"Hulk: Grand Design," Sounds Right Up My Alley

The, "Grand Design," comics have had fantastic creators retell the origins of famous Marvel superheroes in superb ways. Ed Piskor gave us the amazing X-Men version and then Tom Scioli crafted a beautiful take on the Fantastic Four. Now, Jim Rugg will be doing a retelling of the origin of the Hulk. Rugg has made some awesome works from, "Street Angel," to, "Afrodisiac," and plenty of other neat stuff. I'm excited at the thought of him giving us, "Hulk: Grand Design," in the near future!

A Hilarious Pseudo-Sequel--Black Dynamite #1

Black Dynamite #1
There was a very funny movie that parodied blaxploitation films that came out a couple of years ago called, Black Dynamite. It had the talented Michael Jai White (who has a writing credit for this along with a bunch of other folk) as the titular hero, an ex-CIA operative and Vietnam veteran who fights against the man and solves a big mystery. It was a really funny flick and had some great kung-fu fighting. So, when I saw that Ape Entertainment had an officially licensed one-shot you know I was going to pick it up. Would it live up to expectations however? Yeah, I would say it pretty much did.

A great graphic novel: Afrodisiac

 Afrodisiac

A satiric riff on the era of Blaxplotation (think like "Black Dynamite"), Afrodisiac is an original graphic novel featuring the aforementioned title character on his various adventures, be it pimping, fighting Dracula, wooing countless women, or seducing death herself. This book has already gotten great reviews, so what did I think? I liked it. Why I liked it follows the cut...