Briefly, two links

[selenak]

Marvel:

Brian Bendis seems to be in ecstasy about the Jessica Jones tv show. (And has as hard a crush on Luke Cage as ever, which cracks me up. Seriously, if there was ever a creator in love with his creation's love interest...) There's also the first photo of Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones. I'm so looking forward to this show!

Sense8:

Accomodation: lovely Capheus pov, exploring him processing what happened in the show's finale.

Comments

[selenak]

I never "met" pre-Bendis Luke, I have to admit. But I remember when Marvel had their main writers fill out a questionaire and one of the questions was "I'd like to marry....", and someone else - perhaps Gillen, I'm not sure though, said "If Brian Bendis answers to this question with another name than "Luke Cage", I'll call him a liar". :)

[muccamukk]

Haha. That's great.

Luke was a great character in the late '70s through early '80s when the Blacksplitation stuff was happening, and then he was completely dropped for ten years, picked up briefly in the mid-'90s, with mixed success, and then nothing until Alias. And by nothing, I mean the guy who rewrote Wonder Woman's people into a band of rapists did a mini with him wherein he was a total thug. After Bendis put him on the Avengers, he was pretty well everywhere. Partly because Bendis and Fraction are besties, and share characters a lot, and partly just because his profile was high enough that most writers now had to deal with him. Though there were also a lot of other '70s&'80s nostalgia characters coming back in at the same time.

... I've read a lot of comics with Luke Cage in them.