io9 senior author Evan Narcisse has been spell about comics for over a decade , but over the past several months , you may have noticed his thoughtful essays on the Big Two comics publishers are missing . That ’s because Evan has gone from write about comics to writing one himself — namely , procession of the Black Panther , a new series wait at the shaping old age of the Marvel hero .
I lined up an interview with Evan — which is to say , I tell him to stop working on whatever he was writing to do my question — for details on the series , which acts as a prequel to the main Black Panther serial , drop a line by Pulitzer Prize - get ahead writer Ta - Nehisi Coates . ( Note : It is sort of unenviable yet hilarious to question someone you work with every mean solar day . )
io9 : How did Rise of the Black Panther come about ? Were you trying to moonlight on me ?
Narcisse : The task come about when I buzz off a text from Ta - Nehisi [ Coates ] . After read a really in - depth audience I did about his run on the title of respect , editor Wil Moss ask him to reach out to see if I ’d be concerned in work on a Black Panther project .
Is this form of a Black Panther : Year One ?
Narcisse : Do n’t give the Distinguished Competition ’s effectual department a reason to see for me , Rob … but yes , this is essentially the narration of T’Challa ’s first twelvemonth as world-beater , where he makes the conclusion to terminate centuries of privacy and let the reality know about Wakanda . It ’s a choice that angers many in Wakanda and pull in the attention of the globular community on Earth-616 .
How are you closely are you work with Ta - Nehisi Coates on this , and how much will it connect to his main Black Panther series ?
Narcisse : Most of the major plot heartbeat are coming from me . Once we all agreed on the frame of the report electric arc , I ’ve been in invariant contact with Ta - Nehisi about ways for this serial to ponder who T’Challa is in the present day . There ’s a bit of thematic irony here because Ta - Nehisi ’s first story arc regard an instance of change where T’Challa represent the historical status quo . In Rise of the Black Panther , he ’s the one rise against what ’s always been done . He get from being a Johnny of sorts to being the governance .
Any cool tidbit you could tell me about the serial without Marvel ’s sound department a reason to bet for you ?
Narcisse : I want to show a little windowpane of how Wakandan engineering has germinate over the decades . There may or may not be giant Panther mechs by the time this is all done .
gravely , how emotional are you to fundamentally be make Black Panther ’s plastic years ?
Narcisse : Man , I ca n’t overstate how excited I am to write this particular storyline . The Black Panther has always been my favorite superhero character . The first issuance focalise on a character reference that I ’ve enquire about for ages as a devotee and now I get to be the one to catch one’s breath life into that persona .
What else do you desire masses to know about Rise ?
One of the questions that faces smutty funnies fans , critics , Divine — or those from other marginalized groups — is this quandary of what to do with what we ’ve inherited . The characters with mussy , contradictory , well - think executions and lovingly remembered embarrassment . How do you pull that into the future so that it ’s something that ’s enjoyable , something that can survive and flourish ? It ’s a question I portion out with in my career and T’Challa faces it , too , in a unlike way .
Although we made certain to deflect Evan having likely conflicts of interestingness , I ’m going to unprofessionally allow myself a abbreviated present moment of bias , and say I ’m terrifically excited by this , both as Evan ’s Quaker and as a comics buff . ( But I ’ll also be excited when io9 gets Evan back to his full , funnies criticizing halo , too . )
Rise of the Black Panther # 1 comes out in January 2018 , and may or may not let in gargantuan panther mechs .
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