Sorry, Chappelle’s Show, but Wayne Brady is going bad on a new TV series: Black Lightning. The comedian and Whose Line Is It Anyway? star is getting a guest spot on The CW superhero show’s third season as Tyson Spikes aka Gravedigger.
That character debuted as Captain Ulysses Hazard in 1977, then was reimagined as Tyson Sykes in 2008, but he’s always been an African-American soldier whose race has been central to his identity.
According to EW, Black Lightning’s take on the character is a Captain America-like World War II-era supersoldier who left the U.S. for Markovia after the war. Rather than come back to a country that still treated him as a second-class citizen, Spikes strove to create a nation specifically for superhumans. Ringing any X-Men bells? In fans’ first look at the character, Brady is going full scarred, military badass.
Check it out:
Who does he have that gun trained on? Lynn (Christine Adams)?
Fans can find out soon, as Gravedigger will…
