have there been prose novels written about black lightning yet? If not, hopefully that is something that can happen soon.
have there been prose novels written about black lightning yet? If not, hopefully that is something that can happen soon.
There is so much cool detail here! I love all of it!
I especially the awesome touch of incorporating Blue Devil as an adjacent partner/contact to him. The early New 52 story of Black and Blue is super underrated. I loved it, so I'm all for including that into Jefferson's history and backstory and also as a means of introducing new story elements to keep things fresh as needed.
I forgot about HOTSPOT!! I love Hotspot!! I demand justice4joto!! hmmmm I need to revise. off rip, i'd definitely swap him in over Fire on the Elemental Forces.
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i went back and edited my post, here's what i added:
3. Isaiah Crockett (element: heat and fire) post-New 52 I don't think they have properly reintroduced Hotspot before killing him in Heroes in Crisis, so I tweak his origin to make him a Freeland native and a pure Meta rather than half-alien. How I would square that would be by separateing the Pyre identity from Holocaust (when he was in the DC universe), make him his own character (say Leonard Crockett) and retcon him as a former anti-villain/rival of Black Lightning; then have Isaiah be his son. his Dad has Tattoo man or Tobias Whale bring him back to life and after he comes back he moves away from Hotspot and becomes Joto again because I'm African and I like African names. Have him be his own hero operation in Freeland, with his Dad as support, but over time he becomes part of the Lightning family in a similar capacity to like Steel or Batwoman.
Elemental Forces - a team of DC's most powerful elementals: Black Lightning, Cyclone (or Red Tornado), Geo-Force, Joto, Swamp Thing, Mera
Super Predators - Undead and Immortal black male youths aka America's nightmare. This is a black ops team all about exacting righteous black rage through any means necessary. they work well together but each come from a different moral angle: Joto (ambiguous), Duke (righteous), Painkiller (radial)
just like that, four black superhero family legacies (Pierces, Stewarts, Everetts, and Crocketts) that holistically create a fleshed out a Freeland mythology and a solid foundation as an extensive Black Lightning family of characters in DC.
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THE SIGNAL (Duke Thomas) is DC's secret shonen protagonist so I made him a fandom wiki
also, check out "The Signal Tape" a Duke Thomas fan project.
currently following:
- DC: Red Hood: The Hill
- Marvel: TBD
- Manga (Shonen/Seinen): One Piece, My Hero, Dandadan, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kaiju No. 8, Reincarnation of The Veteran Soldier, Oblivion Rouge, ORDEAL, The Breaker: Eternal Force
"power does not corrupt, power always reveals."
to this day, still my favorite Black Lightning outing of all time!
I love when he faces off against other elementals.
THE SIGNAL (Duke Thomas) is DC's secret shonen protagonist so I made him a fandom wiki
also, check out "The Signal Tape" a Duke Thomas fan project.
currently following:
- DC: Red Hood: The Hill
- Marvel: TBD
- Manga (Shonen/Seinen): One Piece, My Hero, Dandadan, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kaiju No. 8, Reincarnation of The Veteran Soldier, Oblivion Rouge, ORDEAL, The Breaker: Eternal Force
"power does not corrupt, power always reveals."
The good news about Death Metal is that these sort of things allow for soft reboots in the vein of bringing characters back and justifying it with the last cosmic retcon; essentially the changes were beneath the surface and mostly involved bringing back canon fodder.
I literally never read anything with this character, but for his fans, I hope that a writer who cares about him brings him back and handwaves his resurrection as part of Death Metal. No big arc, let's move on and do cool stuff while leaving Heroes in Crisis in the rear view mirror.
On-topic for Jeff, man I gotta say as much as I appreciate the characters on the show, the soundtrack makes those fight scenes. I hear it in the background whenever Jeff is on the page now and it does just make the show that much better. Cress is an outstanding Jefferson, too. I can't imagine anyone else in the role.
Comic-wise, we have one more issue of BatO and then John Ridley's Other History of the DC Universe and then nothing with Jefferson. What's everyone's dream team for Jeff's next arc, mini or ongoing?
I hope his next arc is about him setting up shop and establishing his space. Hill has done a a pretty good job (if nothing else) hyping Black Lightning up in his Outsiders run, I hope with Other History around the corner that DC has Jeff dealing with a story that takes up more space in the landscape. I think it would be fun for BL to fight Red Lion, Warlord Black Panther was an interesting idea and I think they could expand on him and make him very compelling. We've already seen that he can mess with a the Justice League a little bit in Priest's JL story, I feel like he could be like a Dr. Doom type mastermind and would love to see how Jeff deals with that. then there is a added layer of the African Indigene vs the African diaspora, with two character who are cerebral by nature, that should be a philosophical/cultural dynamic that's explore.
However, I'm also really keen on seeing Black Lightning flexing nowadays. I want to see him in more high fantasy and scifi stories where he gets to be spectacular and conventionally powerful; so seeing him fight an Elemental like vs Geo Force, or him fighting another powerhouse in the DC universe. I think him and John teaming up to fight Umbrax on some other planet for a limited series would be perfect.
THE SIGNAL (Duke Thomas) is DC's secret shonen protagonist so I made him a fandom wiki
also, check out "The Signal Tape" a Duke Thomas fan project.
currently following:
- DC: Red Hood: The Hill
- Marvel: TBD
- Manga (Shonen/Seinen): One Piece, My Hero, Dandadan, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kaiju No. 8, Reincarnation of The Veteran Soldier, Oblivion Rouge, ORDEAL, The Breaker: Eternal Force
"power does not corrupt, power always reveals."
I like the idea of Freeland being the capital city of metahumans. I would borrow some elements of Young Justice animated series by having metahuman youth centres to help children and teens who have been victimized by meta-human trafficking and there could also be metahuman communities in Freeland. I imagine that the city has been infected by the source wall energies, and there are tons of victims whose metagene were activated from the cosmic event.
What are y'all thoughts on the BL tv series?
It has had 3 seasons so far and will be returning for a 4th next year.
Please give a review rating ..../10 for the show over all and if u can...also share pros and cons in your opinion about the tv show so far as well as what you would like to change, remove and/or add for the next season.
Uhm.....can someone help me understand how BL got x-ray vision and flight powers in the tv series?
It’s just the result of someone taking the time to respectably flesh out his powers beyond “pew-pew” lightning bolts. Somehow the goggles assist with being able to see through things. I believe that episode explained it. Flight is in the comics already. Electromagnetism.
An in-depth explanation is that he flies via electromagnetism and has x-ray vision due to being able to see electrical impulses in the human body.
What really bothers me about the new Batman and the Outsiders comic is that he 'needed' an 'upgrade' from Batman to do things he was fully capable of doing pre Rebirth or whatever the current era of DC comics is.
So basically BL himself doesn't have the x-ray vision power, it's the tech goggles doing it. Ok.
Since when did BL become electromagnetic?
His powers have always been pure electricity..... electromagnetism/EM powers is STATICs and SPECTRUM s/Monica Rambeau's superpower.....looks like they wanna head BL in that direction which would be too copycatie.
Yet there are still plenty of cool still BL can do with pure electricity. I have enjoyed what Hill has done to elevate BLs abilities in the Outsiders but u can tell that he is pushing the electrical powers to it's higher limits without going into EM category too much.
The flight power is VERY Recent in the current Outsiders. I don't recall BL ever having flight powers until the tv show and Hill followed by doing the same in the comics.
Btw how does Thunder's powers differentiate from BLs powers?