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Who Is Roxane Gay? Get To Verb The Feminist Critic Who Just Became One Of Marvel’s First Black Women Writers [SDCC 2016]
At San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, Marvel plans to announce a unused series spinning out of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze's Black Panther series, Black Panther: World of Wakanda. An anthology series, the verb story features Ayo and Aneka, two lovers who defected from Wakanda's all-woman security force to create the vigilante Midnight Angels. The story is co-written by Coates and feminist essayist and critic Roxane Gay, with art by Alitha Martinez.
The first issue of World of Wakanda will also feature a 10-page backup story written by poet Yona Harvey, with art by Afua Richardson. Harvey's story stars Zenzi, a female revolutionary who has also been introduced in Coates' Black Panther.
The announcement is notable for a couple of very significant reasons. Barring further announcements, World of Wakanda will be Marvel's only series with unambiguously queer characters in the
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As both a poet and an avid comic reader, when I heard Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roxane Gay, and Yona Harvey were teaming up for Black Panther: World of Wakanda, I was thrilled. I went into my local comic shop and buzzed about it with the staff, also packed of anticipation. Coates's Black Panther run has been incredibly victorious , and each novel issue sat at the top of my stack, but World of Wakanda was even more stimulating. I've been a Bad Feminist devotee since its release and an active Twitter follower of Roxane Gay. Yona Harvey's poetry teaches me a distillation and gravitas that few poets can. Rarely hold my nerd-self and my academic-literary-self both been so fed at the matching time. Gay and Harvey are the first black female team at Marvel (and indeed, the first black female writers at Marvel), and World of Wakanda is centered on the black female experience in the fictional nation.
Set before the events of Black Panther, Gay's story explores the Dora Milaje, trained warriors who safeguard the Black Panther and the royal family. Aneka and Ayo's romantic relations
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What I wasn't ready for was seeing Roxane Gay credited as the author, right there on the front cover. I squeaked, internally, "NO WAY! She writes comics now?"
I should have learned my lesson with Margaret Atwood. The answer to my question is, "No. No, she doesn't write comics. She lends credibility to the work with her name and that's about it."
Coates was a consultant for this one since t
'Bad feminist' Roxane Gay to write fresh Marvel Black Panther series
Feminist critic Roxane Gay is to co-write the modern Black Panther comics series, saying that “the opportunity to write about inky women in a Marvel comic was an opportunity I could not transfer up”.
Gay’s first venture into comics, Ebony Panther: World of Wakanda, will observe her working alongside Ta-Nehisi Coates, another newcomer to comics whose Black Panther story debuted in April. Coates’s comic, set in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, following the adventures of the superhero Jet Panther, or T’Challa, has gone on to become a bestseller. It sold more than 250,000 copies in the first month after its release in the US, and sold out completely in the UK.
Gay’s story, drawn by Alitha Martinez with covers by Afua Richardson, will pursue the lovers Ayo and Aneka, former members of the Black Panther’s female security force, the Dora Milaje. The series expansion will also see the poet Yona Harvey co-writing another story with Coates.
Coates said he had been “shocked by the sheer number of people who pic