Hey, super-fans! Get ready for a power-packed session where I, Amir aka the 6lackPodcaster, unpack the latest superhero sagas with a special focus on the DCU's "Superman Legacy" and the ever-expanding MCU. Feel the excitement build as we break down Rachel Brosnahan's debut as Lois Lane and the buzz around the new era of the DC Extended Universe. Warm up your superhero senses because we're also going to explore Vincent D'Onofrio's return as Kingpin in the Marvel series "Echo" and "Daredevil," and what that spells for the future of our beloved vigilante in Hell's Kitchen.
But wait, there's more! I've got a special segment on Jason Aaron's bold move to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the controversy stirring around CBR's pitch for Kasper Cole as the new Black Panther. So tune in, join the discussion, and let's keep the comic book fires burning bright. Don't miss a beat of the action on my Instagram @theblackpodcaster for all the hot updates. See you in the audio realm, where the mightiest tales unfold!
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Hey, super-fans! Get ready for a power-packed session where I, Amir aka the 6lackPodcaster, unpack the latest superhero sagas with a special focus on the DCU's "Superman Legacy" and the ever-expanding MCU. Feel the excitement build as we break down Rachel Brosnahan's debut as Lois Lane and the buzz around the new era of the DC Extended Universe. Warm up your superhero senses because we're also going to explore Vincent D'Onofrio's return as Kingpin in the Marvel series "Echo" and "Daredevil," and what that spells for the future of our beloved vigilante in Hell's Kitchen.
But wait, there's more! I've got a special segment on Jason Aaron's bold move to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the controversy stirring around CBR's pitch for Kasper Cole as the new Black Panther. So tune in, join the discussion, and let's keep the comic book fires burning bright. Don't miss a beat of the action on my Instagram @theblackpodcaster for all the hot updates. See you in the audio realm, where the mightiest tales unfold!
check out the patreon https://www.buzzsprout.com/1889705/supporters/new
thanks for tuning in follow @the6lackpodcaster on IG
New Sponsor interest email amirwanzer36@gmail.com
What's going on? Good people, welcome back to the one in 100 podcast. I'm your host, amir, aka the Black Podcaster. Listen, man. First off, thank you for joining me on this wonderful Friday. I hope you guys are doing well. I hope everybody's living and prospering and making money and all that good stuff and staying safe. I know that it is freezing cold here in Texas. Shout out to all the people that live in North Texas where it was snowing and all kinds of crazy stuff. Shout out to all my family in Jersey dealing with that crazy weather over there with the snow and rain and just craziness. Man, I hope you guys are all being safe right now.
Speaker 1:I think by the time you guys hear this, hopefully everything is nice and warm in Texas again. Man, listen man, I ain't going to hold you. Man, I've been in Texas going on three years, I think, yeah, it's going on three, man, I'm terrible with time now, but going on three years and I'm going to be honest with you. Man, this warm weather has changed your boy. I used to be able to go outside in a hoodie and some shorts and be okay, man, listen man, I had on a jacket, a hoodie, some thermal underwear like this. This cold was biting your boy. I don't know if it's because I've been here a long or I'm just getting older, I don't know, but this stuff has changed me. Well, I went outside the other day and I opened the garage and just was like this ain't it, this ain't it. Now, let me go in here and get right. But so, yeah, this weather has really been crazy. I can't wait till we get back to the nice warm weather. I mean, we was just barbecuing and sitting outside and chilling, like last week, and then all of a sudden, man like Jesus, just turned off the heat. So, but yeah, we back at it again, man, for another episode of the 1 in 100 podcast. If you're new to the podcast, please, please, hit that subscribe button. It don't cost you nothing. You know to hit that subscribe button and tune in and all that good stuff. And if you have been around forever, do me a favor rate the show, leave a comment. All that good stuff, man.
Speaker 1:Like we, like I said when we, when I first came back, I will be at this alone for a little while until I get my situation straight. I am recording in the garage right now. Your boy, just be all over the place recording, but I'm in the garage right now. The sound quality is not that great, but thank God for this microphone that my pops got me. It makes it all right. It makes it all right.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, I'm going to be trying to do something in here for the time being and I got some plans. But anyway, keep a lookout for us, man. We will definitely be hitting YouTube in the next, hopefully in the next couple of weeks, possibly doing live. I don't know, maybe just doing some recorded stuff and just bringing you guys some shorts and things like that of what you know what the episode is, you know what I'm talking about on the episode and everything like that. So just keep it locked with us. So hit that subscribe button, share with your friends and all that good stuff, man.
