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Eve Ewing and Kevin Libranda Launch New Riri Williams: Ironheart Series from Marvel in November

Published Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:02:28 -0500

Last updated Tue, 21 Aug 2018 18:20:43 -0500

Eve Ewing is an academic, a poet, and a playwright — and now the new writer of Riri Williams: Ironheart, a new series being launched by Marvel in November, with art by Kevin Libranda.

Riri Williams is the wunderkind from Chicago (like Eve) who reverse engineered Iron Man's costume in school and then built her old model. She starred in the Invincible Iron Man series while Tony Stark was in a coma, alongside an AI version of Tony Stark, and is a member of the Champions team. And now, her own solo book.

Eve tweeted out her reaction as the news broke with the Chicago Tribune.

okay. hi. wow, i'm actually shaky as i write this.

This November, Marvel will launch a solo title featuring Riri Williams, also known as Ironheart.

okay now I'm crying

okay

I am writing the serieshttps://t.co/hELxWLjwPC

— wikipedia brown aka eve ewing aka lil muji pen (@eveewing) August 20, 2018

She told them how while she was touring for her poetry book "Electric Arches" in late 2017.

… she saw an email from Marvel in her inbox. Titled: "Marvel calling," she said she almost fell out of her chair. Asked about her reaction when Marvel welcomed her into the fold, she said, "It's been like a recurring sense of wild emotions."

There were petitions and calls last year for Marvel Comics for Eve to write the character. Looks like someone was listening and thought it was a cracking good idea. She talks to the paper here (if you are in Europe, you will need a workaround).

But she has also taken to Twitter….

never cried so much writing a thread, what's happening

okay

i'm really proud to be doing this & really proud & happy for Riri. she is an awesome character & I'm going to do my best to bring every ounce of Chicago black girl greatness that she deserves and that you all deserve

— wikipedia brown aka eve ewing aka lil muji pen (@eveewing) August 20, 2018

this has been a months-long process and was a very, very hard secret to keep. thank you to everyone at Marvel especially Tom Brevoort and Alanna Smith. Thank you to Tirhakah Love believing in me enough to launch the #IronheartEve petition. Thank you to everyone that signed it.

— wikipedia brown aka eve ewing aka lil muji pen (@eveewing) August 20, 2018

Really, really, really immense gratitude to the cadre of Marvel writers and artists who were like "no but actually this girl has talent." HUGE thanks to Ta-nehisi Coates and Greg Pak who have both been extraordinarily generous with their time, advice, and mentorship.

— wikipedia brown aka eve ewing aka lil muji pen (@eveewing) August 20, 2018

There was a lot of pitching and revision and meetings and calls and pitching and revision and drafting and revision and many opportunities for Marvel to say "actually, no, we're good." I wrote something on spec which I *never* do. But now we're here. And I'm really grateful.

— wikipedia brown aka eve ewing aka lil muji pen (@eveewing) August 20, 2018

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