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The Grindhouse Airs this Sunday-2.17.19
Another one of our straight, no chaser installments, folks! Welcome to our latest episode of Afronerd Radio’s The Grindhouse podcast-airing Sundays at 6pm eastern. The topics on the “George Foreman” grill this week are: assurgent podcaster and famed Brooklynite, Gerald Moody better known as “GMoody” (formerly of I am Rapaport) stops by to talk about his new podcast, This That & The Third With GMoody; our impressions of Robert Rodriguez’ Alita: Battle Angelfilm which premiered in theaters this week along the Netflix debut of The Umbrella Academy; the Jussie Smollett racial attack saga continues and gets more complicated; DC Universe’s highly anticipated Doom Patrol also premiered this past Friday and we give you our thoughts; acknowledging greatness, baseball legend, Frank Robinson passed recently; some folks are actually perturbed that erstwhile football player and activist, Colin Kaepernick settled his NFL collusion case for an undisclosed figure; however, in Wisconsin, GOP lawmakers have made the Kaepernick name “mud” by scrubbing his name from their Black History Month list; it appears that thankfully, actor, Michael B. Jordan is not only a blerd but also an Afronerd listener! He’s open to portraying Superman……just not Clark Kent; Amazon is NOT coming to Queens after all and the city is divided (what else is new!); lastly, the black horror renaissance continues with the Matrailer recently hitting the cyberwebs. Call LIVE at 646-915-9620.
The Grindhouse Airs this Sunday-2.17.19
Another one of our straight, no chaser installments, folks! Welcome to our latest episode of Afronerd Radio's The Grindhouse podcast-airing Sundays at 6pm eastern. The topics on the "George Foreman" grill this week are: assurgent podcaster and famed Brooklynite, Gerald Moody better known as "GMoody" (formerly of I am Rapaport) stops by to talk about his new podcast, This That & The Third With GMoody; our impressions of Robert Rodriguez' Alita: Battle Angelfilm which premiered in theaters this week along the Netflix debut of The Umbrella Academy; the Jussie Smollett racial attack saga continues and gets more complicated; DC Universe's highly anticipated Doom Patrol also premiered this past Friday and we give you our thoughts; acknowledging greatness, baseball legend, Frank Robinson passed recently; some folks are actually perturbed that erstwhile football player and activist, Colin Kaepernick settled his NFL collusion case for an undisclosed figure; however, in Wisconsin, GOP lawmakers have made the Kaepernick name "mud" by scrubbing his name from their Black History Month list; it appears that thankfully, actor, Michael B. Jordan is not only a blerd but also an Afronerd listener! He's open to portraying Superman......just not Clark Kent; Amazon is NOT coming to Queens after all and the city is divided (what else is new!); lastly, the black horror renaissance continues with the Matrailer recently hitting the cyberwebs. Call LIVE at 646-915-9620.
Writer: Kelly Thompson / Artists: Carmen Carnero, Amanda Conner, Paul Mounts / Marvel
Post Apocalypse Time On Roosevelt Island
We open on Captain Marvel punching it up with Nuclear Man inside some kind of time/space bubble on Roosevelt Island. The whole island appears to be in rubble, the sky is red, there’s a mysterious green mist off in some direction. The apocalypse as come and gone.
Out the door, I’m going to admit I don’t know where Roosevelt Island is (context tells me NYC), so the sense of scale and threat in this issue of Captain Marvel is muted for me. I mean, is losing Roosevelt Island a big deal? That’s only the first question of the many that this rough issue brings to mind.
There’s plenty of Sparklefist power on display. Well drawn and well paced, with Captain’s trademark “hit me with your best shot” quips littered properly throughout. That part is all textbook. The challenge here is in the scenes between the punching. The exposition of the situation is awkwardly given — there’s a bubble on the island that keeps men out and women in, with some kind of time-dilation effect as a bonus — and doesn’t actually reveal how some of the more obvious aspects of the problem. The cast of supporting heroes, bestie Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew), Echo (Maya Lopez), and Hazmat (Jennifer Takeda), has an interesting cross-section of powers. They are unfortunately, wasted. All we see of them here is them using guns against vaguely drawn robots. There’s some talk about the island *also* having power-dampening effects, but it seems randomly applied. And if the supers aren’t super on the island, why are they the only ones fighting? While all the other “normal” women and girls hide out in a bunker? Like I said, questions. No answers.
The villain, Nuclear Man/Mahkizmo, is too on-the-nose to be either threatening or interesting. This is not a guy destined for the Villain Hall of Fame. He’s just there to lead Carol and Corp to a bigger bad, or to give them a chance to throw punches while feeling good about fighting a misogynist. Fun fact, most misogynists are harder to spot. Not a lot harder, but still.
The end of the issue reveals a further complication. Hopefully that’s the last thread, so that Thompson and crew can get to weaving this together into a story worth reading. This is a weak issue overall, but one that lays promising ground-work. Sometimes a story stumbles out the door then finds its feet after a few issues. I’m willing to say that’s the case here.
6.5 Mysterious Barriers out of 10
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