Speaker 1:So I'm recording on a Wednesday, as you guys always know, and not a lot of news came out so far during this week. You know, if more stuff comes out throughout the rest of the week, I might give you guys a bonus episode, maybe on Sunday. Again, we'll see. That's the cool part, I guess, about recording by myself right now. I can kind of get on the microphone at any time and get it out to you guys quickly. I don't have to worry about, really, you know, editing any other, any other voices or anything like that, but hopefully you guys are, you know, liking what you're hearing so far from the 1 in 100 podcast and myself you know.
Speaker 1:But let's get into it. Man, the first bit of news I got here is some stuff coming out of the DCU, the James Gunn universe. Rachel Brosnahan I think that's how you say her last name she's going to be playing what's the girl's name from Superman, god, lois Lane. There we go. She's going to be playing Lois Lane in Superman Legacy movie that's supposedly going to be dropping in 2025. She has some interesting things to say about what's taking place in the new Superman Legacy movie, and what she said was that Superman, like the movie, is going to have a little bit of, like, a sense of humor in this movie, and the full quote of what she said was I really enjoy collaboration, the collaboration with James Gunn. So far. Every single person involved in this production is such a perfect nerd for Superman. We all grew up watching the movies, some of us grew up reading the comics, and so I feel like it's being made with so much love and I think this Superman will have a sense of humor without getting into too many spoilers. That's what she said and I think this interview came from like entertainment tonight. So I guess my feeling on this is that's awesome. I think I like that.
Speaker 1:You guys know I'm not the biggest fan of the Snyderverse stuff and the thing with the Snyderverse stuff was everything was so dark, even the way the films were shot. It was just dark. The man of Steel movie is probably everyone's favorite movie out of the DCEU. I think maybe after that would be like Shazam and Aquaman. Those are probably the top three movies and the first Wonder Woman. But everything just seemed very melodic. You know it wasn't really sunny in Metropolis.
Speaker 1:So I think the thing with James Gunn is everyone being somewhat of a fan of his Guardians of the Galaxy is he has his way of knowing how to combine the serious tones and the lighthearted tones and a superhero movie and making it really cool. That's something that I've always kind of picked up from the Superman comics that I have read in the past. It always does have that lighthearted part of it, especially when he is Clark Kent. He's kind of like a cheesy guy, wholesome dude, so he's not always so dark and gritty, like he does fight some villains. That can be dark and gritty and things like that, but that's not always the tone of a Superman story. So I like the fact that he's going to be bringing some change in this, even with Superman being a younger version and him coming into a universe where superheroes do exist in this universe and not having Superman being the only one is pretty cool.
Speaker 1:Like, I know that there is supposedly going to be Green Lantern. Guy Gardner is supposed to be in this movie. I believe Mr Terrific is supposed to be in this as well, so there's supposed to be a bunch of other heroes popping up. But James Gunn has always said that it's not going to be a distraction from the main storyline. He just wants to show us that those characters do exist in this universe. I mean even with his creature commandos. I know that those characters eventually will pop up in the live action part of the DCU the people that are actually voicing those characters. So he'll probably introduce a lot of characters in that cartoon or that animated series, which I think is a pretty dope way to go about it. So we'll see how that works.
Speaker 1:But the other thing that I like about this is I feel like it's possibly going to take us back to those original Superman movies. I mean, to me they're classics. I've always enjoyed them when I watched them. They might not be the greatest movies ever, but they have this cool feel about them. They have this lighthearted feel about them. Superman was a cool character back then in 1978. I mean that movie came out way before I was born. But when I've watched those movies I've always enjoyed them and watched them all the way to the end. And then the third one, you know, with Richard Pryor and stuff like that. So I really am looking forward to this movie, which is crazy because I've never been a big Superman fan like that.
Speaker 1:But James Gunn man, he just he has that magic when it comes to doing the superhero thing. Like he. You can just know he has this love for these characters and it always shows in his movies. So I can't wait to see what he does with this. And this is just a really cool thing to hear that there's a lot of love going into this movie and that it's going to have some, you know, a little bit of humor. Not too much, but just a little bit, a little bit of sprinkle of humor in there. So yeah, moving on to the next topic, vincent DeNarfrio. If you don't know the name, you also know him as Kingpin Wilson Fisk. If you are a daredevil lover, you know he's, he's, you know Kingpin.
