Luke Cage: A One-Man Harlem Renaissance - ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews

Here is a great article charting the character development of Marvel Comics, Luke Cage - Power Man. I've always like him. He is one of the first major black superheroes. Watching the history of the character is to watch the evolution of how black men have been portrayed in the mass media over the past 40 years. I agree with the last paragraph of the article:

Almost forty years after his creation, Cage has managed to become a rising star. Respected by Marvel's greatest hero, led the foremost super-hero team, and now he's in charge of whipping villains into heroes in Jeff Parker and Kev Walker's 'Thunderbolts.' Not a bad run for a guy who started out as a Harlem gangbanger and blaxploitation cash grab, is it?

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Luke Cage: A One-Man Harlem Renaissance - ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews

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Fall of the She-Hulks

I'm not sure if everyone knows about it but the Hulk does have a daughter - she in the proper Marvel Universe from the future. Here is a great interview with writer Jeff Parker about what happens next with the character.

Jeff Parker throws Lyra in the deep end with FALL OF THE HULKS: THE SAVAGE SHE-HULKS | Marvel.com News | Marvel.com

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Marvel Hotline: Jeff Parker on Fall of the Hulks: Red Hulk #1

Here is an interview with Jeff Parker about the Fall of the Hulks series.



Jeff Parker discusses FALL OF THE HULKS: RED HULK #1 in this episode of Marvel Hotline! | Marvel.com News | Marvel.com

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