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Graphic Novel review: "WORLD OF HURT: The Thrill Seekers"

Yup. The World of Hurt: The Thrill Seekers" hardcover is every bit as awesome as you've dreamed it would be. And I got my copy last week...

Start the day off Right with Mi(ni)ster Blakes

Apparently things are looking up for one of my favorite emcees. "Since 2007, I've married, moved to Los Angeles and had a son..." Bavu announced in a cheerful email which also announced "a free 2012 anthem for you, your family and your friends called BIG Bright Future..." Check it out and cop the download below.

On the Road w/Playdough

Playdough released his latest album Hotdoggin last spring and has been on the road non-stop since. This video shows Playdough and Sean P(atrick) hitting the road after smashing the House of Blues in Dallas. Here's what it's like to be an indie rap star...

PREVIEW- Robocop: Road Trip

Long-time GhettoManga readers know I'm pretty robophobic. However, since he's half-machine, half-man and all cop, Robocop is cool with me. Peep these previews from the first two issues of Officer Murphy's new mini, Robocop: Road Trip...

INTERVIEW- Kool G Rap & Necro on Conspiracy Worldwide Radio

Kool G Rap is easily one of the most respected and iconic voices hip hop has ever seen. If you disagree with that, you're wack and it's all your fault. So anyways, G Rap and Necro sat down with CWR to fill the world in on the progress of their upcoming album The Godfathers set to drop this summer. In addition, they get real talking about SOPA and PIPA on some political shit, so you don't wanna miss this one...

PREVIEW: Richard Corben's "Murky World"

Here's a few preview pages from Richard Corben's fantasy comic Murky World, which originally ran in Dark Horse Presents.

PREVIEW: Infestation 2 #1

Y'all like event crossovers, right? Well Infestation 2 #1 has Raph from the Ninja Turtles, Optimus Prime, and Snake Eyes all on the same cover! Change your pants and peep the free preview below...

The Museum of Uncut Funk presents a great Black Animation Exhibit!

The fine folks over at the Museum of Uncut Funk have an impressive animation collection which includes original production cels and drawings, limited edition cels, publicity cels and collectibles featuring Black animation characters from 1970's Saturday morning cartoons, television shows, films and feature films. Peep this brief video that puts the 70's era black cartoon revolution in historical cultural context...

PREVIEW: "Zombie Dickheads Are NOT Coming to Get You" by Chris Moreno

I was excited to find out that my frequent cover artist Zees' brother Chris Moreno was going to be at STAPLE this year. So, I decided to go diving in his deviantArt gallery and found this SWEET 8 page preview of Chris's zombie comedy Zombie Dickheads are Not Coming to Get You. This one-shot features a quartet of constantly quarreling zombies who have managed to remain sentient despite their obvious post mortem condition because they... well, just read the preview...

Damn... Brandon Graham made my day...

I could make a full time job just writing posts geeking about Brandon Graham (if someone would pay me, that is), but I try not to come off as a total Stan... but then he posts a Devil In a Blue Dress comic page from his sketchbook, as if he is specifically TRYING to set me off...

T'ing of the Week is back!

Foo Bandana Print by Melita Curphy.

Am I the only person that NEEDS to have this bandana in his life?

Interviews: Slaughterhouse, Copywrite, Apollo Brown, Homeboy Sandman and more on ConspiracyWorldwideRadio

Slaughterhouse with some white dude...

Our friends across the pond continue to interview the hip hop personalities I'm interested in hearing from. This episode features the mighty Slaughterhouse crew, who are in the process of recording their new record with Eminem. They also got rap cats like Danny Brown and Copywrite on this week's show. Apollo Brown speaks on his upcoming record with venerated wordsmith OC. They also got underground hip hop luminary Homeboy Sandman on this one. A loaded show, to be sure since they also bump generous amounts of hip hop music for your consideration. This is hip hop radio as it was meant to be...

Start the day off Right w/ M. Slago, Homeboy Sandman, Senica Da Misfit, and Playdough

Dallas-area Nashvillain, beatsmith and new dad [SALUTE] the mighty M. Slago dropped his new joint Attack the Wack!! last month/year or whatever and I missed it because I am not glued to the rap blogs, but don't sweat it... it's still dope now. Anyways here's my favorite track from that joint: WACK featuring better-than-your-man's raps by Homeboy Sandman, Senica Da Misfit and PlayDOUGh...

M.E.D's new track w/OhNo and European tour dates w/ Guilty Simpson

Whaddup, fam! Here's the video for War & Love (featuring OhNo!) from your boy M.E.D.'s latest album, Classic...

Two Words: BLADE! ANIME!

Peep the new trailer for Marvel's new anime-style Blade cartoon that's making it's debut on cable this Friday...

Sir Charles was hilarious on SNL!

Okay, so I accidentally watched Saturday Night Live while I was drawing last night... Charles Barkley was on, and a lot of it was surprisingly hilarious...

