Will Moss, the editor of the new series, says, “This story will have all the political intrigue of the best episodes of THE WEST WING and HOMELAND, but it’s also going to have the trademark Marvel action and energy that Stan Lee & Jack Kirby built into the foundation of the Marvel Universe”.
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“Wakanda is really the light of the world, in the Marvel Universe”. He turned his attention to rap for about a decade during high school and college but eventually returned to comics.
Columnist Ta-Nehisi Coates has been called America’s foremost public intellectual.
To say that Gayles is excited about Coates’ involvement in continuing T’Challa’s story is an understatement.
Coates is the national correspondent at the Atlantic, where he has covered the subject of race in America with tact and careful analysis. Likewise, Coates’s writing draws richly not only from history but also from the literary style of earlier public thinkers, most conspicuously James Baldwin.
He’s never written a comic book before, but he’s an avid lover of comic-book culture. I want to make a great comic. “It was this handsome place that I felt pop culture should look like”. The series is being planned for a spring 2016 debut.
The Black Panther, centre, with other Marvel superheroes. He will be joined by legendary artist, Brian Stelfreeze, who will be providing interiors and covers. The question was: Would the Panther be in good hands?
In Coates’s case, though, it would be unsurprising if racial identity turns out to be just the tip of the iceberg of what he shares with his superhero. Chadwick Boseman, who played Jackie Robinson in 42, will don the mask and outfit for Disney/Marvel. This is a new series and a new writer will clearly bring new, modern life to the character Black Panther. He was first introduced in a July 1966 issue of The Fantastic Four – incidentally a few months before the Black Panther Party was founded to address police brutality in Oakland.
The indomitable will of Wakanda – the famed African nation known for its vast wealth, advanced technology and warrior traditions – has always been reflected in the will of its monarchs, the Black Panthers.
That tension and conflict is what will fire BLACK PANTHER #1 into a no-holds-barred adventure that will demonstrate why Black Panther is one of the most powerful heroes in the Marvel Universe.
The connection to Marvel entertainment came this May when Coates interviewed Marvel editor Sana Amanat for the New York Ideas seminar. It comes from the 2003 book of the same title by Steven Hahn.
The book will focus on Black Panther dealing with an uprising in the fictional African country, Wakanda.
“They were obviously black, but it was not made into a big deal”, he said. Factory.
“I don’t experience the stuff I write about as weighty”, he said.
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“It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books”, he told The Times. The writing usually lifts the weight.
