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

[andraste]

His fanboy enthusiasm is infectious, and I'm now looking forward to this even more. (Especially David Tennant, who should make an absolutely terrifying Purple Man.)

[lilacsigil]

Oh, Bendis, never stop drawing little hearts around Luke Cage. I am seriously scared by David Tennant as the Purple Man already...perfect casting!

[muccamukk]

It was really nice to have someone other than me in love with Luke. Because, seriously, the pre-Bendis years were dire for him.

[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". :)

[selenak]

Some of the comments to the article complain about the DT casting, declaring he wouldn't be up to it as an actor. Pfff, sceptics, I don't care about your Ten issues, I've seen him as Hamlet, I've seen him as a brain damaged man and his pre damage self in Recovery. He's up to it.

[selenak]

Inded he should. Here's hoping we'll get the show at the end of this year!

[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.