Since my dream would be to be WGA one day, I am saving this here.

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Edit: John Rogers post actually lead me to that thread:

Gonna have to look into that book.

Designs for the Neo-Ultimate Ororo and Killmonger.

The two are leaders of resistance movements across Africa, resisting the occupation forces of Khonshu and Ra (the Neo Ultiamte is Different). Ororo and Erik convince Wakanda to aid them.

The Ultimate Universe is back and better than ever thanks to Jonathan Hickman. Please just take over the MCU. They’re butchering/stealing from all your stories anyways.

See what's coming to the Ultimate Universe in July

See what's coming to the Ultimate Universe in July #comics #comicbooks

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Out this week: Vince Staples Presents Limbo Beach (Z2, $19.99):

Bryan Edward Hill, Chris Robinson and Buster Moody adapt a story by rapper Vince Staples into this graphic novel. It’s about an island theme park ruled by adolescents with unique abilities — kind of like Lord of the Flies with super powers. 

See what else is arriving in comic shops this week.

Ultimate Black Panther by Stefano Caselli.

Marvel Preview: Ultimate Black Panther #3

Read a preview of Ultimate Black Panther #3 from Marvel Comics, written by Bryan Hill with art by Stefano Caselli.

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Marvel Preview: Ultimate Black Panther #3

Read a preview of Ultimate Black Panther #3 from Marvel Comics, written by Bryan Hill with art by Stefano Caselli.

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Marvel Announces "Black Panther: Unconquered" One-Shot For November

Marvel Announces “Black Panther: Unconquered” One-Shot For November

The Press Release: This fall, all eyes will be on Wakanda! In addition to John Ridley and Germán Peralta’s current run on Black Panther and the upcoming Wakanda limited series, Marvel Comics will also publish a special one-shot in November, BLACK PANTHER: UNCONQUERED #1! Written by Bryan Edward Hill and drawn by Alberto Foche (Miles Morales: Spider-Man), BLACK PANTHER: UNCONQUERED will be an…

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Marvel Comics Announces “Black Panther: Unconquered”

Marvel Comics has announced a Black Panther one-shot that it claims is an “ideal entry point into the world of Black Panther mythology” for longtime fans and newcomers alike. Black Panther: Unconquered hails from writer Bryan Edward Hill and artist Alberto Foche Duarte.

Black Panther: Unconquered will “see the emergence of a threat deeply rooted in Wakanda history. In order to combat it, Black Panther will have to learn new secrets about Wakanda’s ancient past and unlock a new connection to the Panther god, Bast.” (Marvel Comics)

Black Panther: Unconquered #1, featuring a cover by Ken Lashley, goes on sale on November 9, 2022.

(Image via Marvel Comics - Ken Lashley’s Cover of Black Panther: Unconquered #1)

BRYAN EDWARD HILL BLADE

Fuck Yes.

From his description it will be him “Off The Chain”.

Drowning by Numbers (1988) Peter Greenaway

May 11th 2022

Drowning By Numbers (1988)

Drowning By Numbers by #PeterGreenaway starring #JoanPlowright, #JoelyRichardson and #JulietStevenson, "Humorous and daring",

PETER GREENAWAY Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB United Kingdom/Netherlands, 1988. Film Four International, Elsevier-Vendex Film Beheer, Allarts Production, Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep, Stimuleringsfonds Nederlandse Culturele Omroepproducties. Screenplay by Peter Greenaway. Cinematography by Sacha Vierny. Produced by Kees Kasander, Denis Wigman. Music by Michael Nyman. Production Design by…

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New Mutants. Spider-Man confronts Kingpin. Black Panther and Storm team up. See what's coming for Marvel's Ultimate comics!

New Mutants. Spider-Man confronts Kingpin. Black Panther and Storm team up. See what's coming for Marvel's Ultimate comics! #comics #comicbooks

Marvel Comics’ new Ultimate Comics line launched last year, and with each issue, fans have experienced the breathtaking mystery, unpredictable excitement, and bold storytelling that this new universe holds! Carefully crafted and controlled by the Maker as a world without super heroes, this familiar yet unusual world is now free from its shadowy origins. Iconic heroes are taking up their mantles,…

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Out this week: Black Panther Unconquered #1 (Marvel, $3.99):

A new Black Panther film hits theaters later this week, which seems like a good time for Marvel to release a “new reader friendly” one-shot featuring T’Challa by Bryan Edward Hill and Alberto Foche. 

See what other comics and graphic novels arrive in comic shops and on digital this week.

When I heard Gerry Duggan get asked on Cerebro, white boy to white boy, about the unfortunate optics of announcing and then immediately murdering the least white team of X-Men in years, I knew we'd be in for some shit. Man, did he deliver - after some evasive waffling about how ORCHIS is meant to be fascist, and how the story's point is to put the collective back of mutantkind even more against the wall than it was any of the last six times something like this has happened.

And, honestly? That's fair! This year's Hellfire Gala is ultimately the first part of a larger story, and history shows it's not going to last forever — hell, does anyone remember what the status quo was immediately before HoXPoX? At least this time most of the characters have implicitly just been sucked into Mother Righteous's magical Poké Ball, rather than outright killed; if anything, that's an improvement. I was fully content to just think "hey, not for me," and get back to ignoring everything beyond Immortal and Sabertooth, secure in the knowledge that certain topics are bound to be handled poorly when almost everyone in the room is white, when Duggan said three words that stopped me in my tracks:

"Keep the faith."

