Comic-Con 2016: Roxane Gay Is Wrg a Black Panther Spoff | GQ

Contents:

• MARVEL’S EARLIT GAY CHARACTERS INTRODUCED DON MCGREGOR’S BLACK PANTHER COMICS
• IS BLACK PANTHER GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?
• ROXANE GAY, WHO THORED A ‘BLACK PANTHER’ IC, SAYS SHE WASN’T VED TO THE FILM’S PREMIERE
• ROXANE GAY IS WRG A NEW BLACK PANTHER COMIC FOR MARVEL
• MARVEL NCELED ROXANE GAY AND TA-NEHISI COAT’S BLACK PANTHER ICS. THE PROBLEM GO BEYOND MARVEL.
• ROXANE GAY ON BEG THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE LEAD MARVEL WRER: 'WE AREN'T ALLOWED TO FAIL'
• ACCLAIMED AUTHOR ROXANE GAY IS WRG A NEW BLACK PANTHER SPOFF COMIC

MARVEL’S EARLIT GAY CHARACTERS INTRODUCED DON MCGREGOR’S BLACK PANTHER COMICS

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IS BLACK PANTHER GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?

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The relatnship between Taku and Venomm is one of the many highlights of “Panther’s Rage” but may surprise people to learn that om very the begng, McGregor tend both characters as gay.

ROXANE GAY, WHO THORED A ‘BLACK PANTHER’ IC, SAYS SHE WASN’T VED TO THE FILM’S PREMIERE

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ROXANE GAY IS WRG A NEW BLACK PANTHER COMIC FOR MARVEL

I’m remd of how the Static Shock animated seri, Static/Virgil’s bt iend Richie Foley was sentially based on the character Rick Stone who was openly gay the origal Miltone ics. Yet, there was no doubt Richie was gay. “It’ll never e up the show bee ’s Y-7 but as far as I’m ncerned, Richie is gay….

MARVEL NCELED ROXANE GAY AND TA-NEHISI COAT’S BLACK PANTHER ICS. THE PROBLEM GO BEYOND MARVEL.

The way I alt wh Richie’s homosexualy was to wre him aggrsively and unnvcgly announcg his heterosexualy whenever possible (“Wow! It’s not simply the fact that Don McGregor clud a gay relatnship the ics but the powerful sense of validatn he rporated to Taku and Venomm that enable gay rears to see themselv reflected the medium as heroic. This article will exame whether Black Panther is gay, bisexual, or straight and what is the Marvel non.

Wrer Roxane Gay, who thored the Marvel ic Black Panther: World of Wakanda, a sp-off seri om Marvel’s Black Panther ics, tweeted on Monday night that she wasn’t ved to the Los Angel premiere of the new Black Panther film. “My feelgs are real hurt that I didn’t get an ve to the Black Panther premiere, ” Gay wrote on Twter, addg “I’m still thrilled about the movie and n’t wa to see .

” Gay’s World of Wakanda seri, which ran om November 2016 to April 2017, explor other characters, many of them women, who hab the fictnal Ain natn of Wakanda — Black Panther’s home untry and the settg for the new film.

ROXANE GAY ON BEG THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE LEAD MARVEL WRER: 'WE AREN'T ALLOWED TO FAIL'

Gay was specifilly tapped to help wre the pann ic by thor Ta-Nehisi Coat, the wrer behd the succsful 2016 relnch of the Black Panther ics. “When we started thkg about wrers, [Gay] popped up right away, ” he told the New York Tim Chadwick Boseman, who stars as Black Panther the new film, told Vany Fair a 2016 terview that Coat’ Black Panther seri was credibly fluential makg the film. He add that director and -wrer Ryan Coogler had read Coat’ ic seri, focg pecially on the women characters — whose rol were later expand Gay’s sp-off.

Clary/Getty ImagCoat, Gay and poet Yona Harvey all llaborated on the World of Wakana seri, which was crilly acclaimed but was nceled after jt six issu had been published. Gay has said she left Marvel on good terms.

In an terview wh Time after World of Wakanda’s ncellatn, she said she thought Marvel uld have done more to reach out to non-ics dienc to promote her seri, but that she had an “an overall great experience workg wh Marvel” and hoped to wre for them has not yet rpond to a requt for ment about Gay’s apparent excln om the star-studd Black Panther premiere on Monday night, and has not yet nfirmed if any of the ics’ thors were ved to the event.

ACCLAIMED AUTHOR ROXANE GAY IS WRG A NEW BLACK PANTHER SPOFF COMIC

When asked on Twter if any of the other wrers volved the var Black Panther seri has been ved to the premiere, Gay rpond, “I actually don’t know. Crilly acclaimed wrer, cric, and teacher Roxane Gay's reer is about as wild and varied as they has already tablished herself as one of the most proment lerary voic of the : Her work has appeared The New York Tim, Salon, and var lerary journals, addn to several books of her own. And now, e November, she'll jo award-wng poet and profsor Yona Harvey to bee the first two black women to wre a Marvel news via the New York Tim, which announced on Friday (cidg wh a rrpondg San Diego Comic-Con panel) that Gay and Harvey will be jog Ta-Nehisi Coat to -wre World of Wakanda, a pann seri to the currently -progrs Black Panther ic Coat wr wh artist Brian Steleeze.

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