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The Jackson Family all 11 of them. Ebony Magazine 1974. Michael 2nd from right, far right Jermaine being extra with his perm and 8 year old Janet bottom right!
Michael "Rock With You" 1979
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LOL. yeah a lot of those are really really really bad. They need more real Black people on the wardrobe, hair and makeup teams on Hollywood productions. lol
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What Black Panther and Storm look like in the pages of Ultimate Black Panther circa 2024 to the present. It's alternative universe with different designs. Storms design wa a creation of Peach Momoko a Japanese artist who is bridging the gap of American Comic Styles and Asian Anime.
So if you are critical of this when you see it. Its not the main Storm continuity. Its an alternative universe take! In the Ultimate take these characters are together and didn't divorce like the main 616 continuity!
Images 2 and 3 so the original design remix grids of these characters!
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Actual Iron Man Variant Cover in 2016 paying homage to 50 Cent's 2003 classic "Get Rich Or Die Trying" this was part of a wave of variant comic book covers that Marvel released 2015 to 2017, that have become insanely collectible by people who never bought a comic in there life as a nostalgia "cool factor" piece to have. Which shot up the price for them on the secondary market!
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Blaxploitation Tuesday – Blackenstein aka Black Frankenstein (1973)
Some films are hidden gems.
Some are cult classics.
And then… there’s Blackenstein. 😭
Even by blaxploitation standards — which were often working with bare-bones budgets and DIY filmmaking — this one sits at the bottom of the barrel. Directed by William A. Levey, the film tries to blend the Frankenstein myth with blaxploitation energy, telling the story of a wounded Vietnam veteran who undergoes an experimental regeneration treatment… and comes back as a monster. On paper, that sounds like it could work. A Black Frankenstein? There’s potential there. But the execution?
Yeah… it doesn’t get there.
Unlike Blacula, which at least had William Marshall’s committed, serious performance holding the whole thing together, Blackenstein goes the opposite direction. The acting is uneven, the tone is all over the place, and the film leans into its limitations instead of rising above them. The budget somehow feels even smaller than most of its peers — rough cinematography, awkward lighting, questionable effects — and when you’re doing horror, that matters. You don’t need a massive budget, but you do need enough craft to maintain the illusion. Blackenstein basically says, “Nah… we good.” 😆
What makes it even more bizarre is that the film actually features recognizable names like John Hart and Andrea King, both of whom had real Hollywood careers decades earlier. These were legitimate actors in the 1940s and 50s, and here they are in the 70s, showing up in a low-budget exploitation horror film. And honestly, that tells its own story. Hollywood changes. Careers fade. Bills don’t. Sometimes you take the role that’s available, not the one you imagined back in your prime. There’s a strong argument that the limited budget here went more toward recognizable faces than toward production quality.
Now, to be fair — part of the charm of blaxploitation is that DIY, rough-around-the-edges energy. The bad lighting, the inconsistent sound, the over-the-top performances — that can make these films feel raw, unique, and even endearing. You can forgive a lot when a movie has heart, ambition, or at least a committed vision. But horror is a tricky lane. If the audience stops believing in the threat, the whole thing falls apart. And Blackenstein doesn’t quite do enough to keep that illusion intact.
This isn’t “so bad it’s good.”
It’s more like… “so bad it just is.”
And that’s why it never built the kind of cult following that something like Blacula did. It didn’t have that one anchor — that one performance, that one element — to elevate it above its limitations. Instead, it leans fully into the chaos, and the result is a film that feels more like a curiosity than a rediscovered classic.
Blaxploitation gave us icons, experimentation, and opportunities that didn’t exist before. It also gave us films like this — where the ambition was there, but the execution just couldn’t match it. And that’s part of the history too.
Sometimes rediscovery reveals hidden greatness.
Sometimes it reminds you why something stayed forgotten. 🖤🎬🔥
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