Also adding color to their roster of writers is certainly a move in the right direction.

The comic book publisher named 9-year-old Lunella Lafayette aka Moon Girl as hands-down, the smartest person in the Marvel Universe at a “Women of Marvel” panel during San Diego’s Comic Con-which is absolute fact since it’s well established that black girls are magic, especially in the intellect department. Black Panther: World of by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Comic Script by), Roxane Gay (Comic Script by), Yona Harvey (Comic Script by), Jack Kirby (Illustrator), Afua Richardson (Artist) Paperback 16.19 17.99 Current price is 16.19, Original price is 17.99. The announcement continues Marvel's string of efforts to diversify its 9,000 plus character universe. “World of Wakanda” also has an extension that Harvey will write, presenting the backstory of Zenzi, the revolutionary who started a riot in the first issue of “Black Panther.” Dont Forget Roxane Gay (and Queer Superheroes), Hollywood The bisexual writer of World of Wakanda reflects on queer erasure, representation, and the media reaction to her lack of invitation to. Gay adds, “The opportunity to write black women and queer black women into the Marvel Universe, there’s no saying no to that.” See below: The spinoff series was written in 2016.

“The women in Black Panther’s life are very, very important,” Coates says. Roxane Gay, a New York Times bestselling author and the writer of the Black Panther spin-off comic book series, was not invited to the premiere. Roxane was the first black woman to ever write for Marvel, writing a comic series in the Black Panther universe called World of Wakanda. We caught a glimpse of what could be in store for the comic in film Captain America: Civil War when actress Florence Kasumba, who played Black Panther’s Security Chief, delivered fierce, one-liner “Move or you will be moved.” Might it provide some inspiration?

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