After all this time, there still aren't enough Black superheroes. In recent years, major comic publishers like Marvel have experimented with promoting some of their Black characters to bigger roles (making Sam Wilson Captain America, for instance) but those changes often proved temporary and thus can't compare to the power of creating whole new heroes. Milestone Media's four-year run in the '90s remains the benchmark for original Black crimefighters whose identities and backgrounds were central to their power, not coincidental. Read More...
“People were surprised when I told them I was going to tape my special in San Francisco. That’s the most politically correct city in the world,” comedian Anthony Jeselnik says in an exclusive trailer for his new Netflix special, Anthony Jeselnik: Thoughts and Prayers. “Not when I’m on stage it’s not.” Jeselnik, a veteran of Comedy Central’s roasts and host of 2013’s The Jeselnik Offensive, is known for his morally bankrupt stage persona, and that persona is cranked up to full volume in the trailer: “Last year, my mom should have been celebrating her 60th birthday,” he says. Read More...
Image Credit: Trae Patton/NBCYesterday, NBC announced that its long-running—and sometimes possessed-character featuring—soap opera Days of Our Lives had been renewed for two more years, with an option for an additional third year. The new contract ensures that the daytime drama will be on the air through at least September 2013. And no surprise, the news corresponded with a milestone for the show—its rather amazing 45th anniversary of being on the air. Read More...
