![]() ![]() Gay, author of the essay collection Bad Feminist, the thriller An Untamed State and the forthcoming memoir Hunger, is an associate professor of English at Purdue University. ![]() The series expansion will also see the poet Yona Harvey co-writing another story with Coates.Ĭoates said he had been “shocked by the sheer number of people who picked up” the new Black Panther series, and that Gay was “the perfect person to begin the literary excavations deep, rich world” of Wakanda. Gay’s story, drawn by Alitha Martinez with covers by Afua Richardson, will follow the lovers Ayo and Aneka, former members of the Black Panther’s female security force, the Dora Milaje. It sold more than 250,000 copies in the first month after its release in the US, and sold out completely in the UK. 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. Gay’s first venture into comics, Black Panther: World of Wakanda, will see her working alongside Ta-Nehisi Coates, another newcomer to comics whose Black Panther story debuted in April. ![]()
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