These celebrity passings can come all at once sometimes. You always want to pay your respects to those celebrities whose art or entertainment that you connected with. However, there are a few that will touch you more on a personal level than others. This is the case...
Chaka Khan’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert
by MHill | Jul 11, 2024 | Black History Month, Marion's Favorites, Music Reviews, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Now and then, an artist (be it a musician, painter, or writer) can inject a much-needed burst of joy into your everyday life. Here for today (July 10th), Chaka Khan gave me that shot of much needed joy. Note, I did not write a dose of happiness. I wrote joy. There is...
Icon #14
by MHill | Feb 6, 2022 | Black History Month, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog
Rocket learns a valuable lesson with the responsibility she has as a superhero and being Icon's partner. She asks Icon to attend a community event, but he cannot attend because his day job as a lawyer demands his attention. Rocket is frustrated with his duties as a...
Icon #13
by MHill | Sep 4, 2021 | Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Buck Wild is on the scene! He is taking names and delivering punishment to anyone that stands in his way in the city of Dakota. However, he is under the spell of Lysistrata Jones and her magical whip. Buck Wild can not resist her control over him. As a result, she...
Icon #12
by MHill | Aug 27, 2021 | Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
"Don't forget, you're a full-time student and a part-time superhero." Icon told Rocket the aforementioned sentence at the beginning of Issue 12 while they were saving someone from being robbed. Rocket has been trying to manage her life of high school student,...
Icon #11
by MHill | Aug 25, 2021 | Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
A fourth-grader named Todd Loomis wrote a paper for his class about what he did on his Christmas vacation break. He got to see Icon and Rocket in action as they took down some criminal gun dealers. The gun dealers were trying flood the city of Dakota with guns and...
Icon #10
by MHill | Aug 15, 2021 | Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Rocket apologizes to Icon for connecting with Holocaust. She learns that Holocaust wants to control the city of Dakota. Icon confronts Holocaust and two dialogue about the role of the Big Bang and how it has affected the city. That dialogue leads to a confrontation...
Icon #9
by MHill | Aug 7, 2021 | Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
My goal is to re-read and review the entire forty-two issue run of Icon that was published by Milestone Media in conjunction with DC Comics from 1993-1997. I have read the first story arc of eight issues that set-up the origin of Icon and his teenage sidekick,...
Icon #8
by MHill | Apr 12, 2021 | Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Independent filmmaker John Sayles released Brother From Another Planet back in 1984. The movie tells the story of a visitor from outer space played by the great actor Joe Morton, who looks like a black man. He arrives on Earth in a spaceship that looks like it is...
Icon #7
by MHill | Apr 2, 2021 | Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Will Rocket have the baby? Will she get an abortion? Those are the main questions from Issue 7. Rocket is weighing the decision to go through with the pregnancy or get an abortion. This one of the most difficult decisions that any woman has to make especially a...