Blokhedz
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Blokhedz is an independent comic book
/graphic novel
series created by the Madtwiinz, Mark and Mike Davis. Since the release of Issue #1 in 2004, the 4-book comic series has developed a small but dedicated underground fanbase. It is characterized by a gritty style, and its "unflinching" look at the harsh realities of inner city life.
In February 2009, the creators announced a partnership with Gatorade to create an animated web-series for Blokhedz. You can watch the trailer and webisodes on Gatorade's Mission G website. Talib Kweli
plays the main character, Young Blak. Lauren London
plays Essence, Blak's love interest. Bobbito García
plays Eatho, the smart Puerto Rican b baller. Gary Sturgis
plays Biskit, the leader of the biker gang, Wild Dawgs. Dorian Harewood
plays King Tubby, the Rastafarian store owner technician.
Set in mythical, gang-ridden streets of Empire City, BLOKHEDZ is the animated story of a teenage rapper, Blak. With the help of his crew, “G-Pak, Blak fights off temptations of the streets and dreams of making it big in the rap game. But when he gets caught in the middle of a crime lord-turned-media-mogul’s plan to control the city, Blak discovers his rhymes have supernatural abilities. Will Blak stay true to himself and use his magical gifts for good? Or will he be lured into using them for evil. The fate of Empire City hangs in the balance.
Episode 2 "Paid In Full"
BLOKHEDZ: In their attempt to hustle up some loot to repair Audio 2, G-Pak takes it to the basketball courts, but the local biker gang, The Wild Dawgs, has other ideas.
Episode 3 "Pump up the Volume"
BLOKHEDZ chronicles the saga of young Blak, a 17-year-old superhero in the form of an aspiring rapper, blessed with the gift of turning rhymes to reality. In act three, Blak and Flash dodge the Wild Dawgs, meet the lovely Essence (voiced by Lauren London), and get confronted by a crew of shadow traveling thugs. Will the G-Pak escape the clutches of the Wild Dawgs? Even if they do, does Blak have any chance of surviving the vicious Dungeons of Rap?
Mission G Blokhedz episodes
Episode 1 "thinking of a Master Plan"
Episode 2 "Paid in Full"
Episode 3 "Pump up the Volume"
Behind the scenes of blokhedz
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
/graphic novel
Graphic novel
A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...
series created by the Madtwiinz, Mark and Mike Davis. Since the release of Issue #1 in 2004, the 4-book comic series has developed a small but dedicated underground fanbase. It is characterized by a gritty style, and its "unflinching" look at the harsh realities of inner city life.
In February 2009, the creators announced a partnership with Gatorade to create an animated web-series for Blokhedz. You can watch the trailer and webisodes on Gatorade's Mission G website. Talib Kweli
Talib Kweli
Talib Kweli Greene , better known as Talib Kweli, is an American hip-hop artist and poet from Brooklyn, New York. His first name in Arabic means "student" or "seeker" ; his in Swahili means "true"...
plays the main character, Young Blak. Lauren London
Lauren London
Lauren Nicole London is an American film and television actress, model, and occasional music video actress. Beginning her career in music videos and later transitioning into film and television, London earned recognition for her performances in the film ATL as well as the television shows 90210...
plays Essence, Blak's love interest. Bobbito García
Bobbito Garcia
Robert "Bobbito" García , also known as Kool Bob Love and formerly known as DJ Cucumberslice, Bobbito The Barber, Make It Happen, Boogie Bob, Soul Food Bob, and Bag of Tricks, is a Puerto Rican DJ, writer, entrepreneur, streetball player/coach/announcer, sneaker connoisseur, and member of the Rock...
plays Eatho, the smart Puerto Rican b baller. Gary Sturgis
Gary Sturgis
Gary Anthony Sturgis is as an American actor known for providing the voice of Ebon in the television series Static Shock...
plays Biskit, the leader of the biker gang, Wild Dawgs. Dorian Harewood
Dorian Harewood
W. Dorian Harewood is an American actor. He first garnered attention for his portrayal of Simon Haley in the ABC miniseries Roots: The Next Generations.-Career:...
plays King Tubby, the Rastafarian store owner technician.
Mission G episodes descriptions
Episode 1 "thinking of a Master Plan"Set in mythical, gang-ridden streets of Empire City, BLOKHEDZ is the animated story of a teenage rapper, Blak. With the help of his crew, “G-Pak, Blak fights off temptations of the streets and dreams of making it big in the rap game. But when he gets caught in the middle of a crime lord-turned-media-mogul’s plan to control the city, Blak discovers his rhymes have supernatural abilities. Will Blak stay true to himself and use his magical gifts for good? Or will he be lured into using them for evil. The fate of Empire City hangs in the balance.
Episode 2 "Paid In Full"
BLOKHEDZ: In their attempt to hustle up some loot to repair Audio 2, G-Pak takes it to the basketball courts, but the local biker gang, The Wild Dawgs, has other ideas.
Episode 3 "Pump up the Volume"
BLOKHEDZ chronicles the saga of young Blak, a 17-year-old superhero in the form of an aspiring rapper, blessed with the gift of turning rhymes to reality. In act three, Blak and Flash dodge the Wild Dawgs, meet the lovely Essence (voiced by Lauren London), and get confronted by a crew of shadow traveling thugs. Will the G-Pak escape the clutches of the Wild Dawgs? Even if they do, does Blak have any chance of surviving the vicious Dungeons of Rap?
Publication
- Genesis (112 pages, March 2007, Pocket BooksPocket BooksPocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books.- History :Pocket produced the first mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in America in early 1939 and revolutionized the publishing industry...
, ISBN 1416540733) - Volume 2 (112 pages, June 2008, Pocket BooksPocket BooksPocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books.- History :Pocket produced the first mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in America in early 1939 and revolutionized the publishing industry...
, ISBN 1416542116)
Awards
- Glyph Awards: Rising Star Award for Best Self-Publisher
- New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age 2008.
- YALSA 2008 Quick Pick Nomination
External links
- Blokhedz official site
- Street Legends Ink
- Madtwiinz Interview] at complexComplexA complex is a whole that comprehends a number of intricate parts, especially one with interconnected or mutually related parts; for example, a complex of buildings.Complex may refer to:-Biology:...
- BRANDON SCHULTZ ON IMAGE'S BLOKHEDZ at NewsaramaNewsaramaNewsarama is an American website that publishes news, interviews and essays about the American comic book industry.-History:Newsarama began in Summer 1995 as a series of Internet forum postings on the Prodigy comic-book message boards by fan Mike Doran. In these short messages. Doran shared...
- Madtwiinz Interview at Format Mag
- The Trailer
Mission G Blokhedz episodes
Episode 1 "thinking of a Master Plan"
Episode 2 "Paid in Full"
Episode 3 "Pump up the Volume"
Behind the scenes of blokhedz