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Is Ta-Nehisi Coates Writing A New Comic Book For Marvel?
We are experiencing a lull in African-American writers at this moment, but it is temporary. We will be announcing new series very soon that will prove that. I'm talking about new voices, familiar voices and one writer whose voice is heard round the world
There are still plenty more titles to be announced as part of the All-New, All-Different Marvel, and as they continue to roll out, I believe that you'll see the evidence of our commitment to creator representation among the creative teams as well as our characters
And Tom tweeted…
And that is Ta-Nehisi Coates, senior editor for The Atlantic, where he also writes a rather well regarded blog, winning him the 2012 Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism from The Sidney Hillman Foundation.
And Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote,
One reason why I still enjoy books, including comic books, is that there's still more room for a transgressive diversity. If Greg Pak wants to create an Amadeus Cho, he doesn't have to worry about whether America is ready for a Korean-American protagonist. Or rather, he doesn't have to put millions of dollars behind it. I don't know what that means to a young, Asian-American comic books fan. But when I was eight, the fact that Storm could exist—as she was, and in a way that I knew the rest of society did not accept—meant something. Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected. Monica Rambeau was my first Captain Marvel. James Rhodes was the first Iron Man I knew.
I never read One More Day. I generally hated the notion that you couldn't have a grown-up superhero, and I did not hate it just because I was grown-up: I would have hated it when I was 12. The fact of it was I idolized grown-ups. One More Day felt like an erasure of what had been one of its more unintentionally bold endeavors—the attempt to allow a superhero to grow up, to be more than Peter Pan, to confront the tragic world as it was, to imagine life beyond what should have been.
You could be Spider-Man. It goes far beyond that, actually. It's not a diversity program, it's because they actually made a decent black character. [Bendis] really did it in a great way. When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that I wanted Peter Parker to be black. I didn't even think about it.
And he tweeted
https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/status/562307403321208832
And he really likes Secret Wars…
https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/status/617359531258040320
I wonder what he'll write next?
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