the Elemental

Black Vulcan

Real Name: Unknown

Group Affiliation: Justice League America 

(the Superfriends)

Power Set: Ability to manipulate lightning 

from his hands. 

Flight: transforms his lower body into pure energy, he becomes living lightning.  Can travel at the speed of light, spot weld microelectronics. Vulcan can go where ever light and electricity goes and even operate proficiently underwater.  Time travel is also within Vulcan's range of powers.  He fluctuates his body into pure energy in such a way that it opens a rift in space and time.

Like his comrade's Apache Chief and Samurai, Black Vulcan first appeared on the Superfriends cartoon. for that era Vulcan set the standard and opened the doors for the Black Superheroes of the right now.

He's also been locked into comedic roles and a target for so many jokes and hilarious cameos. Surprisingly  they've all been good for the most part.

And after all is said and done.  Vulcan still comes across as a legitimate Superhero.  At one time Alex Ross proposed to bring Black Vulcan into the Captain Marvel mythos.  Update him as a hero connected to Shazam.  DC rejected the idea. Imagine Black Vulcan painted by 

Alex the Great One Ross.  How can you not buy into that?  OK, they didn't like the way Ross was going with it.  So rework it! Suburban kid rescues little girl from collapsed drain enclosure; secret passageway...rock of eternity...seven deadly sins blah blah blah, 

speaks the new magic words _________and is transformed into Vulcan!  One of the champions of earth. Shazam is only one of the wizards so each wizard has a champion voila. Let's go fight some crime.

  

I also found out that DC alludes to Black Vulcan and Black Lightning being the same guy.  

Retcon if you will.

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check the outfit in the background

A rework is definitely what's called for. 

Because Super Volt needs some pants.

the Forgotten

Samurai

We all remember Saturday morning cartoons.   Captain Crunch Berries and the challenge of the Superfriends.  They were the coolest, most powerful super team on the planet and by God the most diverse.  With the edition of three guys I just knew were going to show up in a comic book somewhere, Apache Chief, Black Vulcan and Samurai,  the world famous Superfriends!

 ____ dunt ta da dunt dunt ta, dunt ta da. ___  

Don't the music just start playing in your head?  Yes?  No? 

For Samurai I bet it doesn't.  For these three to be ultra cool 

super exciting  cult classics they've had a hard row to hoe. 

Powers: Flight,  ability to control fire, wind and Ice.

Can become invisible, he's an unarmed black belt in some forms of martial arts he even has his own light saber. why didn't DC buy this guy from Hanna Barbera asap?

Well it all seems to have worked out for Samurai in these last couple of years.  He has two action figures and ................. maybe it's not going as good as it's suppose to.  But DC might have the license to the character now since he has made two appearances in DC comics and he's had two character copies of him in wind Dragon and the girl from Young Justice.  Also Samurai has two partners on the come up to mainstream media with him in Apache Chief and Black Vulcan.  

Man seems like two is this guys number.

The DCUC is a spot on rendition of the classic Samurai from the Superfriends with all the articulation that the line is commended for. The only thing that was wrong is that the arms couldn't cross his chest to make the classic Samurai pose. The bad side to it all though is to be taken seriously in today's comic and animation world, he's going to have to put on some pants 

(see custom figure beside him by: Iron Will).

Do I like samurai, yes, the figure, yes. Is Samurai going to get a title shot and a movie?

I'll let him tell you himself.

the ingenious new 52

Face Off

Well it seems that Marvel had or has a tiger manthing in their universe as well. Who knew that DC with their super creative powers would just take an old failed Marvel concept and put the new 52 spin on it and call it artistic spotlighted originality. Or in other words, the Bronze Tiger, even though the new BT looks just like Maneater with clothes on and a stupid over sized video game sword.

Anyway :(  Friday Face Off presents Maneater vs new Bronze Tiger.

May the stupidest design idea win.

Somebody tell me. Is Lycanthropy  an artistic story trope and or cliche 

that comic book writers and artist use when they can't get right?

Or is it just a formula that's plugged in cause geekdom is so hard up and desperate

that they can just put out trash and nerds lick it up?

suicide is NOT the answer

Faith

Looking and surfing thru cyber space 

and the crossroads of blogs that I pass thru I ran across this

http://comicsnerdling.blogspot.com/2013/05/re-suicide.html

I wanted to have something profound to say.

But what could I say to match the unfathomable wisdom

of the Most High God Jehovah?

... nothing ...

turn to the Lord and Creator of all things

amen.

