Big news today. Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing Black Panther for Marvel. That got us to thinking 13 QUICK THOUGHTS …
Coates happens to be a big comics fan, too, which is rad. But let’s play a game of What If? as they often do in the Marvel Universe:
Here are 13 other literary heavyweights we want to see in comics — along with the title we’d like to see them write:
1. Junot Diaz on the New Gods
2. Margaret Atwood on Cable
3. Salman Rushdie on Doctor Strange
4. Philip Roth on Spider-Man
5. Roddy Doyle on Daredevil
6. Cormac McCarthy on Jonah Hex
7. Haruki Murakami on Animal Man
8. Toni Morrison on Wonder Woman
9. Karl Ove Knausgard on Captain America
10. Milan Kundera on Superman
11. Anthony Doerr on the Fantastic Four
12. Joyce Carol Oates on Wildcat
13. Orhan Pamuk on Batman — I mean, he even drew a cover for Chip Kidd’s Batman: Black and White exhibit:
