Find out what folks are saying about WORLD OF HURT, The Internet’s #1 Blaxploitation Webcomic!…
REVIEWS
- “Blaxploitation taken seriously. That’s what you find at WORLD OF HURT. For a long time, stories paying homage to such blaxploitation films such as SUPERFLY, SHAFT, and FOXY BROWN are often written as spoofs. In WORLD OF HURT, the danger is real and the tone is straight. Sure, the story is set firmly in the blaxploitation era, but it’s not played for laughs, and that’s an angle I can get behind. I could go off on a cutesy false-jive talkin’ rant here, but I think that would do this very cool webseries a disservice. Approaching the material with a straight face is something fresh and new and worthy of notice. The story follows Isaiah “Pastor” Hurt, our hero who administers street justice, gaining the ire of your typical seventies looking cops (you know the kind…they all look like Dennis Farina or Roy Scheider). The fashions are right out of that glorious era, as are the gritty streets. Writer/artist Jay Potts does a great job of capturing the gritty feel of the streets and the people who live in them. The black and white panels really give off an authentic vibe, one that will guarantee I’ll be revisiting this site on occasion to catch up on this very cool premise and story. Not since those early LUKE CAGE: HERO FOR HIRE issues has comics come this close to treating blaxploitation era material with this much respect. WORLD OF HURT doesn’t have too many pages under its belt yet, so jump on now and keep on clicking back for more badassssss and genuine action from the streets.”
- Ambush Bug of AintItCool.com
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“WORLD OF HURT, a webcomic you can find at http://worldofhurtonline.com , is kind of fun. It’s serialised newspaper-strip style, in black and white, in a classical art style of the form. It looks like blaxploitation, but it’s not homage so much as an attempt to find a pure tone in the subgenre. Jay Potts is doing strong early work, and I see much potential.”
- Warren Ellis - comic book writer - The Authority, NextWave, Ocean, and Red.
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Coyote Trax’s Webcomics Critique, “Tuesday Choice-WORLD OF HURT,” Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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“Oh, WORLD OF HURT, you are the perfect thing to fill the POWER MAN AND IRON FIST/’76 shaped hole in my heart.”
-Cheryl Lynn at Digital Femme.com
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“WORLD OF HURT creates a full realized world filled with characters that had lives before the first panel ever went on display and that’s just what a reader wants. [Pastor] especially fills every panel with his presence, being both larger than life and down-home all at the same time. And that’s his power both inside and outside the strip.”
-Vince Moore - Omnium Gatherum at ComicsWaitingRoom.com
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“Definitely one of the best new comics I’ve seen all year.”
- Rich Watson – Glyphs: The Language Of The Black Comics Community at PopCultureShock.com
IN THE NEWS
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“Hurt Definition” From The State newspaper, Friday, October 16, 2009
- “‘Black Dynamite’ pays homage to blaxploitation films” , Thursday, October 22, 2009 - Journalist Lisa France was kind enough to interview me for this story and WORLD OF HURT is cited at the end of the article.
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WORLD OF HURT nominated for six Glyph Comics Awards! The categories include, Story Of The Year, Best Writer, Best Artist, Best Male Character, Rising Star and Best Comic Strip.
INTERVIEWS
- “Introducing…WORLD OF HURT” , Thursday, October 29, 2009. An interview conducted by David Pepose of Blog@Newsarama. The request came out of the blue and I simultaneously floated and exploded into the next room to tell my fiancee. Newsarama.com is one of the premier comic book news websites, and I’d been reading it for years. To actually be featured on it was an absolute thrill. The interview came with the invitation to “syndicate” WORLD OF HURT on http://blog.newsarama.com and it is now featured there every Tuesday and Thursday with new commentary from me.
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SiDEBAR Nation: Podcast Episode 116, December 20, 2009. A very enjoyable interview with Dwight and Swain from SiDEBAR. These guys know their stuff and always do a high caliber interview. They manage to get some of comics’ biggest names on their show, so it was a distinct honor and privilege to be invited on their show.
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Black Future Month ‘10 , February 11, 2010. David Brothers at 4thLetter.net graciously extended an offer to interview me as part of his continuing series of articles and interviews that he posts in honor of Black History Month, Black Future Month ‘10 (Great, forward-looking title. It’s one of those little things that makes Brothers so good.) He encouraged me to go as in-depth as I wanted to, and since it was conducted by e-mail, I really got to dig down and go in-depth with my answers, and expound on some issues I had addressed in previous interviews. Mr. Brothers always provides thought-provoking and challenging commentary, and his questions were no different. They were fantastic questions. I had a ball with this one and really appreciated the opportunity.
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