One thing that's made me happy lately is the debut the other night of the new CW series, Black Lightning. The first episode sits on my TiVo waiting for me to have time to get to it but I'm just happy it's there, happy its debut got good reviews and happy its debut got great ratings. What's my stake in this thing? Nothing…I'm just happy for my friend of over fifty years, Tony Isabella. And I've only met him once or twice but I'm happy for Trevor VonEeden, too.
Back in 1977, the two of them launched a new comic for DC. It only lasted eleven issues back then but it was a great eleven issues and the concept was too good to go away. I know that whenever Tony and I were together at a convention, everyone would ask him, "When's Black Lightning coming back?" No one was expecting it to be a weekly TV series but there it is, complete with on-screen creator credits for Tony and Trevor. When I think of all the great comic book creators who never got their names on their work in other media, I'm especially happy that that doesn't happen anymore. Congrats, guys.