Another classic Combat Jack Show is in the books and uploaded early by A King. The show’s featured guest is none other than our good friend Alvin Blanco who chronicled that definitive Wu-tang history.
The show takes an unexpected and hilarious turn when Mr.Mecc falls thru with a pr0n goddess named Aryana Starr. My favorite quote from her was about her determination to be successful in the adult industry by continuously “putting out”. Uhh, chyeah?!?
Every Wednesday from 10pm-12midnite you better be ready for Combat.
My flight to ATL should be en route as you read this drop. I’m bringing my nephew to Atlanta to hang out with his grandmother for a few weeks. Don’t feel a kind of way if the updates come slower than you are used to [ll].
While I’m off the internets and on my real life shit you should be fuxing with these pages on the regulack…
Tony Grand$ is single-handedly bringing blogs back
I’m pulling out all the books, or rather graphic novels that I have received via snail mailed from my friends. I love trading stuff to people via snail mail. My homegirl Digital Femme received an Adult Swim sweatshirt from me and in return she issued me the above book illustrated by comic book artist Randy DuBurke.
The autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley might be the most important book I have ever read next to Shel Silverstein’s ‘The Giving Tree’ and Anthony Burgess’ ‘A Clockwork Orange’. I think this graphic novel will bring a new audience to the story of Malcolm X, who was the last great Black superhero. It’s fitting that Malcolm’s life was adapted into a graphic novel by artist Randy DuBurke because he has a history of illustrating the heroes we are familiar with under the DC Comics banner.
DuBurke’s minimalist style reminds me of Bill Sienkewicz and his drawings which are quite trippy and impressionistic. DuBurke underlays archival photographs so that his embellishment gives a realistic appearance. This graphic novel isn’t meant to look like a comic book even tho’ it is laid out like one panelwise. Malcolm X’s story is that real and I love looking at DuBurke’s treatment of this everlasting African American king.
Philly’s favorite comicbook artist Jamar Nicholas is a super friend of this webpage. You might remember some of his work featured here from the Detective Boogaloo series. That was great stuff.
With the true story of Geoffrey Canada’s life called ‘Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History Of Violence’, Nicholas has created a graphic novel which is more graphic than novel. Nicholas captures the essence of Canada’s story which is the coming of age inside of the urban ghetto. Canada barely survives growing up in the Bronx as he comes to learn the lessons of the power of violence.
Nicholas’ artwork in this book is reminiscent of Jack Kirby in its conveyance of drama and bombast. The panels are in black and white and Nicholas uses the voids and shadows as characters in the story. Nicholas gives Canada’s life story the movement and spirit that makes this book an instant classic. Jamar Nicholas adaption of Canada’s story should be added to the curriculum of public schools in Detroit, Dallas, St.Louis and Chicago.
I was sent this book from a fellow Internets. He wrote the story in 2008 and I found it to be more than just a contemporary story but one that dates back to my childhood also.
We are a society of consumers, and mostly conspicuous consumers at that. We are indoctrinated into the consumerist culture at a very early age. The language we have been taught is then turned against us.
We are made to feel incomplete without the acquisition of ‘things’. All things. This short story follows a young boy’s quest to acquire an item that he hopes will make him a better person. In the end, we see that his journey is what makes him whole and not the item. As soon as I have a child this will be part of the bedtime storytime rotation.
