What do you think of Vertigo's Django Comic?

 Some of the spirited debate surrounding Tarantino's ultraviolent blaxploitation/spaghetti western Django Unchainedhas died down, but thankfully DC/Vertigo is keeping the party going by publishing an adaptation of Tarantino's original screenplay for the slavery era shoot-em-up. Here's some pages from issue 3, which is in stores already...

"I don't waste ink, n*gga I think! I drop megaton bombs more faster than you blink..." -the GZA #np

Yeah... My mind has been fixated on Liquid Swords, the classic hip hop album by the Gza (pronounced "jizza" if you didn't know... but he also answers to "the Genius"), for the last couple weeks... You may imbibe some Gza-directed youTubery while I drop a little blah blah...

preview MILESTONE FOREVER #1 (in storesTODAY!)

if your comic shop doesn't have Milestone Forever #1 on its shelves, call the NAACP on them and arrange some kind of protest, because obviously they don't care about black people!  Okay, maybe i shouldn't go all Kanye on 'em, but really... why ELSE wouldn't they stock this joint? the people have been waiting on this story for over a decade, and they went back and got the original players: Dwayne McDuffie, JP Leon, Mark Bright, Denys Cowen and more have returned to break you off 48 pages of funk, so stop playin', and click here for a free preview, courtesy of the fine folks at Newsarama. feel free to geek out with me in the comments, then go to your comic shop where you can cop this joint! for more new comics i recommend in stores today, click here...

holla!

samax.

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peep the MILESTONE FOREVER wrap-around cover

yo! Check out the cover of Milestone Forever #1, on sale February 3rd. This book wraps up the continuity of the original Milestone Universe characters HARDWARE, STATIC, ICON and BLOOD SYNDICATE. Milestone collaborators Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, John Paul Leon, MD Bright, and Chrisscross get together to set the stage for Milestone's future in the DC Universe. A story over a decade in the making!
holla!
-samax
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Milestone Returning in 2010

looks like DC is finally getting the ball rolling on the long-awaited return of the multicultural Milestone Universe characters. they'll be wrapping up the dangling Milestone U storylines in the unfortunately titled book Milestone Forever in preparation for the incorporation of the milestone characters into the regular DC universe. here's what i read on Dwayne McDuffie's facebook :
Milestone Forever gathers the original artists from Milestone’s launch titles: John Paul Leon, Mark Bright, Chris Cross and Milestone Founder Denys Cowan, to complete the tales told in the original runs of STATIC SHOCK, ICON, HARDWARE, SHADOW CABINET and BLOOD SYNDICATE. Milestone Editor in Chief Dwayne McDuffie reveals the final fate of each of Milestone’s launch characters in a bittersweet tale that chronicles the literal end of a universe, and the birth of something new, with major consequences for the future of the DC Universe.
it will be dope to see my favorite Milestone artists, JP Leon, Chris Cross, Denys Cowan and the rest repping these characters (Shadow Cabinet was my JOINT! but ya'll don't hear me...)
-gM