Archive for the ‘Marvelous’ Category

HYPER IRON MANGA…

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

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Lastnite on the Combat Jack Show, Complex Magazine’s Editor-In-Chief Noah Callahan-Bever was kicking it about some of his favorite comicbook artists. He mentioned Todd McFarlane and Rob Liefeld as his heavy influences in the genre. I’m more a fan of older generation artists like Neal Adams, John Byrne and Frank Miller, but when I think of the newer generation artists whose work I enjoy I look at Adam Warren.

Warren was the dude who adapted the Dirty Pair into a comicbook series. His artwork is heavily directed by anime and manga illustrations. I appreciate it for the graffiti compositions I see inside of it. Warren acts as a storyteller in a similar fashion and retains a frenetic storyline to match his storyboards. I’m excited to see he has done a series with Marvel’s Iron Man character titled ‘Hypervelocity’.

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warren im

I’m gonna copp the trade on Amazon unless someone has read it already and tells me that I shouldn’t bother.

Fanboyz Unite!

DRIZZLE REIGNS…

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

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Not that this will save the music industry any more than Justin Bieber will, but it is fun to see an ‘event’ in terms of new music for the kids.

Drake is cementing the return of the lightskint dominance. Shout outs to Grant Hill, Tony Dungy, Shemar Moore, Alfonso Ribiero, Christoper Williams, Cockroach, and of course, the patron saint of lightskintedness: Al B. Sure

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Make Love Not War Machine…

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

war machine

Let’s keep things 100-1000 over here whether we are talking about the real world or the Marvel Universe. James ‘Rhodey’ Rhodes was the luckiest man on the planet. He moved up thru the ranks of the military without having his arse shot off and then when he saw the opportunity to join the private sector he winds up working for the richest man in America.

Rhodey carried weed for Tony Stark. Back then in the 1980’s when all them rich fools was doing blow and fuxing wild hot broads Tony Stark was not immune to excess. He needed more than just a limousine driver, he needed someone to score his ass some vials of crack and some hos. That is how Rhodey got on in the game.

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Peep Rhodey’s down ass haircut.

Back in the day we called that style of boxcut ‘steps’ for the change in levels.

3 x dope

Most people now come to associate that style as the ‘Philly flattop’ made popular by E.S.T. and the group 3(x)Dope.

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When Tony Stark cracked out for a time and had to go to undercover rehab he let Rhodey come up all the way in the game and rock his own version of the Mark IV Iron Man armor.

With great power comes great responsibility and with the Rolodex of a billionaire comes a grip of sweet white vajeans.

war machine
war machine

Rhodey was getting caught up beating out the brains of Tony Stark’s sloppy seconds.

At first he tried to act like it wasn’t the right thing to do, but ask yourself if you would deny the pleasure of holding on to some milky tops? Exactly.

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That’s when Tony Stark had to pull the plug on all of that Black bullshit. Plus Rhodey had forgot his foremost job requirement – roll that weed bitch!

Tony Stark don’t play that shit and he sent Rhodey on his way butter ass nekkid into the streets.

The moral of the story is to stay rolling that weed nice and tight and leave the weed owner’s bitches alone.

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Wu-Massacre: I’m Copping The Vinyl…

Monday, March 29th, 2010

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I’m not copping the vinyl issue of the Wu-Massacre for the same reason I bought Gil Scott-Heron’s album. The cover art for Wu-Massacre was done by Marvel Comics’ artist Chris Bachalo and is a long time coming for the Wu-Tang Clan. I take that back. Bill Sienkewicz merc’ked that Bobby Digital cover, but the Wu-Tang comes from the era of Frank Miller and Klaus Janson’s Daredevil and Ronin artwork. These artists should have been expressed graphically in this manner a loooong time ago. Still and all, Sean Price ‘Monkey Barz‘ cover is the G.O.A.T. comic art album cover.

I’ve been reading so many reviews that have put this collaborative project in the gutter. Not the good rap gutter tho’ which is sometimes referred to as gully. The critics have put this album in the same gutter where you put your basura. Wu-Massacre is not bad at all, but people’s Wu-Tang expectations are constantly in a place that means if the album is not a part 10 of the 36 Chambers then the album is a fail. That shouldn’t be the case. The Wu is till making great music. The fans, if you could call them that, are in another place right now. It doesn’t help the Wu either that they seem to be at odds with their fans as well as their founder.

Wu-Massacre‘ feels like it is only a bit longer in runtime than Gil Scott Heron’s new album. What is the deal with these new EP albums? I guess if people aren’t going to pay for their music anymore it doesn’t make sense to give them a full length LP. It does figure that my favorite track was RZA produced. Wu-Tang is forever bitches and this concludes my #Musix Monday drops.


Meth, Ghost, and Raekwon – ‘Our Dreams’


Meth, Ghost, and Rae feat. Inspectah Deck, Sun God – ‘Gunshowers’

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mef
mef

Marvelous Color…

Friday, December 18th, 2009

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Biggups to the big homey Combat Jack who knows how the fux we get down in these streets. I had a nice little function to hit up lastnite at the LRG brand offices (shouts to DopeBoy Meka) but before then Combat Jack asked me to roll with him to this event that was put together by his homey Riggs Morales.

The event was called Marvelous Color and it is a celebration of six(6) of the iconic Marvel Comics superheroes that were brothers (and a sista). Black Panther, Falcon, Luke Cage, Storm, War Machine and Blade were all the subjects of the exhibit featuring original art and reproductions of legendary covers by some of the industry’s artists of color.

These heroic characters on the pages of my favorite comic books were my license to dream about being heroic myself. Comic books not only entertain their readers they actually empower their readers also. Comic books reconfigure our world so that we can all imagine wearing the mask or the cape. Marvelous Color recognizes that and celebrates it with us. This exhibit will be on display until the end of February. There is no reason for you to come to New York City and not come see this art show.

Marvelous Color
CCCADI Gallery
408 West 58th Street
M-F 10am-6pm