Black Tribbles

After a mello J Dilla instro and over some tight Pete Rock illness, the Ran of Steel dips his cranky toes into the pool of hip hop today, yesterday and tomorrow.

For an episode that pretty much takes place over one day, a whole lot of people use the 24 hours having a reckoning of one kind or another. Westeros. Braavos. Mereen. River Run. One bad day on Game of Thrones.

The passing of Muhammad Ali causes the Tribbles to stop and reflect on his monumental career and reflect on other great ICONS OF POP CULTURE, from which an entertaining donnybrook of an argument is brewed.

WHERE MY DOGS AT? They right here on GoT, licking wounds, playing fetch and fixing to kill himself some unbannered men! Margeary seems to have the game on lock which leaves Granma'ma to eviscerate Cersei one last time before she sets off on the road home.

Dr. Elisabeth 'Li' Sumpter of MythMedia Studios booked herself for Purple Rain before there was a Mission. And she delivers insight, reflections and heartfelt memories about her experience with the film and its amazing creator, the late Prince Rogers Nelson aka Prince.

The Ran of Steel aka R-Son The Voice of Reason aka SuperTribble drops his premiere dose of old man musings over old school beats. Its good and cranky without a hanky. Checka checka out!

Kennedy and Erik get together to celebrate the final season of the action packed Cinemax drama BANSHEE - that has had them enthralled with its Amish backdrop and bloody fisticuffs for five seasons.

Johnny Destructo is joined by Spider-Mike, Tim From Last Week and The Official Grace Gordon get together at Johnny Destructo’s Hero Complex in Manayunk PA to discuss: X-MEN APOCALYPSE, Jupiter’s Legacy Treasure Hunt, and The Captain America Hail Hydra Hoopla!

There's a definite need for more female representation in the comic book world and cartoonists / editors CLAIRE FOLKMAN & KELLY PHILLIPS fill it lovingly with the DIRTY DIAMONDS book collection. Here all about it, Kelly's CAT-a-log, Claire's furniture dressing and how little folks know about Al Pacino in this month's TRIBBLETANG, from Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse.

Hip. Irreverent. Controversial. Anthony Piper's sarcastic spoof at the Justice League and the foibles of man super and not has been called them all. But the biting wit of the work is just another by-product of the Chicago raised illustrator who went to LA with a dream. And awoke with a job at Marvel.