IN STORES NOW: "Pilot Season: Seraph #1"

Chicago Bears Pro-Bowl linebacker and comics fan Lance Briggs teams up with Phil Hester to take a stab at making his own book...

Start the Day off Right w/Napolean the Legend and La Femme Nakita

Texas is so full of rappers that I found one on a video for DMV'er Napolean Da Legend. He picked up La Femme Nakita for his "riding- around-the- hood-rapping" video Can't Help Myself, where she proceeds to earn the lift by dropping a few bars...

PREVIEW: Agents of WTF

Quick album (p)Review: "The Golden Age" by DPRTMNT

The intro to Canadian hip hop duo DPRTMNT's 22 track album The Golden Age reveals that their name is based on the Canadian superscience agency that produced Wolverine and Alpha Flight. So the nerdcore code says I at LEAST had to give them a try and recommend some good tracks for your hard drive...

"It's Funny: People used to give my mother a hard time, now my President is Black and his name's as hard as mine." -Talib Kweli

#nsfw PREVIEW: Kemette: Sword of Pharoahs

Wanna read a comic starring a naked Egyptian warrior chick? Who doesn't, right? Make sure your boss isn't looking, and peep these pages from Action Bunny Comix's Kemette. But then again, if you're working on Black Friday, eff your boss...

#BlackFriday is #PhoenixJonesFriday at GhettoManga!

Okay, I just decided... I'm offering prints of this Phoenix Jones piece I made! Get Dark Phoenix Jones FREE with a subscription to GhettoManga Quarterly or just $7 a la carte!

PREVIEW- "BKLN BAD #2"

The dark super-prison drama comic BKLN BAD is back, and this preview gives us a look at Devil Man, a second generation super hero thug locked up in the world's toughest prison: Brooklyn.

PREVIEW- Z-Girl and the 4 Tigers

Just read some online preview pages for this indie comic Z-Girl and the 4 Tigers by Writer Jeff Marsick and Artist Kirk Manley. Z-girl is an unkillable bad-ass in command of a quartet self-reincarnating soldiers charged to protect the world from things that go bump in the night. Looks preeeetty dope...

Album (p)Review: "Volume Control" by Vicious Cycle #nowPlaying

The ladies of Vicious Cycle are back on that microphone bullyball shit with their sophomore offering Volume Contol...

Cyclops VS T'challa: FIGHT!!! (sorta)

Okay, so I have no particular evidence that the Black Panther appears in Astonishing X-men #44, but I'm pretty sure that if T'challa walked into his local comic shop and saw this cover, Storm would have some serious 'splainin' to do...

ILLTone + Shade Cobain = Blacktivity

I've been a fan of Illtone for a minute (via the Detroit area crew the Lyricists), so when he dropped the link to Blacktivity, his new EP with beatsmith Shade Cobain, I HAD to check it out!

Dreaming of @AlkhemiJones

It's been a long while since I laid eyes on Alkhemi Jones, but absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? Sigh... here's some youTubery to tide me over for your musical enjoyment ...

Help us choose the cover to the next issue!

 

Nah, you didn't miss it... I'm still putting together the Undead Celebs issue of GhettoManga Quarterly, and I could use your help. Vote on which of these versions of Howard Russell's Thriller cover you like better...

the King City Trade Paper Back is GO! (peep the cover & release date)

yes... I have all twelve issues of Brandon Graham's urban fantasy King City. Yes, I am still buying the trade when it comes out...

"Being realistic is the fastest path to mediocrity" -LeSean Thomas

For all my fellow LeSean Thomas fans, here's a teaser to the doc LeS has been promising us, chronicling his time building and destroying with his fellow animation savants in South Korea. If you think you're not a fan of LeSean Thomas, check the credits of the best American cartoons of the last decade, and you'll realize you were one of us all along...

PREVIEW- X-factor #227

I gotta say, this preview of X-factor #227 is pretty educational. For one thing, the team looks as good as ever in the hands of veteran X-scribe Peter David and artist Leonard Kirk (Captain Britain and MI:13, World War Hulk - Warbound). I wouldn't have thought it possible, but Kirk actually makes Hangman look awesome, and he's particularly sympathetic in this preview as well... Y'know, for a walking symbol of hate crime...

PREVIEW- Starborn #12 (Final Issue)

Yeah, you missed it: Starborn #12 brings Stan Lee's little shared-universe science hero books to a close. But hey, peep the dope art in this preview by your man Khary Randolph and cop the trade...

In Stores Now- Mr. Terrific # 3

 I've gotten lots of feedback about the new Mister Terrific reboot, and pretty much all of it was bad. Everyone who mentioned the art of Gianluca Gugliotta hated it... He's not drawing the art on #3 (no matter what this cover says), so I'm curious how people will like the new guy...

