DC Africana Appreciation Vol. 3: 2021

**lemonpeace** · 01-01-2021, 12:52 AM

[name all the characters :-p]

Take 2...

it's the return of the Africana Appreciation thread! This is the 2021 edition of the DC Africana Appreciation Thread; Volume Three BAY-BEEEE!! and this time, we're multiple choice! In 2020 we saw Mr. Terrific and Black Lightning coming off pretty solid runs leading team titles, we saw young heroes like Jackson Hyde and Duke Thomas get their moment in the sun with solo stories, the rise of an African New God, and the fantastic kick-off to John Ridley's The Other History of the DC Universe; and many more great black moments. However, 2021 we have some truly amazing things for our black heroes coming down the pipeline, and so much to appreciate! We have the return of Milestone, we have a major Vixen story kicking off the new Truth & Justice title, we have Future State giving us a new Black Batman, a Black Aquaman, and the return of the black Mr. Miracle (Shiloh Noman), as well as John Stewart taking a leading role in and post-Future State for the Green Lantern franchise. Also, we have Naomi getting her own live-action TV series from Ava Duverany, we have Ryan Wilder as the new black Batwoman in the second season of Batwoman, and a Black Adam movie starring the Rock and featuring a black Hawkman. So, once again, this is a thread dedicated to DC's black characters, from Africans, to those across the African Diaspora, and including black identifying Aborigines; however utilized, or underutilized, the character may be and regardless of alignment. I will try to keep this up to date so feel free to post anyone I missed and I will add them to the list.

Exemplifying Black Excellence!
The Hall of Fame

In 2019 John Stewart swept the competition as the top black DC hero. 2020, in an unusual turn of events, we actually had a three-way tie; with Static coming from behind to tie with Black Lightning and Mr. Terrific, who had been battling for the #1 spot most of last year. In lieu of taking all three off the board, and in honor of the return of the Milestone Universe, I decided to return Black Lightning and Mr. Terrific to the pool and induct SUPERHEROOOO STATIC SHOCK (woop-woooo), Static into the Hall of Fame!

The People's Guardian: John Stewart Appreciation
https://community.cbr.com/showthread...reciation-2021

Virgil Ovid Hawkins: Static Appreciation
https://community.cbr.com/showthread...on-Thread-2021

Milestone Appreciation
https://community.cbr.com/showthread.php?1920-Milestone

NOTABLE HEROES
Amazing-Man [Markus Clay]
Aqualad [Jackson Hyde/Kaldur'ahm]
Azrael II [Michael Lane]
Batwing I [David Zavimbe]
Batwing II [Luke Fox]
Battalion [Jackson King]
Black Lightning [Jefferson Pierce]
Bloodwynd [Frederick Widmer]
Bronze Tiger [Ben Turner]
Bumblebee [Karen Beacher]
Catspaw [April Dumaka]
Chunk [Chester P. Runk]
Coldcast [Nathan Craig Jones]
Computo [Danielle Foccart]
Commander Gideon
Crimson Avenger [Jill Carlyle]
Cyborg [Victor Stone]
Darla Dudley
Darkstar [Carla White]
Deadly Six
Doctor Midnight [Beth Chapel]
Dr. Mist [Nommo Balewa]
Earthstrike [Dede Yeboah] & The Kingdom
Firestorm [Jason Rusch]
Freight Train [Eric Moran]
Freedom Beast [Dominic Mndawe]
Fuerza [Angela Antigone]
Green Lantern [John Stewart]
Hardware [Curtis Metcalf]
Harlem Harley [Antonia Moore]
Hawkgirl [Kendra Munoz-Saunders]
Herald/Vox [Mal Duncan]
Hotspot [Isaiah Crockett]
Icon [August Freeman]
Invisible Kid II [Jacques Foccart]
Jakeem Thunder [Jakeem Williams]
Jet [Celia Windward]
Jog [Samuel Song]
John Diggle
Josiah Power
Kid Flash [Wallace West]
Kid Quantum [James Cullen]
Kid Quantum II [Jazmin Cullen]
Lightning [Jennifer Pierce]
Naomi McDuffie
Nix Uotan
Nu'bia
Mister Miracle [Shiloh Norman]
Mister Terrific [Michael Holt]
Muhammad X
Onyx [Onyx Adams]
Oracle [Gus Yale]
Orpheus [Gavin King]
Pantha [Rosabelle Mendez]
Power Girl [Tanya Spears]
Rocket [Raquel Ervin]
Rorschach [Reggie Long]
Signal, the [Duke Thomas]
Star Boy [Thom Kallor]
Static [Virgil Hawkins]
Steel I [John Irons]
Steel II [Natasha Irons]
Superman [Val-Zod & Calvin Ellis]
Skyrocket [Celia Forrestal]
Teen Lantern [Keli Quintela]
Tempest [Joshua Clay]
Technique [Tiffany Evans]
The Spectre III [Crispus Allen]
Thunder [Anissa Pierce]
Thunderer
Tyroc [Troy Stewart]
Vigilante [Donny Fairchild]
Virtue [Holly Ann Fields]
Vixen [Mari McCabe]
Vykin the Black/Vykin Baldaur
Wise Son [Hannibal White]
XS [Jenni Ognats]