Speaker 1:In that series he had some things to say as far as what's you know been going on with the daredevil move or series that's going to be coming out on Disney Plus. Now he was just in Echo, which was a series that I kind of talked about on Sunday on the bonus. It was all right. You know it wasn't. It wasn't all that great to me. I mean, I know a lot of people enjoyed it. It has the mixed reviews, of course, on rotten tomatoes and IMDB and all that stuff, but it wasn't. It wasn't all that to your boy, you know. You know there was a lot of times where I had to rewind it and go back and you know it just didn't keep my attention. But there was something that took place at the end of the series Spoiler, spoiler, spoiler, spoiler. He they're kind of teasing that he could possibly be running for mayor of Hell's Kitchen in the Daredevil series.
Speaker 1:Now, if you are unfamiliar with Kingpin becoming the mayor of New York go read the Chipsodarsky volume one run of his Daredevil stuff, because Kingpin did become the mayor and it was this whole like thing with Daredevil or Matt Murdock going at him and heroes not being able to do what they do. It was a really good story. I'm not going front like it was a really cool story and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I know that there is a volume two. I did not pick that up because I felt like I had enough of the Daredevil stuff with Chipsodarsky. In that first volume I feel like he did everything that he needed to do. I was kind of shocked that they even, you know, did another volume with him. But I mean, I've heard good things about it but I've also heard kind of boring things about it. So maybe eventually if I could find that trade in in Ali's, you know, on the low low, then I'll pick it up. But it's not something I'm pressed to get.
Speaker 1:But he did mention in this quick interview that he did well. First off let me just this was the funny part where he was talking about the whole possibly going into politics thing. He said I don't think he's changed because something happened with him and echo at the end. But he said I don't think he's changed, I think he's enlightened. And then he says I haven't seen a lot of the episodes of echo, which is hilarious because you're in it and you didn't watch the whole thing. So in my mind, after everything goes down with Maya, he gets on the plane and by the end of that flight he decides if he wants to be all powerful. This is what I'm going to do. That's the most I can tell you. So he kind of didn't want to spoil too much of the ending for it, but I already told you guys. But it's kind of funny that he was just like I didn't really watch too much of it because I mean, I think deep down he knew it wasn't, it wasn't all that great.
Speaker 1:But then he gets into this whole what's what's going on with Daredevil? And just a little background on what's been going on with Daredevil born again in 2013. I mean I have 2013 and 2023. Back in September, marvel kind of hit the reset button and decided to basically start fresh with the Daredevil born again because they, you know, they did the testing and it didn't test well. It kind of failed.
Speaker 1:And I know Kevin foggy kind of got back in the chair of running things for the MCU because he was kind of he didn't have all the power that he had in the beginning, like with the first three phases of the MCU. So they kind of put him back in the driver's seat to try and get these things, get this stuff back in order, and they decided that it was time to restart all of this, which was to a lot of people. We were all surprised. You know that this was that this happened, because they were so far along before the the strikes, with the writers and the actors and everything but sets kept getting shut down and interrupted by the writers that were on strike that they kind of had to put it on hold. But they were really far along and decided to shut it down and then start over.
Speaker 1:So the thing is, since that all took place I talked about this last week Marvel has decided that they were going to make the Netflix stuff canon. Now this is now a part of the sacred timeline, which is cool, you know. I mean a lot of fans kind of already felt that it should be canon. You know there was always mentions of the event that took place in New York and Avengers, the first Avengers movie. They always kind of mentioned that, especially in Daredevil season one and Luke Cage season one, that this stuff had taken place. So they've decided that it is now canon and there's no questions about it. No more Like that is canon, we have all these characters coming through. We are now going to make our lives a lot easier and we won't have to explain so much stuff on why this is a different Daredevil or why this is a different Kingpin, even though this Kingpin got shot in the head and still lived and he's blinking and using his eye like it's nothing's ever happened to him, but you know, whatever. So that's really good that they did that.
Speaker 1:So what Vincent D'Onofrio actually came out and said. He said, during our restart of all the creatives on Daredevil born again, all the creatives got together and said, look, this is how we've got to do it now. So we are for sure, only speaking about it in terms of being directly connected to the original Daredevil, and that's a great thing. It brings a lot of the cool stories and all the collateral stories that happen in those original three seasons. So that's good.
