{"id":131464,"date":"2016-09-09T03:51:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T03:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/09\/black-lightning-to-come-to-tv.html"},"modified":"2016-09-09T03:51:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T03:51:49","slug":"black-lightning-to-come-to-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/09\/black-lightning-to-come-to-tv.html","title":{"rendered":"Black Lightning to come to TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Isabella's 1977 creation, Black Lightning (one of the first significant African-American superheroes at DC) has never quite gotten the prominence I wish he had. Perhaps it's, in retrospect, because he ended up being sort of a social justice warrior (in a very preachy era), or because he was an adult family man \/ educator in his background, or because the comics world even in the late 70s wasn't quite ready for a solo black hero (he came out right about the time that Luke Cage had to change to a team-up book with Iron Fist), or because in later times people felt uncomfortable about calling him out as a black person (even though that was meant as a badge of pride when he started).<\/p>\n

Still, he's had a lot of interesting run in his career, and even served as Secretary of Education under the Lex Luthor presidency (something I doubt we'll see in the TV series). It will be interesting to see if the new Fox show actually takes a more adult character with a family, and how he fits into whatever universe Berlanti decides to make over on the Fox network.<\/p>\n

More background: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Lightning<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n‘Black Lightning’ DC Superhero Series In Works From Greg Berlanti, Mara Brock Akil & Salim Akil<\/a><\/span>
\nEXCLUSIVE: In a pairing that resembles a superhero team-up, I have learned that Greg Berlanti, king of the CW’s DC universe, has partnered with The Game and Being Mary Jane creator Mara Brock…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Tony Isabella's 1977 creation, Black Lightning (one of the first significant African-American superheroes at DC) has never quite gotten the prominence I wish he had. 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