John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) and Juann Cabal (Guardians of the Galaxy) will chart the future for T’Challa and Wakanda in a new Black Panther series launching in August. The new series follows Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther run, which concludes later this month. Ridley, once attached to develop a Marvel Television project before that studio was folded into Marvel Studios, made his Marvel Comics writing debut with a short story in Wolverine: Black, White, & Blood. He began writing comics for WildStorm in the early 2000s, most notably The American Way. More recently, he began writing for DC Comics, chronicling the adventures of Luke Fox in The Next Batman and examining DC history from a new perspective in The Other History of the DC Universe. Now he’s lending his voice to an iconic Black superhero made more prevalent in popular by Chadwick Boseman’s depiction of the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
