BNP Staff’s Year End Post: “Yo 2015, What’s Good?”

Another year is in the books folks, and what a ride it’s been! The Nerd-verse has blessed with so many great noteworthy moments this year — so many, in fact, that the BNP Avengers have assembled to discuss the significant events that fell on their radar.

Lordy, Lordy, Lord. We’re back at this again already? Felt like we just did a end of the year wrap up just a bit ago. Maaaaaaaan, we are moving time-wise. 2015 was pretty alright, I feel like we blindsided the indie market with hits like Nadia Greene and then John Boyega attacking The Empire’s block since being casted in Star Wars. We’re even being blessed with a Black Panther appearance for the trailer of Captain America: Civil War. *Clay Davis voice into Rick Flair voice* “Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit! Woooooooooooooooooooo!” It’s an exciting time to be alive and invested in seeing more representation in media… but it’s still a trying time for us, too. The state of things for black folk is still under duress with police shootings that mainstream media has made a culture of having its audience Kanye-shrug off because “that’s just the way it is.” The beautiful thing about this site? About Black Nerd Problems? On the regular, this staff finds ways to talk about the sadness, struggle, or anger of whats happening now towards black folks, Muslims, refugees (the list goes on and on and on) through the lens of cartoons, manga, web-comics, comics, and movies. That’s such a fine skill that this staff is able to utilize with …