Monday, May 25, 2009

Benson & Glass on 'Luke Cage: Noir'

Marvel Comics has been navigating the seas of genre-writing for 70 years now—but it was not until earlier this year that the superheroes of the Marvel Universe stepped into a world unlike any What If or alternate timeline—they went 'Noir'. And now, Luke Cage, a character born during a different era of genre writing is getting his second comeuppance in recent years with a Noir mini-series. Luke Cage Noir, an August-debuting four issue mini-series written by Mike Benson and Adam Glass with artwork by Shawn Martinbrough, sets one of Marvel's A-list African American characters in an era of American history infamous for its practices of prohibition and racial segregation. If you’re not familiar with his work, Adam Glass is a relatively new voice in comics; he and Benson are working together currently on the Deadpool: Suicide Kings mini-series.