See, that struck me, because for a lot of us, this entire era of comics has been about nothing but faith. I've been reading X-Men, and engaging with fans since I was eight, and I've never seen the kind of collective buy-in from other marginalized readers that I have with Krakoa. X-Twitter (or, I suppose, X-X) has been Blacker, queerer, more disabled, less homogeneous than the fandom has ever been, all of us buying in to the implicit promise that this time things would be different. Sure, the line was headed by a presumably straight white guy, but there were other voices in the room for a change, and it really felt like they were going to be listened to. We thought we'd moved past clunky metaphor, past queerbaitimg and awkward racial gaffes. Storm and Kwannon were getting to do stuff, Arakko was full of amazing characters of color, Cyclops and Wolverine were probably fucking, we were hooked, and we turned out.

It's hard to overemphasize just how wild this was to see in real time. X-Men has always been allegory, sure, but it's traditionally allegory by and for the majority. For years, the readers who might really feel that resonance, those of us who have been hated and feared for the unforgivable crime of being who we are, we were afterthoughts, tolerated at best. We got scraps, "representation" from creators who seemed to be offended by the implication that we would ever want something other than being fetishized tokens. We were, as Hickman so succinctly put it, told that we were less when we knew we were more. And then, out of nowhere, Krakoa made us inescapable.

The two biggest X-Men podcasts, X-Plain the X-Men and Cerebro, are hosted by queer people. X of Words has been rocking the Black, queer experience like no one's business, Mutant Watch has been a joy to listen to and to be on. Not just podcasts, either, in everything from criticism to fanart to cosplay, voices have been elevated that were previously silent. I mean, hell, I've gotten paid to talk about comics, that shit never would have happened four years ago.

All of that was based on faith.

Faith that we were being celebrated, for once, instead of just used. Faith that for whatever growing pains there might be, things were going to be better.

And let's not fuck around here, there were growing pains. In the first year alone we dealt with everything from blatant whitewashing, to queerbaiting — any Sunspot fan can go into detail there, assuming you can get one of us to stop crying for long enough. While that was going on, we watched Bryan Edward Hill (the only non-white writer in that initial wave) put out a book that was, let's face it, at worst aggressively mid, only to be excoriated by certain portions of the fandom, and dropped by the office, while significantly worse books managed to hold fast — er, hold on. Not to say that Fallen Angels was without sin, mind you, the book was packed with enough orientalism to make Chris Claremont blush. But, at the same time, Wolverine's first year ended with him doing what he does best: trying so hard to be Japanese that I had to check to make sure he wasn't Marvel's editor in chief.

Through all of that, we kept the faith.

Things didn't really get much better, of course. Arakko was a fascinating concept, and felt like it damn near doubled Marvel's characters of color. And yeah, the ending of X-Factor was one of the most poorly handled racist messes I've seen this side of… well, any given day on Twitter. Sure, the whitewashing has never stopped, to the point where everything from X-Corp to this week's Hellfire Gala has had to be hastily edited between previews and release. Maybe we keep dealing with stuff like butchered AAVE, even more queerbaiting, Kate Pryde's funeral, the genocide of almost all of those Arraki characters, and whatever the hell was going on with Lost in Way of X. Maybe there's a very real argument to be made that there's something insidious about three straight years of voting to determine if characters like Monet (who, by the by, has been retooled from "basically Superman" to "Black woman with anger powers") deserve the honor of being written by a white man who's stayed writing with his foot in his mouth. I mean, hey! All my white friends in the scene say he's nice, just like Williams, or Howard, or any number of other crusty crackers who are still proud of tripping over the bar Claremont left on the floor in the 80's!

And dammit, we kept the faith!

Even before the issue dropped, the Fall of X has had a lot of us wary. After all, all of the promotion leading up to it has been white guys saying the minority allegory has had it too good for too long, which, whatever, press copy. We all know they've gotta sell books — they, in this case, being the almost exclusively white, almost exclusively male creative teams attached to all of the books in the line. Sure, as Duggan said, the 616 has a fascism problem, but it’s hard not to see this as a deliberate step back from the almost double digit number of non-white creators these past few years — almost as if Marvel has realized they can make space for a fourth ongoing by their favorite white boy if they just throw out a Voices special every couple of months as a containment zone for the darkies. And, hey, considering how good ol’ C.B. got his foot in the door, I can’t even fake surprise. At this point, it’s a minor miracle any time a person of color is tapped for anything that’s expected to last beyond one issue.

In this issue, as a reward for keeping the faith, we got to see something astounding, something that'd bring a tear to the eye of even the most cynical reader — a team that was only half white. My god. And sure, their brutal murder in favor of a team with Kate "Hard-Arrr" Pryde and the Kingpin(????) was only a pit-stop between the resurrection of the suddenly ashy Ms. Marvel and Lourdes Chantel being killed off for the sake of a white woman's angst yet afuckinggain, but ain't that the dream that Malcolm Ten or whoever died for?

The Krakoan era, ultimately, has been the same as every other. Empty promises by white men who show us time and again that there was never any point in expecting anything better. Any meaning we've found, everything of worth, has been what we've made for ourselves.

We've spent years keeping the faith, Gerry, while you and yours have continued to let us down. What the hell do we have to show for it?