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Get Your First Look at the ‘Black Panther’ Comic Written by Ta-Nehisi Coates



Just this past September we received word that The Atlantic correspondent and author of “Between the World and Me” Ta-Nehisi Coates would be writing a year-long issue of “Black Panther” for Marvel Comics. In December, we got our first look at some of that project’s concept art along with an update from Coates himself, but now, with the inaugural issue about to hit comic book stores, we have a solid look at the finished product. The first-look pages come courtesy of one of Coates’ articles for The Atlantic, giving readers a bonus insight into his writing process and the formation of the comic.

For Coates, writing “Black Panther” was the culmination of a long-standing obsession with Marvel comics. Issues of “X-Men” and “Spider-Man” still hold a place in his heart and mind, and were clearly formative in his youth. Though Coates had to, admittedly, switch gears between writing as a journalist and penning a comic book story, his approach at its core wasn’t all that different. He talks about that method at length in The Atlantic article.

Here’s just a brief sample of Coates talking about the opportunity to write “Black Panther” and what it meant to him:

Some of the best days of my life were spent poring over the back issues of The Uncanny X-Men and The Amazing Spider-Man. As a child of the crack-riddled West Baltimore of the 1980s, I found the tales of comic books to be an escape, another reality where, very often, the weak and mocked could transform their fallibility into fantastic power. That is the premise behind the wimpy Steve Rogers mutating into Captain America, behind the nerdy Bruce Banner needing only to grow angry to make his enemies take flight, behind the bespectacled Peter Parker being transfigured by a banal spider bite into something more.

On the fight against HIV and AIDS—and on the people who really started the conversation.

Yesterday, at Nancy Reagan’s funeral, I said something inaccurate when speaking about the Reagans’ record on HIV and AIDS.

Since then, I’ve heard from countless people who were devastated by the loss of friends and loved ones, and hurt and disappointed by what I said. As someone who has also lost friends and loved ones to AIDS, I understand why. I made a mistake, plain and simple.

I want to use this opportunity to talk not only about where we’ve come from, but where we must go in the fight against HIV and AIDS.

To be clear, the Reagans did not start a national conversation about HIV and AIDS. That distinction belongs to generations of brave lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, along with straight allies, who started not just a conversation but a movement that continues to this day.

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45 Years Ago: Jim Morrison Moves to Paris
By Jeff Giles March 11, 2016 1:38 PM



Jim Morrison‘s future with the Doors was clouded in uncertainty as 1970 faded into 1971, but all involved knew things couldn’t continue the way they’d been going. Seeking a change and hoping to reorient himself emotionally and creatively, he left the U.S. for a sabbatical in Paris on March 11.

As tended to be the case with some of Morrison’s more memorable decisions, the timing came at an inconvenient time for the Doors. The band had been ensconced in the studio since late 1970, working in the tracks for what would become their L.A. Woman album — and although sessions had been completed by the spring of 1971, the record was still being mixed when Morrison departed for Paris. While his bandmates might have wished he’d waited for the project to be finished, they knew he was unwell.

“In that photo you can see the impending demise of Jim Morrison,” Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek later said of the L.A. Woman cover shoot. “He was sitting down because he was drunk. A psychic would have known that guy is on the way out. There was a great weight on him. He wasn’t the youthful poet I met on the beach at Venice.”

Morrison’s drinking had indeed gotten out of control during the L.A. Woman sessions — he was said to consume dozens of beers in a day, and was having problems completing lyrics and vocal tracks — and at first, it seemed like Paris might be part of the cure for what ailed him. After meeting up with longtime companion Pamela Courson at an apartment they’d rented in the city, he underwent at least a partial lifestyle change, walking the streets and losing some of the excess weight he’d put on in recent months.

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ORLANDO, Fla. — How would Ted Cruz feel about Vice President Carly Fiorina?

“Let’s win the nomination first,” came the response — from Mrs. Fiorina.

“I’m sorry, senator,” Mrs. Fiorina interjected, “I just have to say — ”

She suggested that Mr. Trump was afraid to debate Mr. Cruz if the field thinned. She noted that Mr. Cruz had “never talked about spray tans or body parts, or hurled insults.”

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/03/11/a-ted-cruz-carly-fiorina-ticket-not-so-fast/?_r=0