Speaker 1:The creators that are behind this now, that are writing this script and getting this all together, and now like, look, we have to look to this stuff that has been put out that fans really loved and we have to lean on that and we have to bring that stuff forward. That way now we have a strong foundation and we can build upon this until our next chapter in the Daredevil series. So that's a good thing for them. But is that going to be a good thing If this series fails? Because right now, disney Plus to me, to me does not really have a great track record with their series. So Daredevil born again has a lot riding on it, a lot, and if they fail, this is going to make a lot of fans angry and it's going to put a bitter taste in their mouth. Because we had three really, really strong seasons of Daredevil and now you come out and you flop with this fourth season and now you're saying it's all connected, they're going to. Fans wanted it to be connected, but then they're probably going to be like why did you connect this if you're going to give us that BS? So they got a lot of pressure on them and like they really got to come out strong and really kill this.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure if it's staying at 18 episodes or not. I hope it does, because I'm tired of the you know, the six episode mini series and you know not them not being able to really flush out everything that they're trying to do in a good manner. You know, like you know, make it 18 episodes, that way you can tell your full story. It can actually feel like a series and not just a movie that you had to do a lot of editing to and you just decided to chop them up into little series or little episodes, like let's do this thing the right way. So hopefully they pull this off.
Speaker 1:Vincent DeNoffreau seems like he has a lot of confidence in what they're doing. As we know, like I discussed on Sunday, they brought back the two people that play Foggy Nelson and Karen Page Bernathal is also going to be in this as the Punisher, and I think he made a comment saying that he doesn't feel like the Punisher has grown or changed much from the character that he you know from how he was in the original Daredevil series or Netflix, which I think is a cool thing. I like the Punisher being that guy. That is the exact opposite of Daredevil. Like he said, when I put him down, they stay down. So I really hope they keep him that way because it just adds something, you know, to the dynamic and to like somebody that Daredevil has to deal with.
Speaker 1:My only question is who is going to be like that henchman for the kingpin? Like who's it going to be this time? Like we don't? We don't know who it could be, but I'm really looking forward to finding out that when, when season four basically hits. So Daredevil born again. So yeah, that's some some really cool stuff going on there with the born again series. We know that they're really trying to get it together and I really like how Marvel has now.
Speaker 1:In the best way I can put it is they've, they've shut the fuck up. They have shut the fuck up. They're not, they're not like James Gunn. Right now, james Gunn is on a different track. He's trying to make sure that people are going to be in those theaters and at those streaming services when creature commandos drop or or when Superman Legacy comes out, because he has a lot riding on this. So his approach is very different from what the MCU is doing. But I think at this point the MCU has been the front runners just for a very, very long time and then being quiet and just kind of letting the actors say just a little bit, not giving a lot of weight, just saying a little bit. Hopefully they keep that same mind mindset when the trailer started to drop.
Speaker 1:Don't give us any spoilers in the trailer. Just give us a simple trailer. Get us excited to come to the see the movies or to watch the shows, like you used to do. In phases one, two and three. You gave us just enough. Gave give us just enough of what's going on and why we need to come see it. That's it. You don't need to spoil it for us before we even go see the shit. So I like that. All those execs are now be are quiet. They're not. They're not talking too much. Kevin foggy is not coming out saying, oh, this is going to answer all the questions in the MCU, and we get there and not a damn question is answered. We just have more questions. So yeah, we'll see how that goes, but that that's pretty much it for the breakdown. Hopefully, you know we we get some good stuff coming out with Daredevil and Superman Legacy when those movies drop and when the series drops.
Speaker 1:But let's kick it over to the reads of the week. All right, I got some stuff in Reeds of the Week I want to talk about one in particular is IDW will now be working with an Eisner award winning writer that used to be exclusive to Marvel, but now he kind of broke ways with them and now he's set the waters and work with other companies. And then I also talk about the one of the dopest crossover stories that I've read in a long time. I'm really enjoying this universe and I'm loving how they have built this universe. So we'll get into that. After this break, go get yourself something to drink or yourself something to snack on, and we'll be back with the reads of the week. We are back.
Speaker 1:You're listening to the one in 100 podcast. I am your host, amir, aka the black podcaster, and this is reads of the week. Now I'm gonna keep it real with you. I'm gonna keep it funky with you. I you're listening to your boy. I'm always gonna be 100 with you. I'm gonna keep it 100 with you all at all times. I only read one book.
