GENNDY TARTAKOVSKY (W/A/C) From the Award-Winning creator of Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack and Hotel Transylvania! On the mean streets of Harlem, shoes are big, shirts are large, bottoms are belled and crime is rampant! But in the heart of the city, the world’s hardest-working, smack-talking, chain-wearing super hero is on the street and on the case! And his rates are reasonable! He’s CAGE! and he’ll save your behind. Dig it!
>Devin Faraci: Why Luke Cage? What is it about this character that attracted you?
>Gennedy Tartakovsky: Well I grew up following most of the major titles like Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Avengers, etc. But I had also a lot of love for the smaller titles like Master of Kung Fu, Black Panther, The Defenders, Inhumans, and of course Power-Man and Iron Fist. I always liked the martial art aspect of Iron Fist with the raw street energy of Cage. I saw it in my head like Bruce Lee and Shaft hanging out together. And Cage was fun, I liked the idea of a down and out hero scrapping for work, love, and just trying to survive.
>Devin Faraci: You started working on this a decade ago. Is this series you picking up where you left off or did you start from scratch?
>Gennedy Tartakovsky: Listen it was only 8 years ago, not a decade! I’m picking up right where I left off but definitely improving it and refining it.
>Devin Faraci: Who initiated this return to Cage!? Was it you or did Marvel reach out? How did it happen?
>Gennedy Tartakovsky: Well I was doing press for Hotel Transylvania 2 and coincidently I found my thumbnails around the same time and thought that they still held up. Then on the press tour I kept getting questions about it so I thought for fun I would say “I’m willing to finish it if Marvel is still interested.” Sure enough it spread through the internet and the editor from Marvel contacted me.
>Devin Faraci: This book is set in the 70s. Will we see 70s versions of other Marvel favorites?
>Gennedy Tartakovsky: I don’t want to give anything away but YES!!
>Devin Faraci: Luke Cage is having a new moment in the sun because of Netflix. Will this series be aimed towards new readers or is it full of references aimed at people with Power Man and Iron Fist in their long boxes?
>Gennedy Tartakovsky: Well growing with those comics in the 70’s and 80’s I have a very strong fondness of that version of Power Man so my version is very rooted in that time, but I think it is totally fun and feels new. It was about making something entertaining with a character that I really liked. So I think it can appeal to young and old readers.
>Devin Faraci: How does comic storytelling differ from animation? With animation we see all the moments, while with comics so much of what happens occurs between the panels. Is that the big difference?
>Gennedy Tartakovsky: Well the biggest difference is that I can’t rely on sound as much as I do in animation. That’s a big one because I use sound to help enhance the mood, action, comedy, pretty much everything. So that’s a big element missing. And of course there is no movement so I try to create it with kinetic panels and layouts as well as fun energetic drawings. It’s unlike other comics I think because my influences are strongly based from animation and cartooning like Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Chuck Jones, and Tex Avery. So it’s quite different from comics today… I think.
Luke Sanchez
Source?
This is hype if true.
Jonathan Gray
B.M.D.
Ian Walker
...
Juan Campbell
>Blaxploitation Luke Cage by Genndy Is this the real life Is this just fantasy Caught in a landslide No escape from reality Open your eyes Look up to the skies and see I'm just a poor boy I need no sympathy (Because I'm) Easy come Easy go Little high Little low Any way the wind blows Doesn't really matter to me Mama Just killed a man Put a gun against his head Pulled the trigger, now he's dead Mama Life had just begun But now I've gone and thrown it all away MAMA OOOOOOO
Cooper Ward
>Samurai Jack (2016) looking promising
>Cage is finally getting released
There is only so much Genndy hype I can take!!
Michael Collins
Something horrible is going to happen to Genndy wont it ? theres too much good happening
Nolan Roberts
Guys, I... I think I want to buy a Marvel book.
Christopher Sanchez
Next best thing will be for Mcduffie's dumb widow to post the man's pitch for a Luke Cage series
Marvel what are you doing? Don't do something cool now, it ruins my memes.
Carson Jackson
It's only been a year since the announcement, Parlov was drawing some books in between then so he has to still draw it or finish I assume, this isn't like Battling Boy which took 5 years to come out.
Hudson Parker
Kek
Jack Gray
>Marvel greelights what is basically Action Hank >by Gennedy Oh my fucking god, I can't believe I'm actually going to buy a fucking Marvel book.
Daniel Myers
After all the bullshit police brutality it's nice to see some good things can happen for black people.
Adrian Thomas
Yeah, after last night a Luke Cage comic by the dude that made Dexter's Lab is really gonna fix the black community.
Dylan Gonzalez
I actually think it would've been the second season of SBT, but what're the chances we're getting THAT anymore?
Nathaniel Adams
I honestly thought this was long dead. Glad it's not.
Adrian Murphy
I'm hype.
