Thursday, May 10, 2018

Donald Glover As Childish Gambino - This Is America



A bold artistic vision and powerful social commentary. This is important work from an actor who always impressed me. He's too old to play Miles Morales but the PERFECT age to play the Prowler, a really cool character in the Spider-Man Universe.






 
The Prowler's various iterations have no superhuman powers (but Hobie Brown is naturally inventive, especially in the field of pneumatics yet has no formal education in that science). Each one relies on a suite of technical gimmicks. Prowler wears modified coveralls interwoven with denim and stretch fabric, equipped with gas cartridge bracelets and anklets capable of propelling projectiles at high velocity. Their arsenal of projectiles include steel darts ("flechettes"), gas pellets, small explosives, magnesium flares and cleaning fluid. Prowler has been known to use hypnotic aids and conventional hand-held weapons. Each wears steel-tipped gauntlets for scaling walls, and shock absorbent foam rubber insulated boots. He also wears a cape which contains a network of pneumatic filaments which expand with air to give it a rigid structure, allowing him to glide for short distances.

A technological genius, Hobie Brown has also designed the cybernetically-controlled wing harness used by Hornet (Peter Parker during Identity Crisis) although he himself was unable to use due to the weight. He is a skilled hand-to-hand combatant, possessing a green belt in taekwondo.

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