Speaker 1:I did not get to go to the shop last week to pick up all the books that I have. There's not a lot, but I didn't get a chance to get there and get my books and I'm beyond what you, man, life be life, and sometimes, man, it be life, and sometimes, boy, when you get older, you have to prioritize things, man, you know what I'm saying. Like, you have to make sure you have things in order and you have to handle the things that are most important. Now, that doesn't mean that you give up on your hobby, you know. That doesn't mean that you don't go to the comic book shop and pick up your books or anything like that. It just means that your boy had bills to pay. Your boy had bills to pay, man, and I wasn't able to get to the shop. I got some really good books at the shop that I want to pick up, but that's probably gonna have to wait until next weekend. But I was able to get to my other shop and pick up one book, which I will talk about in a few.
Speaker 1:But I want to get into this bit of news that I discovered about Jason Aaron. So I'm not sure anybody else knows this, but Jason Aaron is no longer exclusive to Marvel. He was working with Marvel for a long time. He's done a lot of crossover stories. He was one of the architects of the Thor stories. He was the guy that introduced Gord the God Butcher, which was supposedly the main villain in Love and Thunder. But they kind of pusified him a little bit and he wasn't really butchering the gods like he was supposed to. It was just bad. So I feel like that's probably what made him give up on Marvel when they trashed his character, who was supposed to be this like almighty beast and it just didn't happen. But yeah, he's no longer exclusive to Marvel, which that's how it should be. You should be able to go get your Trebotta anywhere. So he's been writing. I think he's writing a Batman story right now which is like an El's World type of story, and probably a couple of other things I'm not really familiar with, but this one is kind of big and I'm not going to lie man, I think I found my way in to this universe.
Speaker 1:According to comicbookcom, jason Aaron is going to be taking over the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles storyline and so, basically, idw. They announced that they were going to be renewing their agreement with Paramount, which is the people that own Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and they're going to be pushing forward after their 40th, after the Turtles 40th anniversary. So they've been doing this, they've been writing, they've been owning the content for the comic books since like 2011, and they've written about 150 comic books. I think the 150th issue of Ninja Turtles is going to be coming out soon and I think the previous writer is Sophie Campbell. Yeah, she's going to be doing issue her 50th issue on the story, but after that it's going to be doing a relaunch Not a reboot, but a relaunch and Jason Aaron is going to be the one that's going to be writing this story. They're putting out like a 10 page prelude story that's going to be coming out in June called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Alpha, issue one. It's a one shot and then a new number one is going to be coming out in July and that's, you know, jason Aaron will be taking over from that Alpha story, but from that new number one going forward, coming out in July. And basically what he said was the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series is notably a relaunch and not a reboot, existing in the same universe as the IDW's previously published Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics. So that's really cool. And then he also said in the terms of what's to come the kid in me wants you to know that you can expect some good old fashioned grit, a sprinkle of dark, a new attitude and all the bone cracking action that for mutant Ninja Brothers can possibly handle. I love that. So this came out. You know Ninja Turtles started in the comics like in the 80s or something like that.
Speaker 1:I didn't. I've never read any of the classic stuff. I've never like, I've never picked up that omnibus. I've never owned any of the floppies. The only Ninja Turtle stuff that I own right now is volume one. No well, volume one and two of this run that's been going for 150 issues. I've only read volume one. I read about two, two issues of volume two which I need to dig in my one of my short boxes and find that book I'm with should probably get back into it.
Speaker 1:But I've also enjoyed the crossover story with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers. That's been a really cool series. It's always like five or six issues. I believe they're going to do a volume three of that and I've really just enjoyed that. It's just fun, nostalgic, it just makes me feel like a kid again and just that's like my childhood man and Ninja Turtle games, the cartoons, the action figures, same with the Power Rangers. I used to watch that every, every day. I had VHS tapes and all that stuff I was growing up flipping all over the place.
Speaker 1:So it's really cool now that I get an opportunity to jump into a Ninja Turtles ongoing series with a really good writer who I feel deserved a fresh start now, because it just felt like Jason Aaron was going in circles over there at Marvel, you know, going from Thor to Avengers to Hulk, like he was just all over the place. But it was like that's the Marvel way, like it just rotate writers sometimes and it was getting a little old for him, I feel. And now he's kind of broken free from that and now he gets to do some stuff that he grew up wanting to do. So I'm excited about this. I feel like this is probably, yeah, this is going to be a great jumping on point. Now he mentioned four brothers, four Ninja Brothers. I know there was a female Ninja Turtle that popped up in this run. That's been going on now. So I don't know if that character is going to be going forward or not. Well, I mean, I'll find out once I read the first issue in July, but I'm cool with the classic Turtles and going from there. We'll see how that goes, man. So you know, big ups and good luck to Jason Aaron's on doing that.
