{"id":110494,"date":"2019-10-14T12:39:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T11:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=110494"},"modified":"2023-02-23T13:08:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T13:08:22","slug":"black-lightning-season-3-adds-wayne-brady-as-gravedigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/black-lightning-season-3-adds-wayne-brady-as-gravedigger\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Lightning Season 3 adds Wayne Brady as Gravedigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CW&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>Black Lightning\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>cast list is getting even longer for Season 3: Wayne Brady has officially joined the show as Tyson Spikes, AKA Gravedigger.<\/p>\n<p>Brady is best known for being a regular on improvisational comedy series\u00a0<em><strong>Whose Line Is It Anyway?<\/strong><\/em>, as well as being the host of daytime talk show\u00a0<em><strong>The Wayne Brady Show<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The character of Tyson Spikes is described as a World War II-era member of the US military who became a &#8216;super soldier&#8217; after a secret experiment gave him enhanced strength, agility, tactical genius and hand-to-hand combat skills. He defected to Markovia after the war rather than return to his segregated home. His aim to create a sovereign land for metahumans within Markovia sets him on a collision course with Black Lightning and the ASA.<\/p>\n<p>Gravedigger made his first appearance in the DC comics in\u00a0<em><strong>Men Of War #1\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>in August 1977, as the alter ego of Captain Ulysses Hazard. The mantel was taken on by Tyson Spikes in\u00a0<em><strong>Checkmate Vol. 2 #24\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>in May 2008. The latter version of the character was created by writers Greg Rucka and Eric Trautmann and artist Joe Bennett.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Black Lightning\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>stars Cress Williams,\u00a0China Anne McClain, Nafessa Williams, Christine Adams, Marvin Jones III, Damon Gupton, James Remar, and Jordan Calloway.\u00a0Salim Akil serves as the show&#8217;s executive producer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get all the latest superhero news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whose Line Is It Anyway&#8217;s Wayne Brady joins Black Lightning Season 3 as Gravedigger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":110495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[5379],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/waynegonewild.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127652,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110494\/revisions\/127652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}