Return of the Tiger

the complex equation

                                                   of an

International Operative

the DC comics site released the new 52 version of the Bronze Tiger to be debuted in Red Hood and the Outlaws. The amazing pencils revealed a meta human catman and well.....I lost it.  Betrayal, disappointment and controlled anger was the recipe that formulated my conversations and the immediate dropping of all comic book buying until I could see another color besides red. Yesterday the Reviewer told me that a human merc assassin named Ben is shown in a flashback training Jason Todd to become the Red Hood.

I said all of that to show you this picture of said assassin and see if we can break somethings down together. Let's see if we can attain the true identity of this guy and see what direction his story may go in.

1. His Teflon armor seems to be black and orange tiger stripes.

2. The Jewel he's holding seems to be the heart of Nanda Parbat. Seeing all the dead monks laying everywhere.

3. If that is monks of the temple, being able to fight on that level there's only a few folks in the DCU that are in that class and Benjamin Turner is one of them.

So could this be the Bronze Tiger before he becomes meta human? Could this be the beginning of an epic story. The epic I've been waiting on for years?  And if it is where will it be told from?

Me....I think  the Bronze Tiger should touch down in a mini series.  That's the only way to show and explain everything.  A real kick off would be an animated movie, oneshot combo pack. But Hell,  we all know that's just fan optimistic overflow. a damn Dream in other words.

Count down to Vertigo

Lace Up

Another drastic change on a DC classic character. When I first seen the new 52 concept I was like,  WHAT!?!  

Then my son looked at him and said

" They got him looking like MGK "

???    um mm.....who is that?

He's a Hip Hop artist. He flips open his laptop and shows me who MGK is.  I'm an Outkast,  Scarface,  Wu Tang kinda guy. But when I heard the kid rhyme it changed my whole outlook.  Wait wait wait..... For my man to make that cross reference and connect  the new outfit to what's currently going on right now  it made me think that maybe DC's attempt to make their characters current might not be to far off from right and what works for the new comic book readers out there.

I know your head is hurting right now like this guy. But right now the new younger ( out of character ) Green Arrow is pretty popular.  Dale and Gemini seem to like the show as well. So making Count Vertigo a younger different version might just connect this new 52 with DC's actual target audience.?.

For me,  the Young justice version has been the coolest version of the character yet. But that's just me. 

If they ( DC ) can make this new tough guy 52 Vertigo work I'm going to have to applaud this one. Cause what they did with my man Bronze Tiger's new look is criminal. I would have taken  new Vertigo's  outfit with a bandolier and broad swords to a fight every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

I'm still going Indy until the real BT comes back, but if we're still going to traverse this genre you better

Lace Up

Wonder Woman the movie

who could be
Princess Diana of Themyscira

Linda Carter

The superhero movie has already peaked in popularity and in the pockets of the movie going public. Avengers has shown that it's still Hella money to be made though, and DC is scrambling to get a Justice League movie in theaters before the novelty money goes dry. Well dry or not, I would still like to see a live action Wonder Woman movie hit the big screen. It seems like this would be the easiest of all the DC movies to do.

Since Wonder Woman's story is mythological and being an Amazon grounds Diana into something realistic ( South American Warrior Women ). The movie should start with Paradise Island and her origins, the contest of champions that set up her rival with the Cheetah and at the end of the movie leave the island with Steve Trevor to join the Justice League as the emissary ambassador of the Themyscira.

But first comes first

who could be wonder Woman?

Don't really know her but when I saw her picture, I was like maybe. She looks just like a young Diana. She was an actress on daytime soap opera's and one of those kid shows before that. Somebody out there in the blogoshere will have to tell me if she can act.

Ms Everything! 

This woman holds all the cards as far as I'm concerned. Don't know if she's Wonder Woman, but she could play any super heroine in my movie; for real though, she would be a perfect Ariel for a Thundarr the Barbarian movie.

well umm Kate has a super beautiful face and we know she can act but this body doesn't equal Amazon Warrior. When and if they do the movie, I hope DC remembers Diana is an Amazon. The real deal 6 foot 7 foot Brazilian Amazon. Pretty should only take you so far.

Now this chick right here. Gina Carano

Queen of the Octagon,  and sure enough thick wit it. Could she be the one?

I saw this fan made Wonder Woman poster and had to bring 

the topic to the table. 

Who could be Diana Prince

the 

Princess of Power

http://thebronzetiger.blogspot.com/2012/04/paradise-island-nubia.html