Ta-Nehisi Coates will be taking over Marvel Comics’ Captain America, helming a new series of the comics set to drop on the Fourth of July.
In the essay, Coates, who will continue his work on the Black Panther series, explained his gravitation toward the story of Captain America, a beacon of patriotism and symbol of the “American dream”.
“And Captain America, the embodiment of a kind of Lincolnesque optimism, poses a direct question for me: Why would anyone believe in The Dream?
“Two years ago I began taking up the childhood dream of writing comics,” Coates, 42, writes.