I'm afraid that there is some weird stuff going on in the comic world. It seems that the movie Batman & Robin has sent the comic/movie world spiraling out of control and I sense a great disturbance.

It all started when the production of Spiderman The Movie was announced and that pencil neck geek Toby McGwire was named as the man who would play Spidey. I got over it when I heard that Spiderman would be done mostly in CGI which would limit the amount of time that we would see him in the webslinger costume.

Then there were rumors floating around, mainly from that fat orange haired slob's web site (Ain't It Cool News) that Nick Cage would be playing Superman in a possible updated version of the classic flick. What planet are we on? The Man Of Steel with big bushy eye brows and an out of control receding hair line? Luckily that project fell through.

Shouldn't he be called the Black Lantern? Because damnit, this wasn't the real one. The fact that we live in a society that we change the ethnic background of a super hero makes me ill! Instead of defacing the legendary Green Lantern, they should've brought in an original black super hero such as Black Lightning, who graced the pages of DC Comics in the 70's.

See how cool he looks! Black Lightning rocks! I would be proud to fight along side this brother. They could do some cross marketing and name a malt liquor after him. "Black Lightning, buy a 40 ounce, become a hero!" And what a great one-two punch "BL" and Superman would make.

I thought the whole Green Lantern thing was an isolated incident, but one day I was reading about the new Daredevil movie, who happens to be one of my personal favorite super heroes. It turns out that his nemesis Kingpin will also be played by a black man. And not just any black man, he will be played by Michael Clarke Duncan, that big guy from The Green Mile, Planet Of The Apes, and The Scorpion King. Huh? Kingpin is a 400-500 pound bald white guy. Clarke only has one out the three. Was John Goodman not available for the role? Did they have to fill a quota? Couldn't they get Marlon Brando out of bed? Couldn't they put some guy in a fat suit? I'm truly puzzled by this casting decision.