Archive for July, 2006

X-Man Storm’s Wedding And Coming Of Age

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Ran to the comicstore Wednesday, as per geek ritual. (I won’t do a shameful plug for Liberty Books And Comics [formerly Closet of Comics] in College Park, Md., because that would be rude. :)) Had to pick up the last issue of the Storm miniseries and the current issue of Black Panther, No. 18. The former is […]

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So I read the small blurb in The Crisis magazine the other day that “Eyes On The Prize” will return to Public Tee Vee this fall. I was elated, until I read the (original?) Boston Globe story.
Excerpted out of order from Catherine Foster’s May 26, 2006 Globe account:
The clearance rights for the astounding amount of […]

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As a cartoon geek, a tangential student of African history and soon-to-be student of African mythology, I couldn’t be happier about this news :):
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LOS ANGELES - Vin Diesel will take on the Roman Empire in a new BET Networks cartoon series about military leader Hannibal.
Diesel will voice the noted general, and […]

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…..but when Saswat asked me to think about this, I couldn’t resist.
Hello. I’m Todd Steven Burroughs, your host. This blog will do what blogs do: give you a running thread of my public (sub)conscious. So that means lots of talk about Black media, superhero comicbooks, Black superheroes, superhero movies and superhero cartoons, Doctor Who (old […]

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Testing, One, Two

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

This is a test. For the next 60 seconds………..

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