Ta-Nehisi Coates Archives

A few things to note about these first few pages of Black Panther #1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze. First, it is very much set in Marvel continuity, based on what has come before A different approach to, say, Reginald Hudlin's reworking of the character a few years ago. A Nation Under Our Feet subtitled "Black Political Struggles[...]

Famously only attended by Marvel creators who have signed exclusive contracts with the publisher (even if not everyone is told it at the time), this also might indicate that Ta-Nehisi Coates is an exclusive Marvel comics creator He attended, alongside G Willow Wilson, Brian Bendis, Dan Slott, James Robinson, Tom Brevoort, Dan Buckley, Sam Humphries, Nick Spencer,  Emily[...]

Not the least, Ta-Nehisi Coates Take it away sir… @tanehisicoates Be honest, everything else was just the set-up to get the Marvel gig, right? — colbycakes (@colbycakes) September 22, 2015 https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/status/646377502655561728 https://twitter.com/emarty/status/646379733844930560 https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/status/646380413808738305 @tanehisicoates Do you have a recommendation of a particular Black Panther arc/series to get into the character? — David Glickman (@sublimebombast) September 22, 2015 https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/status/646381614415630336 'Black Panther' #1 Hip Hop Variant[...]

At the beginning of last month, Bleeding Cool asked if Ta-Nehisi Coates was writing a comic book for Marvel.

Let's talk! tbrevoort@marvel.com — Tom Brevoort (@TomBrevoort) May 21, 2015 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,[...]