In his latest book, creator Ho Che Anderson invites us into the dystopian world of Stone. In this near-future world, the societal divide between the haves and the have nots is a gulf that is widened after a co-opted election gives rise to the Merit system. This is a...
Late last night I got a text from a friend that just read “Chadwick Boseman…what the hell?!”, I was on the phone with my wife so I sent a text back asking what she was talking about, and my friend's response floored me, “Dead at 43. Colon cancer.” I immediately got on...
Photo credits George Carmona III For two days, New York City’s neighborhood of Harlem was ground zero to a creative cultural explosion as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture hosted its 8th Annual Black Comic Book Festival. Over these two days, comic...
I don’t know how I missed this at New York Comic-Con. Avengers: Damage Control is a fully immersive virtual reality that takes place after the events in Avengers: Endgame. This game lets you visit various Marvel locations like Shuri’s lab in Wakanda, Doctor Strange's...
By the time you’re reading this, the Kickstarter campaign for the next book in the Black Super Powered Universe (White) will have launched. If you’re not familiar with the original Kickstarter campaign for Black, the campaign was a monster of a success and from...
A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers. Edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams As spoiler free as possible A People’s Future is a literary crystal ball. Like the best Sci-fi, this is a well-crafted collection...
Photo credits: George Carmona III As part of Black History Month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music or BAM, the Black Comic Collective returned for its second annual Black Comix Expo, a showcase of black independent creators throughout the U.S. Like many other...