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Disney+ has released a new trailer for the upcoming original movie Sneakerella, premiering May 13 on the streaming service. From the studio behind the mega-hit Descendants, High School Musical, and ZOMBIES franchises, this pop/hip-hop musical is set in the vibrant street-sneaker subculture of New York City and puts a contemporary twist on the Cinderella fairy tale.
El, an aspiring sneaker designer from Queens, works as a stock boy in a shoe store and hides his artistic talent. Sparks fly after a chance encounter with Kira King, the daughter of sneaker royalty and a Manhattan Princess Charming of sorts. With a nudge from his best friend and a touch of magic, El finds the courage to lace up and dream big.
Triple threats Chosen Jacobs and Lexi Underwood respectively star as El and Kira alongside a multi-talented, diverse ensemble cast including John Salley, Devyn Nekoda, Juan Chioran, Bryan Terrell Clark, Kolton Stewart, Robyn Alomar, Yvonne Senat Jones, and Hayward Leach.
Sneakerella is a Disney+ original movie from Disney Branded Television, directed and co-executive produced by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum. Jane Startz and Rachel Watanabe-Batton serve as executive producers. The teleplay was written by David Light & Joseph Raso, Tamara Chestna, and Mindy Stern & George Gore II and is based on a story by Stern & Gore and Light & Raso. Chestna also serves as co-executive producer.
Sneakerella begins streaming May 13, 2022, exclusively on Disney+.
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the 64th annual Grammys were held this past weekend and we have our thoughts about the Black musical tradition slowly receding into the background each year; Billionaire inventor and entrepreneur, Elon Musk recently raised eyebrows with his majority stock purchase of the social media giant, Twitter and his proposal for changes to the platform; S3 of Atlanta returns and we have our thoughts; And in the wake of the popular FX series return, we have to ask....What exactly is Black Surrealism? Our thoughts about the second episode of Disney plus' Moon Knight; comic artist/writer, Mike Allred takes a shot at Superman for a non-canonical story entitled, Superman: Space Age;
A fascinating Kickstarter campaign is afoot, folks! CB creator, Nate Cosby has a project pitch centered around a Black cape that has two superhero identities, formerly named Alter-Ego and renamed (after prompting from comic book icon, Roy Thomas) to The Daring Double Life of Ace Adams:
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Writer: Shobo / Artist: Shof / Image
Halfway through the mini-series, there’s still plenty of world building and exposition in play, but the main narrative of New Masters is in full swing after a very stressful inciting incident. Ola, not wanting to be cooped up on the ship, makes an attempt to leave only to see the nearby neighborhood get bombarded. This is enough to convince Ola’s mother to take the sketchy job in exchange for Jovian residency passes for her husband and daughter. And thus, the heisting in Eko begins. The crew begins scoping out the job to steal an artifact called “The Eye of Ọ̀rúnmìlà” (for those taking notes at home, yes this is a Yoruba mythological reference, and shout out to Shobo for incorporating so much of the myth and heritage into the story).
New Masters #3 feels like the series has finally found its stride. With a clear impetus and some much-needed flashbacks, we finally have a good sense of the crew we’re following and a better understanding of some of the complex sociopolitical parties at play. It took half the series to do so, but given the incredible scope of the story, I’m perfectly okay with how the pieces of the puzzles were distributed.
New Masters #3 is our first real opportunity to see the decadence of the Jovians, and their splendor contrasts brilliantly with some of the squalor we’ve witnessed the last two issues. Shof and Francesco Segala utilize significantly brighter, more vibrant colors for the Jovians which plays off brilliantly off the muted colors of Eko and the hazy blues of the flashbacks. It creates a wonderful dynamic, and the heist scenes are wonderfully energetic and result in a fun blur of gunfire and fisticuffs.
Shobo’s masterfully leverages the cast to create lots of great moments throughout the issue, whether it’s the rapid-fire banter or a quiet moment of tenderness. There’s a lot to love, and the conclusion of the issues transitions beautifully into the next half of the series.
New Masters is innovative and expressive. There’s a lot of worldbuilding done on and off the page, but Ola and her family’s story has remained consistent and improved every issue. This is one of the finest examples of Afrofuturism you’ll find on the shelves.
9.4 “Crashed Parties” out of 10
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Writer: Shobo / Artist: George Kambadais / Boom! Studios
Last issue saw Toba enter into the temporally odd Elseverse reunite with his father while his friends defended the portal to the best of their abilities to buy their companion as much as time as humanly possible. After a lot of bearing of various emotions, it looked like the day was won when Toba discovered the existence of the Eben Sword, but unfortunately their nemesis Ewon also escaped. Thus set the stages for the final issue of the Buckhead mini-series.
With Ewon and his legions slowly wreaking havoc on Buckhead, Toba and the team have to make a final one stand to save their town. Shobo and Kambadais had to cover a lot of ground with this issue. While we had a grand action set piece last issue, we had yet to have the final definitive fight, and the creative team had a lot of ground to cover with the standard twenty pages. Everything moves at a blinding quick pace as Toba retrieves the Eben Sword in the real world, and the group finally fights Ewon head on.
Shobo manages to be efficient with the storytelling, but there is very little time to breathe. Each page is full to the brim with action and exposition and even the moments of rest that the character gets are brief pages before we get to the narrative beat. Furthermore, given that the majority of the issue deals with the action-packed climax, there’s not a lot of real estate to unpack the implications of the ending. While it wraps everything up, I feel like one more issue could have helped with the pacing.
Kambadais makes Buckhead #5 a spectacle to look at though, and Jim Campbell’s lettering is absolutely on fire between Ewon’s altered speech text and the exposition boxes. All of the actions are easy to follow even though it’s very dense, and Ewon’s final design is truly a site to behold and stare at in wonder. The visual elements of the book are dynamic and kinetic, and it makes for a great read.
All in all, Buckhead was a tight, if not filled to the brim, mini-series that did a lot of intriguing things with the intersection of video games and mythology. There’s a lot to love and the world provided a fun, thrilling jaunt. I would have appreciate maybe just a couple more pages to fully appreciate all of the effort that went into constructing Toba’s journey.
8.4 “Elseverse Mods” out of 10
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