Black Panther Cartoon Coming To BET
For some reason (probably because he’s black), Marvel character Black Panther has never quite gotten his due. Since being created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and debuting in a 1966 issue of Fantastic Four, he’s never achieved the marquee status of his peers, despite being the first major black superhero. Wesley Snipes tried for 15 years to turn the character into a movie, but all we got is three Blade movies instead.
Well now, BET executive Reginald Hudlin'who also started writing the Black Panther comic for Marvel in 2005'is bringing the icon to the small screen. In early 2009, a prime-time animated Black Panther series will debut on the BET network. And if the series is a success, you can bet the live-action movie (which John Singleton was recently rumored to be directing) won’t be far behind. After the jump, check out the trailer from 2006’s Ultimate Avengers 2: Rise of the Panther, one of BP’s rare TV appearances.
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[Variety]
WittyAdlibs April 20, 2008 at 12:15 am
Oh this is easy, Black Panther hasn’t got his due for the same reason Black Women don’t get their due in Complex’s featured girls. Closet Racists/Bigots like yourselves.
thinctank April 21, 2008 at 2:37 am
ha, that’s funny. and, very true.
WittyAdlibs April 21, 2008 at 3:22 pm
For real, the only black women who get any play on Complex are Beyonce and Rihana, and they are as far from “real sistas” as it gets. Complex manages to talk about hip-hop culture everyday (which is african american) but manage to leave out our women in the girls section, how odd is that.
nadidadi April 22, 2008 at 9:02 am
shiiiiit…lol.. so true
WittyAdlibs April 22, 2008 at 3:17 pm
We don’t wanna see these anorexic and bulimic ass women Complex, I thought y’all would of learned from Sir Mix-a-lot, shit even hip-hop itself! Which MCs do you know that praise flat asses?
daniel May 28, 2008 at 8:23 pm
and the owner of complex magazine is maeeied to a black women.
daniel May 28, 2008 at 8:24 pm
and the owner of complex magazine is married to a black women.
Marcus March 29, 2009 at 1:20 am
Uuuhh… jealous much… None of you sound like your going to be the positive role models that these women are for young black women.
kenny June 16, 2009 at 10:46 am
The Black panther never got his due because of a couple of reasons, first he is a jungle character basically like Tarzan and Kazar no matter how advanced they sat Wakandan technology is i still never see the place as a big city. another reason is he is a foreigner and for the most part Americans cannot relate to him, Luke cage is more palatable to American audiences. last whenever a book is made with him his rogues gallery is lame-kiber the cruel,klaw, white gorilla lame