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MARVEL’S BLACK TEENAGE ENGINEER SUPERHERO COMIC WILL BE WRITTEN BY A BLACK WOMAN SOCIOLOGIST
By Thu-Huong Ha via https://qz.com
Two years ago in the comic book series Invincible Iron Man, Tony Stark met a young super genius named Riri Williams, a black teen who had successfully reverse-engineered his famous armor.
Riri, who uses the super hero codename Ironheart, has since become a fan favorite, and today Marvel announced she’ll be getting her own series, with the first issue due out Nov. 7. Chicago-based writer and sociologist Eve Ewing announced today that she’s writing the series with artist Kevin Libranda.
Ewing is the author of the poetry book Electric Arches and is a professor of sociology, focusing on education, at the University of …