Marvel Comics has assembled a talented group of diverse creators to tell tales of adventure and ambition in Marvel’s Voices, a fresh collection from celebrated storytellers commemorating Black History Month. In a new one-shot anthology based on the acclaimed Marvel podcast, artists and writers from across the creative spectrum bring their unique perspectives to more than a dozen new superhero tales starring X-Men, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Black Panther, and more. Marvel’s Voices brings together the distinctive talents and techniques of innovators including Method Man of the Wu-Tang Clan, queer Afro-Latinx writer, Vita Ayala, writer, filmmaker, and publisher, David F. Walker, and bestselling Bad Feminist author, Roxanne Gay in a celebration of African American expression and representation.

Marvel’s Voices, the vision of journalist, moderator, and creator Angélique Roché, began as a podcast in April 2018, examining aspirational viewpoints and artistry within the context of the Marvel Universe. In a series of in-depth and illuminating conversations with diverse artists, actors, athletes, and activists, Marvel’s Voices casts a light on creatives of color in dozens of interviews, stage shows, and exclusive clips. Angélique Roché explains, “Marvel’s Voices strives to give listeners a fun conversation, a one-of-a-kind perspective and a unique insider look at their favorite Marvel stories and storytellers while spotlighting creatives and characters of color.” 

Marvel’s Voices also encompasses an additional series of web essays from cultural luminaries and groundbreaking artists such as John Jennings, illustrator on Octavia Butler’s Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem, podcaster, writer, and “Duchess of Tech” Tatiana King-Jones, and Yona Harvey, author of Marvel Comics’ World of Wakanda and among the first two black women ever to write for Marvel. These mediations on inspiration and community in comics, Afrofuturism and prolific Black inventors, and colonialism and legacy, are collected with 14 brand-new adventures as the podcast goes to print in a new one-shot anthology, Marvel’s Voices #1.

A vibrant complement to both the podcast series and the inspirational web essays, Marvel’s Voices brings together such Marvel talents as Vita Ayala (Ghost-Spider, Morbius: The Living Vampire), Brian Stelfreeze (The Hip-Hop Covers, Domino), David F. Walker (Luke Cage, Deadpool) Geoffrey Thorne (Mosiac, Spider-Geddon), and Natacha Bustos (Black Cat, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur) as well as Roxanne Gay (Black Panther: World of Wakanda), Evan Narcisse (Rise of the Black Panther), and Chuck Brown (Civil War II: Choosing Sides). Marvel’s Voices podcast host Angélique Roché notes, “For the first time ever, some of Marvel Comics’ greatest super heroes—and super fans—have assembled to bring the essence and spirit of Marvel’s Voices to life in the most perfect and appropriate medium … a comic book anthology celebrating Black History Month.”

Marvel’s Voices hits shelves February 19th and the Visions podcast is available for download on Apple and Google Podcasts, and Pandora, Spotify, and Stitcher. 

  • Marvel Voices #1 Written by Vita Ayala, Kyle Baker, Chuck Brown, Roxane Gay, Rob Markman, Method Man, Evan Narcisse, Anthony Piper, Brian Stelfreeze, Geoffrey Thorne, David F. Walker Art by Vita Ayala, Kyle Baker, Natacha Bustos, Roxane Gay, Sanford Greene, Ray, Anthony Height, James Monroe Iglehart, Alitha Martinez, Lenard McKelvey, Method Man, Brandon Montclare, Evan Narcisse, Anthony Piper, Damion Scott, Brian Stelfreeze, Geoffrey Thorne, Luciano Vecchio, David F. Walker  Cover by Ryan Benjamin Variant Covers by Brian Stelfreeze, Damion Scott Variant by DAMION SCOTT Marvel’s acclaimed podcast series focusing on telling the stories of diverse creators and their unique perspectives becomes a one shot of brand new adventures! The X-Men find their place in the world after declaring a new nation! Killmonger strikes! Moon Girl and Devil Dino return!

More: Disney+ Watch List to Celebrate Black History Month

Source: Marvel