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]
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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.
Comment by WittyAdlibs — April 20, 2008 #
ha, that’s funny. and, very true.
Comment by thinctank — April 21, 2008 #
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.
Comment by WittyAdlibs — April 21, 2008 #
shiiiiit…lol.. so true
Comment by nadidadi — April 22, 2008 #
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?
Comment by WittyAdlibs — April 22, 2008 #
and the owner of complex magazine is maeeied to a black women.
Comment by daniel — May 28, 2008 #
and the owner of complex magazine is married to a black women.
Comment by daniel — May 28, 2008 #