Press Release Burbank, California, 1/21/2022 – Wingless Comics celebrates our first annual Wingless+ Day. Described as a look behind the scenes of Wingless Comics as well as a...
Black Sci-Fi Convention Postponed
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Check Out the New ‘Raising Dion’ Trailer
Check out a new trailer for season 2 of Raising Dion. The new season will premiere on February 1, 2022, and will once again follow the superpowered adventures of Dion. From...
Whoopi Goldberg Returns to ‘Star Trek’ in new ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Trailer
Guinan is back. In the most recent trailer for Star Trek: Picard, the award-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg returns to the world of Star Trek. The series premiers on March 3rd, on the Paramount + streaming service.Check out the trailer below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyuddrlFajs
Access Guide To The Black Comic Book Community Returns with an even bigger year of Creators and Black-Owned Businesses
Press Release The Access Guide To The Black Comic Book Community has more pages, more comics, stores and includes a new chapter for podcasts! In February 2021, Anyone Comics...
Raising Dion/ SEASON 2 Preview Images
Check out a few new preview images for season 2 of Raising Dion. The new season will premiere on February 1, 2022, and will once again follow the superpowered adventures of Dion....
Reviews
Review/ Batman by John Ridley: The Deluxe Edition
The phrase “needs no introduction” was crafted for men like John Ridley. He is a writer, director, and producer across various media including movies, television, cartoons, and comic books. He famously won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for 12 Years a...
Review/ Can You Sign My Tentacle?
Some of the best speculative poetry often reexamines traditional aspects of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror through a modern lens. Linda D. Addison's How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend? has...
Review – Fierce #2
Writer: Gabriel Smith Penciler/Creator: Raymond Sanders Inker: Clement Romaine Colorist: Sigmund Torre Letterer: Jessica JimersonPublisher: Fantasy Art ComicsRating: PG Creator Raymond Sanders’...
Review/ Pax Samson Vol. 1: The Cookout
If one could capture the essence of the black experience, many persons would find a succinct link between the value of friendship and the value of family. Two people may not be related but at the...
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How Tough is Blade?
The Dhampir. The Daywalker. The one thing worse out tonight than vampires. The one and only Eric Brooks, aka Blade, is probably the coolest vampire to appear in media. And no, despite the fact he can happily prance around at twilight, he doesn’t actually sparkle. But...
The Many Shades of Gatekeeping: How “Emerging Author” Hurts More Than Helps
By L.M. Davis I’ve been in the fantasy game for more than a decade. I can remember a time when the attention to and concern with the lack of diversity in the genre wasn’t even a twinkle in...
The Changing Tide – The Importance of Legacy Characters
DC Comics has recently announced that Jackson Hyde (aka Kaldur’ahm) will graduate from his status as the current “Aqualad” to that of fully fledged “Aquaman” in the aptly titled upcoming six-issue...
The Future Looks Black – DC Comics’ 10 year Stride Towards New Black Superheroes
“Inclusivity” and “diversity” have been buzz words that have dominated the discourse in all forms of media for the last decade at least. To that end, for the past few years, the Big Two have been...
Gaming
Top Ten Most Popular Playable Black Characters in Video Games, Part 1
With the recent release of Deathloop, a AAA first-person shooter that – as of writing – sits at an 89 on Metacritic, it’s fair to say that this next generation videogame by Bethesda is a success. I was more invested than most gamers, mainly because it starred not one,...
Check out ‘Marvel’s Avengers – Road to Wakanda: Children of T’Chaka’
In the lead-up to the release of Marvel's Avengers-Black Panther: War for Wakanda expansion, Marvel, Square Enix, and Crystal Dynamics are giving us some awesome Black Panther world content. From...
Review/ Aurion Kajuta Gems Fighter
Five years after the release of the African action RPG platformer Aurion: Legacy of The Kori-Odan, Cameroonian game developers Kiro'o Games have released the mobile game Aurion Kajuta Gem Fighter in...
Top 10 ‘Mass Effect’ Companions
As Mass Effect: Legendary Edition reinserts the epic space opera trilogy back into the limelight, I figured what better way to kick off my gaming binge with a bit of controversy. Here are my top ten...
technology (S.T.E.M.)
Black-Owned Tech Company Exstreamity Selected as a Venture Atlanta 2021 Showcase Company
Press Release ATLANTA – September 22, 2021 – Exstreamity announced today that it has been chosen out of a record-breaking 400-plus applicant pool as one of the top technology...
NASA Selects 2 Missions to Study ‘Lost Habitable’ World of Venus
Press Release NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor. Part of NASA’s Discovery Program, the missions aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like...
Howard University, Morehouse College, Winston-Salem State University, and Coppin State University launch an NSF HBCU-UP Broadening Participation Research Center
Press Release WASHINGTON - The National Science Foundation awarded $2.4 million to support the Broadening Participation Research Center for the Development of...
On The Blerdar: Immense Gaming Virtual Launch Party Event
Love video gaming and STEM? Check out the below event. From the website: "We're geared up for gaming with the proceeds benefiting a great cause. Join us from 5-7 p.m. Friday to learn about esports...
On The Blerdar
On the Blerdar-7th Annual Khem Fest
Press Release NEWARK, NJ The annual Khem Fest is back for its seventh year on Friday & Saturday, September 18-19, 2021 at Livingston Mall in Livingston, NJ from 12 pm - 6 pm. Preceding Khem Fest will be the third annual Khem Animation Film Festival (KAFF)...
On the Blerdar- Check out ‘Her: Gods and Monsters’
For lovers of fantasy and high adventure, check out the latest installment in Malachi Bailey's Her series, Her: Gods and Monsters. In our continuing goal of spreading the word about prose works that...
On The Blerdar: 5th Blerd City Virtual Con
Check out the 5th Blerd City Virtual Con which will take place from July 9-11. From the event's website, "BLERD CITY CON’s 2021 Virtual Con is a Black convergence taking place Friday through Sunday,...
Virtuous Con Returns with Kickstarter Sponsored Juneteenth Event Announces Special Guests Wilson Cruz, Marc Bernardin, L. L. McKinney and more!
Press Release [WASHINGTON, D.C.] – May 7, 2021, Virtuous Con, the online sci-fi, comic book, and fantasy conventionthat in February produced the successful Virtuous Con: Black History Month...
