Eric Jerome Dickey the Year (Blackbirds), and 2017 Author of the Year (Finding Gideon) as part of Yvette Hayward's African American Literary Awards Show held in the mecca of publishing, New York City. It is the only ongoing literary awards show that recognizes griots from the diaspora. Eric Jerome Dickey was named Distinguished Lecturer of the Leimert Park Village Book Fair, August 2018. Dickey is the author of the graphic novel "Storm", which re-imagines the first meeting between the popular X-Men character Ororo Munroe and T'Challa, king of the fictional land of Wakanda known as the Black Panther. He performed stand-up comedy, mostly
X-Men Origins: Wolverine backstory, and some goofy Liev Schreiber-as-a-villain thespianizing". Hugh Jackman later confessed being unhappy with the final result of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine". The actor wanted primarily a film that would deepen the Wolverine character, but "somehow the first Wolverine movie ended up looking like the fourth X-Men — just with different characters." He tried to avert the same results while doing the next solo film for the character, 2013's "The Wolverine". Two cases exist of adolescents injecting themselves with elemental mercury after having seen "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and incorrectly believing this would convert their bones to metal similar to Wolverine. "Wolverine"