They were the only table exclusively selling comics. We picked up this book because of a story we heard on NPR about the 1st Asian American superhero the Green Turtle. We fascinated about how the author Gene Leun Yang wrote this book in response to a forgotten Chinese superhero written in the 40s to right a wrong on how the character was portrayed and what he could have meant to the Asian American community. This is why public radio matters they tell the stories other people ignore. Nobody cared about this story. Its not flashy and to some people DEI. Losing the CPB is how we miss stories like this one. Its wrong and it's going hurt rural communities who going to lose their public broadcasting stations. I encourage you to support your local PBS and NPR.