Bentley Walker
Cool
Jason Peterson
So is Genndy just trying to do everything in his bucket list before his next project now? Because if so I certainly don't mind.
Nathan Rogers
>mfw the Mary Sue is gonna call Genndy racist and out of touch for making this comic
Sebastian Kelly
(((Tartakovsky)))
Christopher Young
Nope
Easton Richardson
They didn't mind Bendis writing his garbage.
Oliver Barnes
His last name sounds too ethnic. They wouldn't dare touch him.
Leo Hernandez
Why would you remind me?
Parker Harris
see Tartakovsky is a Jew whose family escaped the anti-semitic USSR Jews trump feminists every time
Adam Rogers
>>>>>>>>>>>>>marvel
Ryan Scott
I wonder what other projects he has half-finished that he might unearth.
I remember when this was announced oh-so long ago, glad it's finally seeing the light of day.
Camden James
is this gonna just be action hank the comic?
Kayden Clark
and? he makes entertaining shows I couldnt care less
Jackson Rodriguez
"Agction Henk! Wot hoppend tu yuir beard?!!?"
Tyler Sanders
kek
Hudson Perez
>improving it and refining it. Read marvel made me make it more PC
Still I'm hype
Blake Bell
It's not the beard on the outside that counts, it's the beard on the inside.
Jack Cooper
Don't worry thing with memes is they tend to smother smaller memes
Unless they ditch all the horrible stuff this won't overtake it.
Angel Taylor
Wait whats happening is this another of those dident do nothing things or was there some auctual brutality
Dylan Wright
Guy got wrestled to the ground and shot in the back. Another got shot in the face because he told an officer he had a Concealed Carry license while reaching for his wallet.
Then during the BLM protest these incidents inspired, a guy started sniping cops, until they suicide bombed him with a robot.
The entire situation is fucked.
Jason Lewis
the fuck let you in here, Sup Forumstard?
Brayden Nguyen
Well that first one is pretty daming cop fucked up and that second one sounds far to trigger happy
Still I wonder why people always assume this stuff is racially driven.
Tyler Brown
Well I suppose trigger happy is the wrong word he shot without full information.
But yeah if you have your weapon pointed at somebody you can safely wait until you see him grab a gun to take the shot
Blake Baker
I bet 5 bucks that these guys at least make a cameo in comic.
Brody Brown
>gets a Netflix show >they only fork out for a mini Well still better than Jess I guess.
Julian Rivera
Hey, here's an idea - why don't you fuck off back to your containment board?
In b4 HURR CROSS-BOARD POSTING Y U HAET FREEDOM OF SPEECH
I don't hate freedom of speech, I just hate stupid cunts with nothing to contribute to a discussion other than their tired, shitty memes.
Eli Brown
Bump for glorioso Genndy.
Benjamin Moore
That blurb is perfect, this is exciting. I wish Marvel would do a Bizarro Comics anthology equivalent with lots of retro-stylized fun strips by modern artists like this.
Aaron Turner
not him but you sound triggered as fuck. The entire Internet isn't your personal safe space faggot.
James Peterson
They did.
It was called Strange Tales. It was 3 issues.
Then they did Stange Tales II which was also 3 issues.
Jaxon Cooper
I'm just addressing the usual argument when Sup Forums is told to fuck off back to its containment board. if I went on Sup Forums with actual facts, they'd all be triggered as shit.
Mason Bennett
Holy fuck that's some great cartooning! Makes me wish other lifelong cartoonists would dip their toes in comic books.
Nathan Nelson
Lifelong animators, I mean.
Adrian Bailey
Damnit Marvel, I'm sold.
Matthew Ward
those were mostly comedic takes though. not sure what that other user was referring to, but like this CAGE book is being presented as Genndy doing Black Dynomite with Cage. Not straight up comedy, but definitely going back to his blaxploitation roots with a little goofiness around it.
Josiah Carter
but he is a jew
Brody Perez
And Sup Forums is probably the wrong board to decry Jews on, given how Jewey Comics and TV/Movies are.
Sebastian Robinson
And you're a cunt, so fucking what?
Luis Roberts
>1970s Power Man blaxploitation comic >by Genndy
I didn't even know I wanted this.
Jackson Moore
It was due
Evan Gomez
>transparent, shameless pandering is celebrated as progressive >sincere homage is slammed and dismissed as racist
this is the world we live in now
Jordan White
White boys only make white boy comics
Jonathan Thompson
I'm a human being, actually
Lincoln Bailey
And yet you're being a cunt. Funny, that.
Eli Barnes
Says the namefag
Jordan Price
Sup Forumsacks are subhumans who should be locked in a vat of Mountain dew
Isaiah Walker
Well there's always the Power Man and Iron Fist miniseries.
Kevin Lee
Think it's an ongoing.
Dylan Richardson
He's drawing it atm. I've seen some pages and it looks absolutely fucking phenomenal
