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AMC Develops Black Lives Matter Book 'They Can't Kill Us All' For Series
Wesley Lowery's ground-breaking 2016 bestseller They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice is coming to television AMC announced that the nonfiction book has been ordered to development as a potential dramatic series LaToya Morgan (Into the Badlands, Turn: Washington's Spies) will serve as series writer, and will[...]
If Only Ferguson Was Really Like Action Comics
On the anniversary of the shooting of the unarmed teenager Michael Brown by a policeman in Ferguson in the USA, there have been more protests One teenage was shot, hospitalised and arrested, after he is alleged to have shot at an unmarked police car, after a nearby shooting. Elsewhere, a group of young black men were attacked[...]
Fox News Compares Last Month's Superman To Ferguson
And it breaks out into violence. And Fox News has just noticed in an article originally titled "Superman Literally Bashes Police In Ne Comic" and now called "Superman fights the police in new comic paralleling Ferguson riots"  And have been asking around. First they talk to Midtown Comics, over the road from the news channel's headquarters and in[...]
Free On Thanksgiving, In The Light Of Ferguson: Genius #1
When Top Cow published the mini-series-in-a-month Genius, it coincided with the first uprisings in Ferguson Bleeding Cool couldn't help compare the two. And with recent scenes again filling the headlines, here is the original first issue of the mini-series, free on Bleeding Cool The collection will be published in April. When Top Cow published the mini-series-in-a-month[...]
Bill Purcell "Quits" San Diego Comic Con
He may call himself a "Comic Con Regular Committee member" and certainly shows evidence that he was on the committee for San Diego Comic Con and Wondercon, but Bill Purcell wants to let everyone know that he wasn't expelled from the Committee, but he quit. After a series of tweets about the situation in Ferguson which[...]
Bill Purcell Vs. The Comic Book Internet Over Ferguson
Go to CCI official website for factual information." Which is probably a good thing, as he has a few words to share regarding the Ferguson situation, currently reigniting on the streets Okay, lots and lots of tweets and retweets making his case. Michael Brown was a thug He got Justice A bullett American Justice 38[...]
To Cop Or Not To Cop In Pop Culture – Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh
Adi Tantimedh writes: In the past week, the biggest thing happening in America has been the police siege of Ferguson, Missouri Social media has given a fuller account than mainstream media of the lies, contradictions and outright violations of the law and the US Constitution that the Ferguson police department has committed to intimate and suppress[...]
Fanboy Rampage: Ulises Farinas Vs. Yale Stewart Over Charity Wallpapers(UPDATE)
He writes, Every fucking time there's some big tragedy, this dude makes a wallpaper to benefit (insert charity) and it just looks like a shameless ploy at self promotion. Instead of making a cutesy little wallpaper of DC heroes you don't own, supporting media entities that already ignore brown people, that have news companies that spin a[...]
'Genius' – The Most Topical Comic Being Published In America Right Now
And Ferguson, Missouri has seen a similar scenario playing out over recent days. The shooting and killing of an unarmed black teenager walking away from a unnamed policeman has seen police tooling up like an occupying force to deal with protestors, Protestors being referred to as animals, SWAT teams being assembled to deal with disturbances that have then escalated into[...]