New Leonardo (TMNT) one-shot by Ross Campbell?!

2012 may just be a tipping point year for Ross Campbell. In addition to presiding over his critically-acclaimed indie books Wet Moon and Shadoweyes, and drawing Glory for a newly rechristened Extreme Studios, Ross has been tapped to draw a one shot starring Leonardo of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fame.

A message for Jean Grae. Plus, a song for you other people to listen to, or whatever...

PREVIEW- Black Panther #528

Kingpin done effed up now! Yeah, now that he got his own ninjas. he's tryin'a do a Halliburton on Wakanda... Oh, and Oeming smashed the art on this one...

Start the Day off Right w/Napoleon Da Legend & Crazy Al Cayne

Peep the video for Young World, off The Sugar Cayne Experiment Vol 1: Napoleon Da Legend, the excellent EP I reviewed last week. Watch the new video, then download the joint free.

PREVIEW- Shinku #4

Did somebody say Shinku? Yeah, Ron Marz's Samurai/ vampire-killer smash continues! Peep the preview below...

More VOODOO previews...

Worst. Lapdance. Ever!

Here's some more previews from the new adventures of everyone's favorite stripper/ alien superchick Voodoo, written by bad girl aficionado Ron Marz (Shinku, Witchblade). Peep samples from issues 3 (with Ron Marz creation Kyle Rayner) and 4...

PREVIEW- Thunderbolts #168

I haven't read Thunderbolts for a while, but they put Luke Cage on the cover again, so I'm interested! See how easy that was, Marvel? Anyways, peep a quick preview...

Napoleon Da Legend + Crazy Al Cayne = DOWNLOAD THIS!

OH SHNAP! Napoleon Da Legend and Al Cayne have dropped a dose of medicinal grade hip hop for Free Download in the form of The Sugar Cayne Experiment Volume 1:Napoleon Da Legend.

"My ego is Magneto, snatch your microphones and redirecting your guns..." -@7evenThirty

Shout out to the homie 7even Thirty who spammed me this morning with this track he did with producer Gensu Dean.

Word to @EdPiskor: The Hip Hop/ Comics Connection

The Hip Hop/Comic Book Connection by Ed Piskor

Immortal Technique + Mela Machinko = HELLYES!

Besides the fact that I adore Mela Machinko, this song (Natural Beauty, from his latest EP The Martyr) is a great introduction to Immortal Technique, for people who might not be able to dive into his sonic tirades head first, feel free to toe the water with this track...

Some Hilarious Humbuggery from Mela Machinko & Jean Grae (aka The @HellpitFaeries)

Vocalist Mela Machinko and her BFF the mighty Jean Grae (collectively known as the Hellpit Faeries) having some ~~good clean~~ fun lampooning the Christmas song Its the Most Wonderful Time as only they can...

"Gettin' older now, daughter three years old, plus the world's a little colder now..." -CientifiQ

Those sons of guns at DVZN Media hit my inbox with the latest video from Central Texas emcee CientifiQ, and I was drawn in by the Wu-tang sample and the blue collar sensibility. Peep Steel produced by A Better Tomorrow...

Wishlist: Strange Girl Omnibus

Here's something anybody would love to get for Christmas! And by "anybody" I mean ME!

start the day off Right w/Napoleon Da Legend

Napoleon Da Legend is easily my favorite new emcee (new to me, anyways) of this year. I don't know how long he's been rhyming, but he instantly impressed me with his golden-age-worthy lyricism and the breadth of his subject matter...

start the day off Right w/ StaHHR

More fire from the Empress...

PREVIEW: Saga #1 by Brian K Vaughn + Fiona Staples

After creating two of the illest comics concepts of the new millenium (namely Y: the Last Man and Ex Machina), Brian K. Vaughn has earned his spot on the "Name You Can Trust" list. So when I saw that he had a new creator-owned sci-fi/fantasy series coming from Image, I thought you might wanna know...

PREVIEW: "Sacrifice #1"

This looks dope. That dude Sam Humphries (Our Love Is Real) and newbie Dalton Rose dropped and independently distributed this dope urban fantasy based in Aztec history/lore. There's a gang of covers, and this one (the "Shadow Edition") is my favorite. Peep...

"It's all parts, all Heart and Soul. The red pill is irreversible..." -Playdough

If you've been paying attention at all you had to know this was coming... yeah, I love Playdough, and he loves rapping. It all works out. Here's the video for the title track off his latest album Hotdoggin'...

Deviant of the Day #112: Blunt Brown

Painter, Illustrator, emcee, and who knows what else... I can't overstate the skills of Pomona, California based phenom Blunt Brown and I don't intend to try. Here's some art...

Some good news (and bad news) for my wife

My wife loves Ross Campbell's genre-bending girl-centric OGN series Wet Moon, so she will be pleased to know that Ross has wrapped up volume 6. That's the good news... She won't like the bad news any more than I did, so I figure I'll soften the blow by showing some random artwork from the new joint first!