There was the petition seen by Marvel. There was the approach Marvel made. There was all the work, including Eve submitting a spec script outside of her usual and expected working practices. But the origins of poet and playwright Eve L. Ewing getting the Ironheart gig came from a number of tweets made last year, as Brian Michael Bendis, co-creator of Riri Williams and lead creator on the character, was leaving Marvel for DC Comics.
It started with a seeming joke.
when someone starts the change dot org petition for me to write for Marvel I will happily sign on lol
— wikipedia brown aka eve ewing aka lil muji pen (@eveewing) June 22, 2017
Then a little friendly lookalike competition.
I see your Superwoman and I raise you one RiRi Williams aka Iron Man pic.twitter.com/fVv1HRBdjj
— wikipedia brown aka eve ewing aka lil muji pen (@eveewing) December 6, 2016
@Marvel y'all still hiring buzzy black writers or nah https://t.co/ODd7N98Ijs
— wikipedia brown aka eve ewing aka lil muji pen (@eveewing) November 7, 2017
What's the hashtag for the campaign to make @eveewing the new writer of IronHeart? Eve on that book is all I want for every Christmas.
— Tochi Onyebuchi (@TochiTrueStory) November 7, 2017
I would actually love to do this and I think I got the chops as much as any other crossover writer whose taken on a Marvel title recently. I've done self-study of narrative technique in comics for years. I've read Eisner, McCloud, Barry, Brunetti. #ijs https://t.co/5fLFyG4v6k
— wikipedia brown aka eve ewing aka lil muji pen (@eveewing) November 7, 2017
Also Riri Williams has my haircut and general mode of dress pic.twitter.com/1jebqRbBUi
— wikipedia brown aka eve ewing aka lil muji pen (@eveewing) November 7, 2017
Literally these are my clothes lol pic.twitter.com/6xYJ1rRYOd
— wikipedia brown aka eve ewing aka lil muji pen (@eveewing) November 7, 2017
shot of my bookshelf pic.twitter.com/IPZkgivUAf
— wikipedia brown aka eve ewing aka lil muji pen (@eveewing) November 7, 2017
shot of another bookshelf of mine pic.twitter.com/YsxboDHMzG
— wikipedia brown aka eve ewing aka lil muji pen (@eveewing) November 7, 2017
Thanks @ElielLucero for being the first person to put my name out there for this :)
— wikipedia brown aka eve ewing aka lil muji pen (@eveewing) November 7, 2017
And a hashtag was born
That there is a hashtag 😭😭😭 I love you fam
— wikipedia brown aka eve ewing aka lil muji pen (@eveewing) November 7, 2017
Because sometimes the internet is the best place, @tirhakahlove made a petition to get Marvel to let me take over Invincible Iron Man. #IronHeartEve 😭😭😭🙏🏾 THE FEELS https://t.co/LKGfJo9pnT
— wikipedia brown aka eve ewing aka lil muji pen (@eveewing) November 7, 2017
And a petition launched by Tirhakah Love.
This petition has gotten over 1000 signatures in less than a day!! I'm so honored to have my name in this important conversation.
also I really would like to do it 😇 #IronHeartEve https://t.co/cUa2VoXFTi
— wikipedia brown aka eve ewing aka lil muji pen (@eveewing) November 8, 2017
Lol. @ClintSmithIII saw this, was unaware of the context, and was like "wow someone made some awesome drawings of Eve" pic.twitter.com/tINrVsDvx1
— wikipedia brown aka eve ewing aka lil muji pen (@eveewing) November 8, 2017
And the rest is history…