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Whatever Happened To…Genndy Tartakovsky’s “Luke Cage?”

Genndy Tartakovsky's concept art for the proposed "Luke Cage" mini-series.

A little over two years ago this month, at Wizard World Chicago, the Dexter’s Laboratory and Samurai Jack creator announced that he was working on a four issue mini-series featuring Marvel Comics’ Black supehero icon.  The above concept art accompanied the announcement, and that, combined with Tartakovsky’s pledge to return Cage to his 1970s Blaxploitation roots had me pretty excited.

Sadly, I haven’t seen any subsequent stories about the project.  If ya got any info, be sure to send it my way.

NOTE: This post was inspired by SideBarNation.com’s October 2007 interview with Phil LaMarr, the voice of Samurai Jack.  You can find their podcast with the talented voice actor and MadTV alum here.

- JEP

ADDITIONAL LINKS:

Newsarama.com’s brief interview with Genndy Tartakovsky on August 10, 2007 following the announcement.

Marvel.com’s story from the same day, with the de rigueur “bad mother…shut yo’ mouth” reference and a larger version of the above image.


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