Former Washington City Paper author to write Black Panther comic

Ta-Nehisi Coates to Write Black Panther Comic for Marvel

By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES

SEPT. 22, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/books/ta-nehisi-coates-to-write-black-panther-comic-for-marvel.html

and The Post has thoughts on this.

Marvel Comics was smart to hire Ta-Nehisi Coates to write Black Panther. Here's why.

By David Betancourt
September 23 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/09/23/heres-why-marvel-comics-is-smart-to-hire-ta-nehisi-coates-to-write-black-panther/

Ta-Nehisi Coates, 'Black Panther' and superhero diversity [in print as Black Panther gets the hero he needs].

By Yanan Wang
Washington Post's Morning Mix blog September 23 2015, and Express (September 24): 47.
online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/23/ta-nehisi-coates-black-panther-and-superhero-diversity/

Personally, and with all due respect to Coates who's a very good writer, I'm not sure about this trend of having to have black creators write black characters. It feels like reverse-tokenism to me, although I'm sure everyone involved has only the best of reasons.