‘Black Lightning’ strikes right note

lead role) next month for a celebration so anticipated, it could add an extra couple of days to Black History Month.

Cyborg, perhaps DC Comics’ most popular black superhero, due in no small part to the success of Cartoon Network’s

series, received the big-budget movie treatment with Ray Fisher’s performance in

(starring Mike Colter) has become a successful part of Marvel’s gritty Netflix superhero slate.

DC’s John Stewart/Green Lantern is up there, but his live-action debut is tied up into the will they/ won’t they movie reboot.

And yes, I realise Anthony Mackie’s Falcon and Don Cheadle’s War Machine are both flying around the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and that Diggle/Spartan (David Ramsey) and Martian Manhunter (David Harewood) are on the CW Television Network, but those characters aren’t franchise starters.

If the CW was going to take their success in comic-book adaptation and put a black superhero at the forefront, Black Lightning was the only guy left. That’s not a bad thing, however.

debuts on Tuesday on the CW. Don’t be blinded be the intense dark and baby blues of actor Cress Williams’s electrically-charged superhero suit.

Take a deeper look and you’ll see a show that doesn’t get lost in the fantasy of superhero television and takes the responsibility of portraying being black in America seriously.

A huge part of any future success of will depend on the gaze of that very same Black UNMASKED: Jefferson Pierce (Cres the key to success for youth so he do Kara Fowdy (Skye P Marshall) believe