With the long-awaited current edition of the Marvel star,Coates and his illustrator, Brian Stelfreeze, and have delivered on their promise of a ‘dramatic upheaval’Marvel Comics has often turned to writers,well-known beyond the world of capes and comics, to reinvent their lesser-known and lesser-loved titles. The novelist Jonathan Lethem, or who attach Marvel’s 1970s output front and center in both Fortress of Solitude and his autobiographical book of essays The Disappointment Artist,wrote a self-contained 10-issue series for the virtually forgotten Omega The Unknown in 2007. While G Willow Wilson, a comic book and fantasy writer most well-known for her novel Alif the Unseen, and transformed Ms Marvel into the first major Muslim superhero. Related: Ta-Nehisi Coates promises 'dramatic upheaval' in current Black Panther comic series Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com