'Bad feminist' author to write Marvel Black Panther spin-off

A spin-off of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther comics, to be written by Bad Feminist author Roxane Gay and poet Yona Harvey, both real-life black women. BuzzFeed News reported.

Feminist critic Roxane Gay is to co-write the new Black Panther comics series with poet Yona Harvey.

She told New York Times that “the opportunity to write about black women in a Marvel comic was an opportunity I could not pass up”.

"The opportunity to write black women and queer black women into the Marvel universe, there’s no saying no to that,”

Gay also tweeted that it was likely to come out in November.

The recruitment of Gay is part of Marvel’s drive to diversify its offering, both in terms of creators and characters.

Gay’s first venture into comics, Black Panther: World of Wakanda, will see her working alongside 'Between the World and Me' author Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose Black Panther story debuted in April.

Coates’s comic, set in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, following the adventures of the superhero Black Panther, or T’Challa, has gone on to become a bestseller.

It sold more than 250,000 copies in the first month after its release in the US, and sold out completely in the UK.

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