Speaker 1:Now let's get into my reads of the week. I was able to pick up one issue this week and it's called Cobra Commander. All right, this is a story that's a part of the Energon universe over there at Skybound and Image Comics or Under Image Comics, which was started with Void Rivals by Robert Kirkman, and then Transformers came out by Daniel Warren Johnson, and Joshua Williamson is now writing Cobra Commander. He's also writing Duke, which is part of like the GI Joe stuff. So first off I've probably said this before I didn't grow up with the GI Joe's.
Speaker 1:That's not my thing. I caught like the tail end of Transformers when they became like Beast Wars, which I enjoyed. I used to get the action figures when I was a kid, but you know a little something about me. When I was a kid I used to get frustrated with those toys because I could never put them back into car form. I can get them into, you know, you know Autobot and all that stuff and Dino Botts and Cheetor and all that stuff. I can do all that but I could never get those mugs back, man, and it was just frustrating me so much. So I didn't grow up really loving the GI Joe and Transformers stuff. So this was a big like risk, I guess, for me with my money, because I was like I'm taking a chance on this. I like Robert Kirkman and I wasn't at first off I wasn't expecting the Transformers and GI Joe stuff Like the way they did. This was so smooth. But we'll get into that in a second.
Speaker 1:The Cobra Commander story about Joshua Williamson.
Speaker 1:This was amazing. This was a really really good first issue. Cobra Commander is it's like a sci-fi story. He is, first off, he's pretty brutal, not gonna lie, like I wasn't expecting that. He's pretty brutal and he has a plan that he's trying to execute. You know always thinking forward, trying to get the next move before anybody else can get there. So I really like where this story is going. And by the end of the issue you find out that he's working with another major villain in, as you all just say, in this universe cause I don't wanna spoil it, cause it just came out but he's working with another major villain who has the same intentions as Cobra Commander they wanna take over, they wanna run the universe, they wanna run anything that they step foot on, they wanna take it over. So that was probably the biggest oh shit moment I've had since Void Rivals issue one.
Speaker 1:And I say that because when Void Rivals came out, no one knew that at the end of that story we were gonna find out that Transformers and GI Joe was now under Image Skybound. Like we didn't know that that was happening. Robert Kirkman wasn't, like you know, letting these plans out in the world. He kept it close to you know, close to his guard, and nobody knew this was coming. The only people that knew this was coming were the people involved. So I feel like this is probably one of the best crossover stories I've read since Rodney Barnes' Kill Adelphia universe, because Rodney Barnes also was doing, you know, building his universe on some low key stuff. Like nobody was.
Speaker 1:Nobody saw Neeta Halls coming out and it being connected to Kill Adelphia. Like we just, you know, we just found, you know, saw that it was coming. And then when you read the solicitations, like wait a minute, she knows James Jr. Like wait a minute, hold up. So we found out, like you know, that was connecting. And then all of a sudden, now you know, you got spawn, you got Savage Dragon, you got Blackula, you got Neeta Halls is still involved in the Kill Adelphia universe. It's all in one story right now, but I mean I would like another Neeta Halls run because that was really that was a really dope story. Hopefully he does get back to that, but right now she's in the Kill Adelphia story. But he, kind of low key, built a super dope universe even with Johnny Gatlin, you know, in the werewolves, like he just found a way to low. You know, low key, build this fire universe that no one saw coming and Robert Kirkman is doing the same thing with this whole Inner John universe.
Speaker 1:Like this is the type of crossovers that I, like you know, I've only been collecting comics like seven years, I believe. All right, so I started collecting in 2016, whatever that is. So you know, this was not what I was used to. The way these two have built their universes Like Marvel always. Oh, epic Crossover. Like they're doing it right now with Blood Hunt, epic Crossover.
