Roxane Gay will be joining Ta-Nehisi Coates to further bring life to Marvel comic’s Black Panther.
The “Bad Feminist” author was tapped to write a Black Panther “companion” series — World of Wakanda— that will run alongside the storyline Coates will be writing, The New York Times reports.
She will be working with poet Yona Harvey on the project.
“It’s the most bizarre thing I’ve ever done, and I mean that in the best possible way,” she told the Times.
Gay will use the opportunity to explore the lives of black women and queer black women. The storyline follows Ayo and Aneka, two former members of Black Panther’s female security force.
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Black Panther’ is the Best Selling Comic of the Year
“The women in Black Panther’s life are very, very important,” Coates said on why he recruited Gay and Harvey. The first issue of World of Wakanda will include a 10-page second story by Harvey about Zenzi, “a female revolutionary who incited a riot in the first issue of the Black Panther series.”
The new series involves other black female writers and illustrators like Alitha Martinez and Afua Richardson.
It is expected this November.
WANT MORE FROM ESSENCE? Subscribe to our daily newsletter for the latest in hair, beauty, style and celebrity news.