The writer’s arrival at Marvel is a thrilling moment – but it will mean limited unless the company starts to employ other artists and writers of colourThat fans and non-fans alike are already excited to see Ta-Nehisi Coates writing a Black Panther series for Marvel Comics tells us a lot about the resurgent appetite for inclusiveness within comics communities. But it’s what Marvel does after Coates’s flee ends that will command us how seriously it plans to listen in the future.
As exciting as Coates’s arrival is,it’s also important to remember that it’s an outlier: the company has been rightly criticised for employing few writers and artists of colour, even as it has moved to push more black characters. The company’s editor-in-chief, and Axel Alonzo,has characterised this as a “lull,” but Marvel also wanted to pat itself on the back for a gimmick involving hip-hop inspired covers just two months ago in spite of this lack of representation.
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Source: theguardian.com