Speaker 1:Go get these 25 different titles to complete the run, and you know, and then all of a sudden the story just doesn't pan out to be anything. You know, you got all these characters tied in and then by next summer or by the winter because all these Epic Crossovers come out in the spring and summer, everything is over, nobody cares about any of it and everything goes right back to normal. So this is that's something that Marvel does and DC does quite often. So it gets overdone and gets really whack, you know. And then when you get an opportunity to see something like the Inner John universe or the Killidelphi universe, it's like, oh okay, this is how it's supposed to be done. This is how it's supposed to be done. So I'm really enjoying this series or this universe. It's gonna stay on my pool list. Killidelphi obviously, that's one of my favorite universes. That's gonna stay on my pool list. But that's how you build a universe, man. That's how you properly do it.
Speaker 1:And I'll be honest with you, man, this is the best that I've seen Joshua Williamson in a long time. Like I know, he's done some Batman stuff and things like other crazy little events over there with DC. The last thing that I collected of Joshua Williamson was Flash and I like that. I really enjoyed his Flash run. It was like a hundred issues or something like that and I thoroughly enjoyed it, from beginning, to excuse me from beginning to end, and this is the best that I've seen him. I did read some of his Batman stuff. I wasn't a fan and there was some other crossover stuff for DC that I didn't get into, but this is the best that I've seen.
Speaker 1:Joshua Williamson with Duke and Cobra Commander Like he is writing his ass off. The last great story I loved before the Flash was Frostbite. If you ever get a chance to find that story, I definitely would highly suggest you pick that up, because that is Joshua Williamson at his highest. You know, like that boy was writing his butt off and I told him that to his face. I actually met Joshua Williamson and told him that to his face that that story was incredible. Jason Sean Alexander was doing the artwork on that. But this here this is Joshua Williamson getting back to form. Daniel Warren Johnson writing Transformers has been amazing.
Speaker 1:Void rivals, robert Kirkman Like I've enjoyed a lot of Robert Kirkman stuff. I never got into Walking Dead, but Firepower was great. He had another like sci-fi type of story that was really cool. But yeah, man, these are two universes that you can get into where I feel this is how crossovers are supposed to be done. They kill it off. A universe and an energon universe. Man, I'm really loving those things and they got to keep it going. Man Got to keep it going.
Speaker 1:But we're gonna take another quick break, man, because I want to get into this last topic. I don't really know how I want to feel about this just yet, but I want to get into it, man. There was an article that came out on CBR and I don't know if this guy is trolling or what, but this might be the dumbest shit I ever read by CBR. So we'll get into it after this break. Let's get back to it, people, let's get back to it. So I mentioned before the break that there was an article that came out today's Wednesday, so this came out on Monday, and the article headline says Casper Cole, disney Plus Black Panther series is the best way to expand the franchise.
Speaker 1:Casper Cole was an alternate, alternate Black Panther from the comics and introduction into the MCU. And introduction into the MCU offers potential for a Black for a, for a Marvel spotlight banner. So if you don't know Black Panther they're, they're supposed to be doing like an animated series on Disney Plus, like kind of like spinning out of, I guess, the Wakanda forever stuff. I'm not really sure how they're going to do this, but this guy, his name is Timothy Donahue, I think that's how you say his name, he wrote this really long article suggesting that Casper Cole would be the perfect replacement for Black Panther to Chala in the Wakanda universe, because obviously everybody knows Wakanda forever. They killed off to Chala and the real life actor you know, chadwick Boseman, rest in peace, passed away. So they decided to write the character off in Wakanda forever and that sparked a whole debate about recasting to Chala, when if we were all finding out that he was not going to be recast Now I didn't, I wasn't too bothered by it because before I saw the movie I didn't think they were going to kill off to Chala.
Speaker 1:That's not what I thought was going to happen. I was OK with Shuri stepping in and holding it down for a brother as Black Panther, because that is something that happened in the comics. I wasn't, I wasn't too bothered by that. But when I, when I went and seen the movie which I've only seen one time because it was just too, it was too real. You know, like the movie really felt like it was a funeral for Chadwick Boseman and it kind of just made me sad all over again. So I've never really went back and watched that movie again. Maybe I will one day, but it just it just didn't feel like it. It didn't feel like it didn't have that rewatch ability for me.
Speaker 1:So this guy is suggesting that Casper Cole, who is not a Wakandan, he's not related to, to Chala or Shuri at all. He is a former police officer who got kicked off the force and wanted to continue to investigate something that was going on in the city. He wound up buying a old Black Panther suit off of somebody and he put it on and he pretended to be a Black Panther in New York. He had no powers, he didn't have the heart shaped or any of that, so it really wasn't earned at all. Later on in in the comics you know, he does become like White Tiger, he does become like someone that Chala can kind of lean on in in you know America, basically, like you know, like a kind of like a undercover type of guy. But he's White Tiger, he's not Black Panther. So this guy is saying that since Chala's dead, let's pass the mantle off to Casper Cole.
