Michael Davis: Mr. Anderson…
A nice kid with excellent taste in illustration makes good.
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Love: A Comic Book Story
Ask 20 people to define “Love”, you’ll get 20 definitions. Here’s mine. I feel love is measured in how you’re treated when things go wrong, not when everything is okay. It’s one thing to say something in a joyous ceremony yet another when faced with real life. People tend to balk the moment it gets…
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Dear AT&T: Static on the line is a GOOD thing
With the success of Black Panther, why is DC and Warner Brothers ignoring Static Shock?
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Batton Lash: The Best of Us
I have a long running tradition of giving my readers a gift on my birthday. That gift was usually a piece about an amazing person. Yesterday was my birthday— this was to run then, though I wish it would have never run. It did not post yesterday because I was killed on my birthday and…
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Black Lightning Gets It Right
As high-ranking executives at the most famous record company in the world, it was essential for us to project the utmost professionalism at all times. We talked in hushed tones nodding politely at staff whom, when we approached lowered their heads once pass the whispered comments began. Denys Cowan and I were walking the halls…
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The “Black Panther” Problem
Black Panther has seven Academy Award nominations. Damn. I saw Marvel’s game changer the first week it was in theaters. I stopped going to movies during the first-week decades ago, but I know so many people who directly or indirectly had some input. I wanted to check it out asap. Black Panther did something few…
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Michael Davis: Stan Lee – The Man Now And Forever
(In honor of The Man’s passing, Michael Davis asked us to rerun his column from last year. We are happy do to so. —Ye Olde Editor) No Sex On The Good Ship Lollipop, part 3 From our last installment… The Los Angeles neighborhood of Westwood is home to The University of Southern California, better known…
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Michael Davis: Confessions of An Uppity Negro, Chapter 1
I am lucky. I am a con man. I am a fraud. I am uppity. Let me explain…
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Michael Davis: The Truth About Harlan Ellison And The Lie He Told Us All
Note number 1: I wrote this first part in 2014. What’s below took me two weeks as I’ve been battling depression blah blah blah blah poor me etc. Twenty minutes after I first met Harlan Ellison he handed me a signed blank check. I’ll get back to that. I found out what kind of friend…
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Michael Davis: Hello. Goodbye.
This is my last ComicMix article. Pity. This place saved my fragile sanity on more than one occasion and that’s not a joke. I suffer from severe depression, and although I am doing well today I was doing better yesterday, and that’s why this farewell is a prelude of sorts warning young artists and writers…
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Michael Davis – Len Wein: A West Side Time Travel Story
I’ve said many times no one was more Milestone than Dwayne McDuffie. Denys Cowan’s larger than life idea created the company. Dwayne showed up with the details for that idea. Milestone has made an impact on the comics world to be sure. Most would say comics have had an impact on the world and I…
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Michael Davis: Milestone is Dead 2: Long Live Milestone
This article processes some hard truths many won’t like. The first part of this narrative, Milestone Is Dead, got a lot of people talking. Nothing and I mean nothing in that article was new. I’ve written about what and why I thought the holdup at Milestone was many times. The only thing that was new…
