The San Diego Comic Con is off course seen by most enthusiasts as the Holy Grail of Comic Cons, but perhaps Cape Town can give it a run for its money. Kapow!
African superheroes reigned supreme at this year’s Comic Con Africa, which celebrated all things sci-fi, fantasy and comic related.
Marvel is making big changes this year, and one of the biggest reveals is that the new Captain America will be Sam Wilson AKA The Falcon.
When it comes to comic books, they tend to diversify their characters by adding different powers, different colours or different capes. Very rarely, they’ll chuck in the odd female superhero. But never have they really ventured very far into racial or ethnic minorities when it comes to creating new characters. That’s all about to change, with the creation of a new superheroine. A teenage Muslim girl from Jersey, Kamala Khan.
Owing to what is arguably one of the more bizarre printing faux pas in cartoon history, Donald Duck has found himself embroiled in a Nazi-related scandal after an old comic book story was republished in Germany, featuring the word ‘Holocaust’ instead of ‘Congratulations’.