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Geoffrey Thorne And Khary Randolph Create Mosaic For Marvel Comics, And Give Away A Freebie From Barnes & Noble

Published Mon, 20 Jun 2016 14:48:28 -0500

Last updated Mon, 20 Jun 2016 17:09:13 -0500

Bleeding Cool was the first to tell you that Marvel had plans for something called Mosaic. Now, after a series of public teasers that tied the book in with Uncanny Inhumans, Vulture has been given the PR.

Mosaic is Marvel's latest antihero, who will be debuting in that issue. Then, come October, he's going to star in his own ongoing series, written by Geoffrey Thorne and drawn by Khary Randolph.

That book, Mosaic, will follow the exploits of a man named Morris Sackett. He starts out as a beautiful and successful professional basketball player, a selfish jerk, and — unbeknownst to him — a latent Inhuman. For those not up on their Marvel lore, Inhumans are people with unrealized superpowers who only manifest their special abilities after being exposed to something called the Terrigen Mist. Once that happens to Morris, he finds he no longer has his handsome body. Instead, he's become a free-floating entity that needs to occupy other people's bodies in order to survive.

In addition to the ongoing series, Thorne and Randolph — who created the character — are putting out a ten-page Mosaic origin story that will be available for free on August 6 at Barnes & Noble stores.

Thorne says, regarding the character,

"Minority" characters are generally not allowed to have this nuance. Because they are relatively few, when they appear they have to be paragons of good or face some sort of social backlash. Morris is, frankly, more complex than that. His complexity is what makes him unique. To me, at any rate. I'm very pleased Marvel is letting me make Morris the fully rounded person that he needs to be for the story to work.

But it does also mean another solo black lead comic book for Marvel to accompany Moon Girl, Black Panther and Captain America: Sam Wilson. It seems another world away, only a few short years ago, when they had none.