Kevin Grevioux Gives a Bright Forecast for Upcoming ‘Darkstorm’ Graphic Novel

Good news for folks looking for more stories with Black and Brown heroes at the center focus. In case you haven’t heard, Charlamagne Tha God has teamed up with Simon & Schuster for a range of graphic novels and AWA Studios, the burgeoning comic entertainment company headed by former Marvel executives Bill Jemas and Axel Alonso, to develop original comic book series. Charlamagne’s imprint under Simon & Schuster is called Black Privilege Publishing. Their first project is a graphic novel called Darkstorm by writer Kevin Grevioux and artist Ken Lashley. I got to talk to an ecstatic Kevin Grevioux about the project. I’m a big fan of Kevin Grevioux’s The Odyssey of the Amazons limited series he did for DC Comics. That man has also written for Marvel where he introduced Blue Marvel Adam Brashear, acted in movies like The Mask, Planet of the Apes, Underworld, voice acted in Young Justice, directed, as well as being a screen writer *breathes heavily after listing mad accomplishments*. This man contains multitudes! It’s also evident upon talking to Kevin how passionate he is about comic books. We got into how Marvel and DC comics are running roughshod with comic book movies which is great, however Kevin was talking about how we don’t see that same boom happening within the comics. Kevin spoke about how beyond peripheral interest, a lot of interest in comics from the big 2 companies, feels like it’s waning. However, on the independent side of comics, them storie…