PREVIEW- "Avengers Origins: Luke Cage" one-shot

We love Luke Cage here at GhettoManga (I know I do!), so when I saw this preview on CBR, I knew I'd hafta swipe it for you to check out!

#NowPLAYING: Playdough + Heath McNease "Wed, White and Wu" #WuTangisForTheChildren

If you like a little fun with your hip hop, catch a couple emcees who take it very seriously in Playdough and Heath Mc Nease.
Peep their new mixtape Wed, White and Wu below...

Moebius and Jodorowsky's "Incal" adapted into animated feature? Well, not exactly...

The classic Moebius and Jodorowsky graphic novel series The Incal should be adapted for film by french animator Pascal Blais.

Start the day off Right w/ Labtekwon

TGIF brethren! Here's Special by Labtekwon to help you sharpen your spit for whatever escapades you got planned for the weekend...

If only it was this easy...

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Preview- "THROWD: Goth Damned" by @Erik_Reeves

Erik Reeves' angel of vengeance Zasha Brown is back in Throwd: Goth Damned. The Indyplanet page doesn't have preview art, but I copped these wordless pages via the magic of google! Just put on some good Southern Hip Hop and pretend you're watching a movie trailer...

Comicbook World #61- Millions Die from Mind-Controlling Parasites

This is not a hoax or an imaginary story! An airborne mind-controlling fungus that turns its victims into suicidal mindless zombies is responsible for multiplied millions of deaths in the Washington DC area alone, according to Mike Raupp, an entomologist at the University of Maryland.

Did you read "Zombies VS Robots: Undercity"?

Anybody out there read Zombies VS Robots: Undercity? There wasn't much fanfare when this book was coming out over the summer, but the preview pages look AWESOME...

In Stores Now: Voodoo #2

I always liked Voodoo from Jim Lee's sci-fi superhero comic WildCATs, so I guess I should be reading the new Ron Marz- helmed reboot, Voodoo, right? Here's some preview pages...

New Video: "Kain't Moov Nuthin" - Heath McNease and For Beat's Sake

Yeah, I'm rocking the crap outta this fresh-to-death Heath McNease video Kan't Moov Nuthin'... what of it, tough guy?

New Video: MED + Madlib "Blaxican"

These days, if I hear M.E.D got something new out, I check for it, and of course Madlib achieved "name you can trust" status a long time ago. Therefore, peep Blaxican, the brand new video from MED's Upcoming album Classic... 

PREVIEW: Secret Avengers #18

I haven't bought a single issue of Secret Avengers, but I promise you if I see this alternate cover of Secret Avengers #18 (which parodies Frank Quitely's hella tight cover to New X-men #114, that doubled as the cover to the collection New X-Men, Vol. 1: E is for Extinction) by Larry Stroman the next time I'm at my comic shop, I guarantee you that they will get my three dollars. Oh yeah, the interiors by Warren Ellis and Michael Lark don't suck either...

Cover art and Trailer: "White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in comic Books"

Hell yes! This is a documentary I've been waiting on...

IN STORES NOW: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #3

I had no idea this new Ninja Turtles series was out there! Written by TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman no less! And no, that's not a color misprint: the turtles all wore red masks until they made the leap to television, tough guy! Anways, here's some preview pages...

I must have a Napoleon Complex...

Have you ever listened to this dude Napoleon Da Legend? I never heard of him until very recently, but this DMV area rhymer is working his way up my rap rankings...

NERD ALERT: Fresh Animation about the brain

Yeah, I'm on my nerd shit right now, so here's a dope animated lecture about the misconceptions and functions of the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

Start the Day off Right w/ Vicious Cycle & Von Pea

The lovely ladies of Vicious Cycle (that's Money Stax and Neeky Devero to you, fella!), PLUS Von Pea from Tonya Morgan PLUS Stevie Wonder as sampled on the track by Lexzyne Productions EQUALS the new VC track Made to Love... 

start the Day off Right w/ Napoleon Da Legend

"You cats lunchin', rappin' about nothin'. Steady blaming the game when you causin' the malfunction" 
-Napoleon Da Legend

Download the new Battlemasterz Motion Comic "Back in the Day"

Those DORMWORLD dudes recently dropped a fresh motion comic for their hip hop martial arts hero comic Battlemasterz! Peep...

Immortal Technique + Dilla = Toast to the Dead

Here's a little something from that dude Immortal Technique (over a track by the immortal J. Dilla)...

(P)REVIEW: "A Smart Black Boy: The Sonic Inception" by Blctxt Contxt

It's my anniversary today (yeah, I'm married. sorry yamps!), so maybe it's an appropriate time to be so impressed by a sweetheart rap song about a budding romance that never quite got a chance to take root, and maybe it's not. But dammit, this song Goodbye off Blctxt Contxt's (his artsy way to spell "Black Text Context") new EP A Smart Black Boy: The Sonic Inception is my new shit...