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– Copper, 12 Years A Slave, and Desperate Housewives star Alfre Woodard will join the cast of Marvel’s upcoming Netflix series Luke Cage. Woodard will be playing the role of Mariah Dillard, cousin of Cage villain Cottonmouth and politician trying to rebuild Harlem. As much as I’m looking forward to Luke Cage, I’m a little apprehensive about each Netflix show having one character really trying to restore Manhattan after the battle from Avengers. I hope Lei Kung shows up in Iron Fist and is just really insistent that someone save the Lower East Side.
– In 1953, Seduction of the Innocent was a book by Dr. Frederic Wertham on the evil influences of comic books on America’s children. in 2015, “Seduction of the Innocent” is a comic by Ande Parks and Esteve Polls about a gory investigation by one of the FBI’s top agents as he tracks down some incredibly violent criminals, and the maniacs who are killing them off one by one. Passive aggressiveness really is a dish best served over the course of fifty years.
– Woody Harrelson has been cast as a bad guy in the upcoming War for the Planet of the Apes. I’ll lose my mind if he plays the same exact character form Zombieland but with a bloodlust for monkeys. A bananalust, I guess.
– Marvel’s December 2015 Solicitations are out and you can bet your bottom dollar we’ll do a stellar write up in our Soliciting Multiversity column. In the meantime, appreciate how, at this rate, “Secret Wars” is going to end at the literal heat death of the universe, fulfilling Jonathan Hickman’s creative vision.
– Here’s a The Jungle Book trailer. It’s got everything you could want. The hakuna matata song. Under the ocean. Ugh. My parents didn’t let me watch Disney movies, okay? Just enjoy the kickass tigers and panthers.
– In the best news of the week, Steam just greenlit CHIKARA: Action Arcade Wrestling. I wrote about CHIKARA a while ago, it’s a wrestling company based in Pennsylvania that is basically a comic book come to life. If Mortal Kombat was aimed at eight year-olds 9more so than it usually is) then it would be Chikara. Just replace Sub-Zero and Scorpion with a masked gentlemen from the 19th century and a time-traveling marching band leader who is also the son of the EPA agent from Ghostbusters. Their game, as shown by the screen caps on Steam, looks like it’ll be kind of similar to the WWE2k games but with more lightning and less costume alternatives for Triple H. Keep an eye out for it.