Speaker 1:And a part of me kind of got angry while I was reading this article, because I feel like we've already gotten a lot of race swaps and gender swaps in the MCU and even in the comics. Some of it makes sense, some of it doesn't. Some of it's kind of just to me pandering a little bit, just a little bit. You know, like, why do we need this? You know what I'm saying, like why can't the person just stay as they are? And is this like diversity, just for the sake of being diverse? You know, like, why do you want to do that? But then, as I was reading the article, I'm like oh okay, it feels like he wants.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure if this is a white guy or a black guy or an Asian guy I don't know who Timothy Donahue is, I don't know who he is but it kind of feels like he's like well, if they can do it, for if the white characters can change to black characters and men can change to women, why can't we put a white dude or biracial dude in the Black Panther suit and call it a day? And to me the only answer is he's not Wakandan. Like why would you want to press that button? He's not Wakandan, he's. I mean, we saw in the first Black Panther movie. The only way you can challenge is that you have to be Wakandan.
Speaker 1:So he's just kind of like doing this whole like speculation article and it kind of got me ticked off a little bit, because people get so upset with with Sam Wilson being Captain America, even in the comics. Like Nick Spencer wrote in his comic that you know there was a Twitter page like or or like it was always trending like not my, not my Captain America. Like he was kind of making fun of how people were reacting to Sam Wilson being Captain America. So people always get up in arms about that. So he's basically saying let's do it to them. You know what I'm saying? Let's switch them. They got a Black Captain America, let's get a biracial Black Panther.
Speaker 1:And I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's right. If you're going to do anything with Black Panther.
Speaker 1:I really hope Kevin Foggy decides to do this. I really think they need to find a way to say that the child that passed away was a scroll. I want them to say that. I want them to say that I mean my guy over at Black Comic Lords, paul, shout out to Paul that that was a theory that he's always laid out, that to child was a scroll. And I agree that's the only way, because I mean you have this great technology in vibranium and it doesn't save the King of Wakanda, like it doesn't save the Black Panther. But he was dead in the first goddamn movie and they poured some heart shaped urban him, buried him in the snow and he came back to life. So what is different now? Like I feel like Ryan Krueger man. I respect everything that he's done in the movie industry, but I feel like his.
Speaker 1:His feelings took over the story and he didn't do the fans justice. He didn't do Chadwick Boseman justice either by letting that happen. And now we have people writing articles that are now trying to give the mantle to a dude from New York who didn't earn anything to get this, to get this, you know. So I think the article is stupid. I think the article is disrespectful and, truth be told, cbr shouldn't have even published this article. Whoever was, whoever the editor is that allowed this to happen? It was bad. It was bad.
Speaker 1:You can go check out the article on your own. It's on CBR. It came out on Monday. Like I said, the title of the article is a Casper Cole. Disney Plus Black Panther series is the best way to expand the franchise. He says Casper Cole was an alternate Black Panther from the comics, which is false. He was somebody that bought a suit, and an introduction into the MCU offers potential for the for the Marvel spotlight banner. Please, mcu, disney Plus, do not abuse the spotlight banner for this bullshit. This, this ain't how it's going to go. That ain't that, ain't it. That ain't it y'all, that ain't it.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, go check that article out, man, if you must, and, honestly, when I drop this episode, I am going to post this article in in my Instagram story or at the Black Podcaster, and I'm going to either. I'm probably going to put it as a real as well, with this clip, and I want you guys to comment, man, I really want you guys to comment. I want you guys to get in those comments and talk about this after you read the article, because this is crazy and it can't. It can't be allowed. I think the one thing that we have to understand is that we too, as Black people, brown people, asian people, indigenous people, we also have the power to be able to say we don't like this. You know, we don't. We don't like this, don't do this. Bring Black Panther back. You know, bring to Chala back. We have the power to do that, the best way we can do that is by not spending our money on the stuff that they just throw at us. So, yeah, I'm going to put this definitely on the Instagram page and hopefully I'll be able to read some comic books this week. I do have a couple of trades that I want to get into for sure. This weekend I started reading the Adam Strange joint. It's pretty crazy, pretty crazy, and I'll probably review that next week as one of my reads of the week.
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