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He does seem quite cool, but I have to say the ability to create smoke must be the lamest superpower of all time.

I love the idea of Brother Voodoo working in post-Katrina New Orleans. Isolate him from the Marvel Universe, no guest stars, no nothing, just a guy helping people with problems; always standing at the collision point between the mystic and the mundane. A low-budget Dr. Strange working out of a FEMA trailer. That would be awesome.

Bill, you really should write this. Pitch it to Marvel or call it something else and do it on your own. But I think it could really RAWK. Or swing, rather, as they say in N’awlins.

He’s also appeared in Black Panther multiple times, though he was helping Blade fight vampires in post-Katrina NOLA.

He’s living in Wakanda right now, until the SHRA foolishness dies down.

“I love the idea of Brother Voodoo working in post-Katrina New Orleans. Isolate him from the Marvel Universe, no guest stars, no nothing, just a guy helping people with problems; always standing at the collision point between the mystic and the mundane. A low-budget Dr. Strange working out of a FEMA trailer. That would be awesome.”

Hmm, if it was me I would I would have him using his voodoo powers to fight aliens and giant robots, but I guess I’d be the only one who would buy that book.

If you’ve got the Essential Tales Of The Zombie, there’s a hilarious promo piece/making of for Brother Voodoo.
If I had it in front of me I’d quote from it here, but it’s a beautiful piece of the promo ignoring reality.
With comments like ‘with a voodoo and blaxploitation craze sweeping the country, who else but the house of ideas could come up with the concept of a book about a black magician?’
There’s also a great part about how they wanted to have a magician but get away from Doctor Strange, and they took the name from a Roy Thomas idea when he was a kid, but was basically Doctor Strange, so they really wanted to make significant changes. A paragraph later the concept has evolved to being the Doctor Strange of Voodoo.
They even mention how Len Wein had a lot of trouble actually figuring out how to make the character work, until they came up with the idea of giving him a brother, who could also be doctor voodoo.

It’s really, really funny.

First of all, if I had the power to create smoke I would rule this town…!

Secondly…holy crap, what awesomely fantastic covers! Sigh, and then, unfortunately, look at the last one.

I’ll believe the Marvel brain trust wants more kids as readers when I see covers capable of attracting the eye again. I mean just look at that ST #169 cover! Is that beautiful! Cripes!

I don’t judge a man by the color of his skin, I judge him by how well I can see him in the dark when he smiles on the cover of Gambit #9.

“First of all, if I had the power to create smoke I would rule this town…!”

Bonfire maybe?

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Bonfire!

Thanks, Dan. You’ll sit at my right hand, when this is all over.

“Thanks, Dan. You’ll sit at my right hand, when this is all over.”

Who’s to say I wont usurp your power by starting my own, slightly larger, bonfire?

Fred Hembeck got to you!
How can the first super-hero named in this column for the Black History month not be BLACK PANTHER?

Too obvious?
Did the Brother cast a spell on you?