While she would cosplay, on occasion, at local cons, Charanne Loves has been more active in the community since 2019. What started as dressing up for raves has blossomed into an ongoing passion for cosplay. She’s also got her own clothing business with looks that are heavily inspired by various fandoms, combining her love for cosplay with clothing design! Check out her cosplay story below.
How do you decide what you’re going to cosplay?
I’m the most chaotic cosplayer ever, I will wake up one day and be like, “I think a sexy Pickle Rick cosplay would be cool!”
Daniel Adeyemi
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While many kids dreamed of becoming superheroes like Spider-Man or Wonder Woman, Roy Okupe dreamed of creating an African superhero universe.
Last week, Okupe moved a step closer to achieving his dreams as Dark Horse Comics, the publisher behind the likes of Hellboy and The Umbrella Academy, announced that it had acquired the rights to publish YouNeek Studios’ (Okupe’s company) library in an unprecedented deal.
This is the first time Dark Horse Comics has ever distributed an entire library of African superheroes.
YouNeek Studios also recently secured VC investment from Impact X Capital to develop animation series based on a world of superhero and fantasy stories inspired by African history and mythology.
It s time to cancel the apocalypse with the first teaser trailer for
Pacific Rim: The Black, a brand-new anime series inspired by the film franchise about giant robots beating the snot out of giant monsters (and vice versa). The show, which will be a Netflix Original, officially stomps online Thursday, March 4. It was first announced in fall 2018.
While the initial round of footage doesn t give away much, it does reveal that more breaches have opened and are spewing forth Kaiju onto Australian shores. The colossal creatures are overrunning the continent and everyone is evacuated, except for two teenage siblings, Taylor and Hayley. Together, they learn to operate a battered, long-abandoned Jaeger (the name given to the skyscraper-sized mechas) in the hopes of finding their missing parents and repelling the monstrous invasion. Most welcomingly, the teaser gives us a variation of Ramin Djawadi s epic not to mention iconic theme song used in both live-action movies.
Netflix is planning to adapt Nora Roberts’ novel
Brazen Virtue, which was revealed Tuesday alongside the announcement that actress Alyssa Milano would portray the main character. But after news of Milano’s casting came out, many of Roberts’ fans objected to the casting, which led Roberts to take to social media to defend it. Featured Video Hide
Roberts’ 2011 novel
Brazen Virtue follows Grace McCabe, a mystery writer who is thrust into a deadly real-life mystery after the death of her estranged sister, who had a double-life as a sex worker. But the objection from some of Roberts’ fans didn’t have anything to do with their perception of Grace as a character in comparison to Milano. Instead, they objected to the casting simply because of Milano’s politics and years of being an open critic of Donald Trump, and the initial Facebook post received thousands of comments, many of them negative.
He dreamed of creating his own African superhero universe - now it s finally paying off
David Betancourt, The Washington Post
Jan. 27, 2021
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Roye Okupe dreamed of creating an African superhero universe.
He discovered superheroes from Transformers and X-Men cartoons while growing up in Lagos, Nigeria. He arrived in the United States in 2002 at the age of 17, the same year Sam Raimi s first Spider-Man movie broke records at the box office and made superheroes a mainstay in theaters.
By the time he graduated from George Washington University with a degree in computer science (while also studying animation at the Art Institute of Washington), Okupe was shopping around an 8-minute animated trailer for an African superhero. Years before Black Panther would go on to make a billion dollars at the box office, Okupe received little interest from the TV world. One producer told him his ideas might work if he changed the race of his heroes.