It's being written by Reginald Hudlin who helped reinvigorate Black Panther after Chris Priest left. The art by Doug Braithwaite is solid. The first issue was ok, but by most reports the second issue is better.
It's being written by Reginald Hudlin who helped reinvigorate Black Panther after Chris Priest left. The art by Doug Braithwaite is solid. The first issue was ok, but by most reports the second issue is better.
Haven't read-read it so far but I watched video breakdowns of the first 2 issues. Main thing I'm satisfied with is the filling in of the gaps in his origin.
Yeah, the revamp of the Milestone characters was announced something like a year and a half ago. It took so long because there was a lot of back and forth behind the scenes because DC doesn't own those characters out right and the creators and their estates were hammering out legal issues.
I'm curious about that as well. I doubt Marvel has to call Kevin every time Blue Marvel shows up in the Avengers or whatever. But I wonder if he has a co-owner deal with Marvel when it comes to the rights of the character. At the very least he's got to have a royalty deal where if BM appears in other media he gets paid.
I don't think that's necessarily why BM isn't used more. I mean, he still gets used, just kind of sporadically and not always well. Having said that, there's many examples of both DC and Marvel not wanting to pay creators for one reason or another. It's definitely the reason we don't see the Bradley family ( Isiah, Joshua X, Elijah) in comics these days.
Question... Before Adam (Blue Marvel) Brasher who was Marvel's "Black Superman" analog?
It depends on how you define "analog", but the simple truth is there wasn't one. Kevin Grevioux created Blue Marvel precisely because Marvel didn't have any Black characters that were on Superman's level.
The closest that you get in terms of power is Phastos and/or one of the gods that never get any spotlight and always need help from their White counterparts, like Horus.
The closest that you get in terms of an alien origin for his powers is Earth Sentry, a character from another timeline. But it's unlikely that Earth Sentry would be considered a heavy hitter...like, say, 616 Sentry (who was created 2 years after Earth Sentry), or even Carol Danvers, whose origin Earth Sentry mirrors.
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There is phastos a combination of a thor and superman type.
There are some other black eternals that have shown up before blue marvel in 2008 but they were shown less then phastos.
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