Luke Cage Appreciation

[Alpha Male]

Where did he learn to speak Japanese?

It wasn't revealed where, but Cage first spoke Japanese back in the Wolverine and Iron Fist limited series. It's the series where the Hand transported K'un L'un to Japan.

[Walter West]

He was Power Man for a while.

For a long time, as in Power Man and Iron Fist: Heroes for Hire, but that is a long ways back. I remember the yellow, openchested shirt, metal tiara, and afro. Heck, I remember him saving him and Misty by chaining them to tires and letting the tires float them up to the surface in a really old issue (It might be the same one that had Mace in it).

But he's been Luke Cage for ages now and that is how people identify him. As such, he's more of a man of the people.

[Laminator_X]

if you reread what you've written you'll see my problem. he traded loyalty for his friends and neighborhood for Jessica Jones. he all but admitted that he was attracted to her because she was screwed up. she doesn't elevate Luke. Luke elevates her. He has dated doctors and models. but he has settled on a never-was chain smoking foul mouthed alky plain jane who spent the first few issues of her series taking it in the behind & sitting on the pot. first impressions matter. if my younger brother were dating someone like Jessica, i wouldn't approve.

Remember what Luke's first impression of Jessica was: A heroine who was willing to flush her secret ID rather than see a couple of innocent kids suffer for their parents' misdeeds, all while walking off a knife wound.

Layers, they both have them.

[whiteshark]

A great super-hero,and a essential member of the New Avengers team.

His first stories way back from the 70`s are just classic Marvel stories from that time,and the role the character had in New Avengers made him one of the best Avengers.
Luke Cage leading the Thunderbolts will even develop the character more,since Jeff Parker stories always rely in well thought characterizations.
Right now i think Luke Cage is one of the super heroes which deserve a own ongoing book as well.

Old School Luke Cage :



Modern Luke Cage :

[coveredinbees]

I own it but I don't want to talk about it. It's filthy in here, it smells like prostitution.

mattbib merged your thread because there was already a Luke Cage appreciation thread and because

Your opinion about something is not in and of itself worthy of its own thread. I understand that you have opinions and that you think they're interesting, but we already have so many discussion threads in which you can express your opinion that you do not need to form your own thread to do so.

The appreciation threads and other rules are in the directory.

He merges all duplicate appreciation threads.

[G. Boney]

it was too 90s for me. and there were just a number of plot points i could have done without (the introduction of Luke's brother for instance). plus, while it was just a sign of the times, it was his worst costume period ever. the dude had anklets over his hammer pants.

Hammer pants? He wore jeans in that series.

[Descartes_Lives]

Wasn't Tyrese interested in being Luke Cage for the Luke Cage movie? That's what I had heard. I think Terry Crews, at 41, may be a bit too old to appear in a film which, I think, is by necessity going to be an origin story. Dude would have to work out, though.

Des.

[TripleX]

mattbib merged your thread because there was already a Luke Cage appreciation thread and because

The appreciation threads and other rules are in the directory.

He merges all duplicate appreciation threads.

That's just it, this WASN'T a "Luke Cage Appreciation Thread" until he made it one. If I had called it that it would have been redundant, not to mention boring. It was a broader discussion about the nature of stereotypes and how they related to Luke Cage and the Avengers. He hijacked it, generalized it, slapped his name on it and took full credit. That's not right. I would prefer it if he had deleted it all together.

Maybe it's my fault because I'm used to discussing how comic characters relate to our society and not just the characters themselves?

If I'm wrong, I apologize...but I feel like I've been stolen from.

[Greg Anderson]

That's just it, this WASN'T a "Luke Cage Appreciation Thread" until he made it one. If I had called it that it would have been redundant, not to mention boring. It was a broader discussion about the nature of stereotypes and how they related to Luke Cage and the Avengers. He hijacked it, generalized it, slapped his name on it and took full credit. That's not right. I would prefer it if he had deleted it all together.

Maybe it's my fault because I'm used to discussing how comic characters relate to our society and not just the characters themselves?

If I'm wrong, I apologize...but I feel like I've been stolen from.

I actually really enjoyed your original post and would like to have discussion on it.

Mattbib, is there anyway we can have that?

[The Predator101]

I like Luke Cage cause I was about 6 or 7 when my Godfather gave a Luke Cage comic book to read and it blew me away, I barley read the dialog, I was just in awe of a cool different character ... he just seemed so cool and powerful to a kid and I was a child of the 70's & 80's so he just sorta fit in, I had NO idea of stereotypes or racism or the fact that people didn't get along.
But I liked Powerman and his partner Iron Fist.

I watched a lot of old Kung-Fu movies and in my mind PM & IF where the best characters in the world.

You grow up and you read more and start loving X-men, Spider-man and Captain America..but I always have a soft spot for Luke Cage.

I'm so happy he's in the lime light again, I'm glad he's a big part of the MU. He's still cool and he's making being a husband and a parent cool.
I just think Luke has a lot more stories in him and if you don't like him remember, they're are no bad characters in Marvel just bad writers.

LONG LIVE LUKE CAGE!!!

[Pixie_Solanas]

[Monty_Cristo]

the chain's there to hold the money, honey.

[marvell2100]

What about this look? It's pretty cool.

[32Cage]

Did anyone else read the '90s Cage series? If so, what did you think?

I've read and re-read it, mostly due to the involvement of Dakota North and my attempts to catalog her appearances, but at the end of the day I ended up enjoying it. Not the best book by any means, and very representative of the times, but worth checking out if you're a Cage fan.

Read it. Enjoyed it. First time there was any real backstory on Luke's family. Prior to that time we never knew that Luke's dad was a cop or that Luke's gang involvement contributed to his mother's death. We didn't know that his Pops was still alive and that his older brother James wanted both Luke and his dad to believe each other were dead. Cage owes Dakota North big time for unraveling the truth.

[Alan2099]

What about this look? It's pretty cool.

The outfit I liked, but there was something that always threw me off it. Maybe it's the face or just the haircut, but he never quite seemed like he looked right to me.