Nigerian-American science fiction writer and 2016 Quartz Africa Innovator, Nnedi Okorafor, announced on Twitter that she’ll be penning an eight-page comic for Marvel’s forthcoming Venomverse anthology, which is slated to come out in September 2017.
My 1st story with Marvel, an 8-page comic called BLESSING IN DISGUISE, will be in the forthcoming Venomverse anthology. It's set in Lagos.
— Nnedi Okorafor, PhD (@Nnedi) August 11, 2017
The comic, called Blessing in Disguise, is set in Lagos; and it features a girl named Ngozi (a name that means Blessing) along with popularly-known Marvel characters: Venom Symbiote, Black Panther, and the Rhino. Venomverse will succeed the popular Spider-Verse which came out in 2015. It’s based on the Venom storyline from Spiderman, and will also include characters like Deadpool and Mary Jane.
Nnedi has been having a phenomenal year: in July, HBO revealed it is turning her novel, Who Fears Death, into a series with Game of Thrones creator George R. R. Martin signed on as a producer, and she also recently announced that she was one of the 40 writers selected to contribute to the upcoming Star Wars 40th anniversary publication.
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