VILLAINS/ANTI-HEROES
Amanda Waller
Black Manta [David Hyde]
Black Mass [Geoffrey Thibodeux]
Black Racer [Willie Walker]
Black Spider [Eric Needham]
Brick [Danny Brickwell]
Crowbar [Malcolm Tandy]
Crux [Simon Amal]
Cyborg 2.0 [Ron Evers]
Cyborgirl [LeTonya Charles]
Deathblow [Michael Cray]
Despot [Isaiah King]
Gnomon
Gregory Wolfe
Holocaust/Pyre [Leonard Smalls]
Houngan [Jean-Louis Droo]
Killer Croc [Waylon Jones]
Lord Battle [Abraham Attah]
Massacre [Isaac Zavimbe]
Mr. Bones [Robert Todd]
Mr. Bloom I [Daryl Gutierrez]
Mr. Bloom II
Ox [Mustapha Maksai]
Papa Midnite [Linton Midnite]
Peek-a-Boo [Lashawn Baez]
Power Ring [Antimatter Universe John Stewart]
Red Lion [Matthew Bland]
Tabu
Tattoo Man [Mark Richards]
Tobias Whale

MUST READ TITLES [Upcoming]
(2021) The Next Batman (Timothy Fox & the Fox Family)
(2021) Future State: Aquaman (Jackson Hyde)
(2021) Future State: Last Lantern (John Stewart)
(2021) new Green Lantern run (John Stewart)
(2021) Truth & Justice #1-3 (Vixen, Impala, Dr. Mist)

MUST READ TITLES [On-Goings]
(1977) Black Lightning #1-11
(1984) Green Lantern Vol. 2 #182-200
(1986) Green Lantern Corps #201-224
(1992) Green Lantern: Mosaic #1-18
(1993) Hardware #1-50
(1993) Static #1-45
(1993) Icon #1-42
(1994) Steel #0-52
(1995) Black Lightning #1-13
(2004) Firestorm #1-35
(2011) Batwing #0-34
(2011) Mr Terrific #1-8
(2011) Static Shock #1-8
(2011) The Fury of Firestorm #0-20
(2011) Green Lantern Corps #21-40
(2015) Cyborg #1-12
(2015) We are Robin #1-12
(2018) The Terrifics #1-28
(2019) Batman & the Outsiders #1-17
(2019) Naomi #1-present (#1-6 season one)

MUST READ TITLES [Limited Series]
(2001) Static Shock: Rebirth of the Cool #1-4
(2008) Vixen: Return of the Lion #1-5
(2009) Black Lightning: Year One #1-6
(2015) Green Lantern: Lost Army #1-6
(2018) Black Lightning: Cold Dead Hands #1-6
(2018) Wildstorm: Michael Cray #1-12
(2018) Batman and The Signal #1-3
(2020) Far Sector #1-ongoing
(2020) The Other History of The DC Universe #1-ongoing

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Originally Posted by Gaelforce

At the end of the year, all Appreciation threads are closed and new threads for the coming year are put in place.

Appreciation threads are for just that - Appreciation. Not for debate, not for slamming and not for bringing other characters down by comparison.~

Commence appreciating! :-)

Link to Vol. 1 of this thread
Link to Vol. 2 of this thread

and as always, shoutout to the Latino Appreciation thread by @El_Gato for the inspiration; and shoutouts to @Lonewolf36 for helping compile the character lists.

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