Hotep Heroes... Black Lightning
I’ll be honest… Until last Monday, I had never even HEARD of Black Lightning. As a part-time comic book nerd who has found himself in a dearth of time for it for most of my adult life – who, by the way, was never much for DC Comics anyway – it was just completely under my radar. Episode 1 was about to come when my lady mentioned it to me. “Hell, I’ll watch,” I said after a perfunctory Google search of the premise of the show. On the whole, I was impressed with the show. The presentation of Black life in America, a man willing to do what he must for his own kids and in the protection of those in his responsibility and a well-written story were all wins. This is The CW we’re talking about here, so I was fully expecting low-value production bordering campy or even comical. In the latter, they did not disappoint. This would be made ESPECIALLY obvious when our hero finally donn...