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Warning: contains spoilers for Storm & the Brotherhood of Mutants #1 aheadThe ongoing Sins of Sinister event has turned the Marvel Universe upside down, as the tampering of Mister Sinister turns the X-Men into villains. One of the few mutants unaffected is Storm, whose new Brotherhood are taking the fight to her former allies. The team reintroduces a young mutant first seen in X-Men Red #6 as Marvel's new fastest hero alive.

Storm & the Brotherhood of Mutants #1 takes place 10 years after the events of Sins of Sinister began, following Ororo Munroe and her ragtag team of Arakki and Krakoan mutants as they fight a desperate battle against the various Sinister forces tearing apart the Marvel Universe. Now an adult, Loolo Marshall - first introduced as a minor Arakki side character in Al Ewing's X-Men Red - is established as the fastest being still alive, taking on the codename Quick.

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Roseanne Barr has called out what she thinks is the sexist double standard of cancel culture and addressed ABC for firing her from her own sitcom reboot “Roseanne” before rebranding it as “The Conners.”

“It was a witch-burning,” Barr said of the fallout in a new interview with The Los Angeles Times. “They denied me the right to apologize. Oh my God, they just hated me so badly. I had never known that they hated me like that. They hate me because I have talent, because I have an opinion. Even though ‘Roseanne’ became [ABC’s] No. 1 show, they’d rather not have a No. 1 show.”

Barr continued, “When they killed my character off, that was a message to me – knowing that I’m mentally ill or have mental health issues – that they did want me to commit suicide.”

Barr pointed out that fellow stand-ups Dave Chappelle and Louis C.K. have since...

Hardly a year after it inked its first African content deal — a multi-year licensing agreement with Nigerian production outfit Inkblot Studios — Amazon Prime Video is primed to expand its footprint on the continent, looking to unlock a largely untapped African consumer market and lock down deals with the continent’s top talents.

“We now have a dedicated local content strategy for the continent across the board, from originals to be developed and produced by Amazon Studios, to an exciting licensing slate with top-tier producers,” said Ned Mitchell, the Los Angeles-based head of originals for Africa and the Middle East for Prime Video and Amazon Studios.

The streamer has made a raft of hirings in the past two years to shore up its Africa team — moving “quickly,” Mitchell admitted, “but with real savvy to find the right local experts who have the right approach that’s deeply respectful to talent and...