Black Panther Archives

Black Panther’s Ruth Carter Wins Oscar for Best Costume Design

February 24, 2019

Black Panther's costume designer Ruth Carter took home the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. Carter beat out Sandy Powell, who was nominated for both The Favourite and Mary Poppins Returns. She also bea...

EBay Launches Black Panther Destination After Seeing Comic Sales Soar 30%

John F. Trent

February 24, 2019

Industry News

After the success of Black Panther and other comic book film properties that has spurred eBay's comic sales to increase by 30%, eBay has launched a Black Panther destination. This new Black Panther destinati...

X-Men Spotlight: Storm

Phillip Pratt

February 11, 2019

Comic Books

Who is Storm? Storm, Ororo Munroe, was born in New York, to an American father and a Kenyan mother. After their deaths, Storm spent her formative years as an orphan on the streets of Cairo. Picking pockets...

American Psycho Author Bret Easton Ellis Calls Out Black Panther’s Oscar Nomination as Being a “Piece of Representation”

Jorge Arenas

February 4, 2019

Comic Culture

American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis called out Black Panther's Oscar nomination for Best Picture describing it as a "huge fatuous inclusivity and diversity push." Ellis spoke on his podcast "Low Key" on...

What Black Panther and Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’s Oscar Nominations Mean for Comic Book Fandom!

Donald Edmonds

January 31, 2019

Comic Culture

We have to talk about Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. Mostly because it's nominated for Animated Feature Film by The Academy this year. It's possible it could beat out Disney/Pixar, who in times prior has...

Disney and Marvel Studios Announce Free Screenings of Black Panther for Black History Month

John F. Trent

January 28, 2019

Movies

Disney and Marvel Studios announced that Black Panther will return to 250 select AMC Theaters to celebrate Black History Month from February 1-7. Not only will the film return to theaters, but Disney ensures ti...

Tom Taylor’s X-Men: Red Was Not ‘The Best X-Men Story in Years’

Phillip Pratt

January 24, 2019

Comic Books

Writer, Tom Taylor, allowed his personal agendas to get in the way of storytelling. At the time of the announcement of X-Men: Red there were not ‘a lot’ of X-Men books. Not in comparison to their hay day, and ...

In Remembrance: Top 10 Stan Lee Character Creations!

Donald Edmonds

November 29, 2018

Comic Books

It has been a long and sad time for comic book fans for a few weeks, after we learned that Stan Lee died. He was 95, and to say that he has had a certain amount of influence on the cultural landscape we live in...

What If Marvel Really Banished the X-Men to Outer Space?

Phillip Pratt

November 26, 2018

Comic Books

There were indeed better options than Hell, people. Following the end of 2015’s Secret Wars there was a rumor that Marvel had plans of jettisoning the X-Men into outer space in favor of the Inhumans. They, the...

The Perils of Diversity Casting in Hollywood

DC Green

August 29, 2018

Movies, Television

In a creative medium, should diversity come at the cost of everything else? Certain factions of nerd fandom sure seem to think so. For those of us engaged in these hobbies, it feels like everywhere we turn, the...

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