He’s been gone for 54 years however now he is again, courtesy of John Jennings, in Silver Surfer: Ghost Light #1 out now, from Marvel Comics.
Once upon a time again in 2019, I wrote a satirical article about Marvel’s Silver Surfer #5 from 1969 by Stan Lee and John Buscema, pretending it was a contemporary comedian e-book and pretended to be offended by all of the wokeness and “shoehorning of racial politics into the comedian e-book.
As a results of this comedian e-book, one Tim Sullivan from North Carolina has made his views clear on these political issues being pressured into such comedian books regardless that, as he assures us, he isn’t racist and is all for Marvel placing “the Negro in the spotlight”…
Dr Alan B Harper was one among Marvel’s first African American protoginists, even when his look – and life – solely lastest for a problem, as an inventor who succeeds in releasing the Silver Surfer from his imprisonment on Earth, his grave maked by an everlasting mild by the Surfer.
Then this week, over fifty years later, he returned in Silver Surfer: Ghost Light #1 by John Jennings and Valentine De Landro. And completely timed for Black History Month.
John Jennings is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies on the University of California at Riverside, the place he examines the visible tradition of race in numerous media kinds together with movie, illustrated fiction, and comics and graphic novels. He can also be the director of Abrams ComicArts imprint Megascope, which publishes graphic novels centered on the experiences of individuals of color. His analysis pursuits embrace the visible tradition of Hip Hop, Afrofuturism and politics, Visual Literacy, Horror, and the EthnoGothic, and Speculative Design and its functions to visible rhetoric. He was additionally co-editor of the 2016 Eisner Award-winning assortment The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (Rutgers) and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. He is co-founder and organizer of the MLK NorCal’s Black Comix Arts Festival in San Francisco and in addition SOL-CON: The Brown and Black Comix Expo on the Ohio State University.
Professor John Jennings informed UC Riverside’s web site “Marvel’s motto is that their comics are supposed to show us the ‘world outside our windows.’ However, that window has really only shown a very narrow view of what our society is like. I was thinking of Toni as our point-of-view character; much like Chris Claremont used Kitty Pryde as a new perspective on the lives of the Uncanny X-Men. I wanted to show the viewers a new window and hopefully a new way of seeing.”
Silver Surfer: Ghost Light,and is about within the fictional upstate New York city Sweetwater, a fictional city with priority, it appeared in brief tales by the late Henry Dumas, a civil rights participant, who was killed by police in New York in 1968 on the age of 33. Dumas’s work was disseminated posthumously by Toni Morrison and Eugene Redmond and the brand new character of Toni Brooks is meant as a homage to her. With the return of Dr Harper to Earth, in future points, he’ll uncover that he has been useless for ten years, and must take care of all of the modifications – good and dangerous.
Where he has been, what he has been doing, that is a job for challenge 2… additionally as beforehand revealed by Bleeding Cool, to be revealed in June 2023, My Super Hero Is Black is an illustrated textual content by John Jennings and Angélique Roché trying on the historical past of Black comedian e-book characters and creators at Marvel Comics, in hardcover type, being revealed by Simon & Schuster.
Angélique Roché, is an lawyer, journalist, producer, host, moderator, voiceover artist, working for Harper’s Bazaar, NBC News, Black Girl Nerds, Syfy Wire, Marvel, Nerdist, and Rewire News. In addition to producing interviews, internet hosting reside occasions and crimson carpets, and moderating panels she is presently the host of Marvel Entertainment’s Marvel’s Voices podcast. She can also be a contributor to and consulting editor of the Marvel’s Voices comics anthology sequence (2020 – Present) and is a co-host and producer of The Women of Marvel podcast. In 2021 she voiced the horror quick Diary of a Mad Black Werewolf created by Mark Cheng. The quick is an adaptation of the graphic novel of the identical identify by artist Micheline Hess. Angélique acquired a BA in Print Journalism from Southern University and A&M College, her Juris Doctorate from the Southern University Law Center, and a Legal Letters Masters in International and Comparative Law from The George Washington University Law School. In addition, she is a graduate of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale and the Princeton Alumni Corps fellowship for non-profit professionals.
My Super Hero Is Black Hardcover – June 1, 2023
by John Jennings (Author), Angelique Roche (Author)#1 New York Times bestselling writer John Jennings and acclaimed producer Angélique Roché illuminate a few of the most vital Black creators and characters by way of Marvel Comics historical past. From the introduction of Black Panther within the Sixties and writer Stan Lee’s early efforts at addressing systemic racism, to the groundbreaking work of creators like Billy Graham, Christopher Priest, Reggie Hudlin, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, My Super Hero Is Black gives a wealthy examination, celebration, and historic overview of Marvel’s Black characters and creators. It additionally contains accounts from distinguished Black creators and luminaries about their private relationships with Marvel tremendous heroes. Presented by John Jennings—the notable comics scholar, illustrator, editor, author, trainer, writer, and #1 New York Times bestselling writer—and Angélique Roché—the acclaimed content material creator, producer, and the favored host of Marvel Entertainment’s Marvel’s Voices podcast—this milestone work is destined to change into a traditional and can converse to generations of comics followers and storytellers.
SILVER SURFER GHOST LIGHT #1
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(W) John Jennings (A) Valentine De Landro (CA) Taurin Clarke
Toni Brooks and her household have moved into the quiet city of Sweetwater. But nothing is sort of what it appears of their new residence. What thriller did Toni and her household unravel that may name upon the Sentinel of the Spaceways – the Silver Surfer?! And simply who, or what, is GHOST LIGHT? Eisner Award winner JOHN JENNINGS and artist VALENTINE DE LANDRO (Bitch Planet) introduce a brand new Marvel tremendous hero over 50 years within the making!
Rated T+In Shops: Feb 01, 2023 SRP: $4.99SILVER SURFER GHOST LIGHT #2
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(W) John Jennings (A) Valentine De Landro (CA) Taurin Clarke
A GHOST FROM THE PAST RETURNS! The Silver Surfer thought he buried his pal Al Harper years in the past – however he thought unsuitable! Can the Surfer save Al from succumbing to his newfound cosmic talents? And who or what remodeled Al into the otherworldly Ghost Light?
Rated T+In Shops: Mar 08, 2023 SRP: $3.99SILVER SURFER GHOST LIGHT #3
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(W) John Jennings (A) Valentine De Landro (CA) Taurin Clarke
Surfer and Ghost Light are caught within the crossfire between the Stranger and A.I.M.! But what do these villainous forces need from our heroes? And why do they give the impression of being so totally different? Get prepared for a contemporary twist on these traditional Marvel villains!
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