I just saw this link to Emergency. It's got this interesting style to the art as well:


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Vision Machine is a free 3 issue comic series about a future mixing social networking and virtual reality, with tons of POC characters to boot.

You can download the first two issues here in PDF format.

http://visionmachine.net/download/

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Dwayne McDuffie just keeps on steppin'! Here he is talking to comic books news web site, Newsarama, about the Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths DVD, which comes out this Tuesday, February 23 (had no idea bro was so TALL) --
http://www.newsarama.com/common/media/video/player.php?videoRef=NA_100219_dwayne-mcduffie
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Walked into the comic book store yesterday, and saw the first issue of Halo: Bloodline- a new mini-series based on Bungie's Halo videogames.  On the cover?  Iona, an AI who is a black womanThe basic premise sets the story before the Halo trilogy- humanity is on the losing side of a galactic war, their colonies being wiped out, one after another by ( Read more... )

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I made a post about Ryan Reynolds getting cast as Green Lantern after over a year's worth of Common being touted as possibly playing John Stewart in a Justice League film. Thought it would be relevant to some people's interests.

http://www.secretidentities.org/

Superheroes speak to the part of us-and we all have it-that hopes, deep down, that we’re special. -Entertainment Weekly

What if we told you a tale about a quiet, unassuming guy with black hair and thick glasses? He’s an immigrant, who’s done his best ( Read more... )

OK so y'all were napping, so I had to find out that Kevin Grevioux is a howard grad microbiology major turned writer on my own *huffs*, who apparently is writing a series specifically dealing with race and stuff for Marvel.

Created by “Underworld” movie star and “New Warriors” writer Kevin Grevioux, the new six-issue miniseries “Adam: Legend of ( Read more... )

brokenmystic84 kindly let me know he's posted the second part of his analysis of Muslimah characters in comics: here (part one is here).