World of Wakanda - Roxane Gay to write new Black Panther series debuting in November

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EW is reporting on a new Black Panther spin-off co-written by award-winning author Roxane Gay and the poet Yona Harvey.



The first issue of Women of Wakanda, which is set to launch this November, will feature two different stories. Gay’s will focus on Ayo and Aneka; co-plotted with Coates, it will come out of Black Panther’s explosive “A Nation Under Our Feet” storyline, which has radically shifted the status quo in Wakanda, the high-tech African country ruled by T’Challa.

Shot of the Ayo and Aneka from Black Panther 1



“The opportunity to write black women and queer black women into the Marvel universe, there’s no saying no to that,” Gay said.

Harvey’s story in the first issue of Women of Wakanda will focus on Zenzi. Coates recruited her for the project because he thought her poetry would be natural fit for the comic book format, he told the Times.

“I have found that poetry is so correlated with writing comic books,” Coates said. “That’s just so little space, and you have to speak with so much power. I thought she’d be a natural.”

Colour me intrigued....

Comments

[lucean]

I thought the name of the book was World of Wakanda?

[aperturedreams]

It is. EW must have screwed up.

[informationgeek]

I'm not familiar with Roxane Gay. Anything of hers worth checking out?

[lilacsigil]

I enjoyed her essays in "Bad Feminist" (like all essay collections it was a mixed bag, but definitely more on the good-to-great side) but AFAIK she hasn't written comics before.

[silverhammerman]

Bringing in new talent like this is exactly what I want to see high profile writers doing, good on Coates. It'd be nice to see more established pros follow his lead in this regard, given that I can think of a few recent Marvel titles which are somewhat notably written by very, very established quantities.

Then again, how ridiculous and sad is it that for Marvel to hire a couple of black women as writers took them being known writers in other fields who were then vouched for by someone already in the comics industry?

[jekylls_salvation]

Where do I track sales of these things to see how they do?