- DC announced a new editorial line-up including more female creators (Ming Doyle writing Constantine, swoon) and more female-led books (Black Canary! Starfire! PREZ!).
- I personally am obsessed with the new PREZ, presumably featuring a teenage girl president of the United States, even if I am also extremely skeptical of it.
- Marvel went on THE VIEW to announce a new all-female Avengers book — A-FORCE — written by G. Willow Wilson & Marguerite Bennett and it looks AMAZING.
- And then, Captain Marvel & Ms. Marvel editor Sana Amanat was promoted to Marvel’s new Director of Content & Character Development.
gailsimone ain’t lying. Today is a very good day for women in comics.
Plus!!!
- Cyborg, a prominent black hero, is not only getting his own book, he’s going to be written by a black man (David Walker)!
- Midnighter, a gay hero, is getting his own solo title!
- Annie Wu is drawing Black Canary!
- Starfire is being written and drawn by female creators (Amanda Conner (with Jimmy Palmiotti) and Emanuela Lupacchino, respectively)!
- Chinese-American writer Gene Luen Yang (author of the acclaimed graphic novel The Shadow Hero, which I really want to read) is writing Superman! (And Shadow Hero artist Sonny Liew drawing Dr Fate!)
- Genevieve Valentine, who was originally slated to write only one Catwoman arc, is continuing as the series writer!
- Look at the tonal shift! Bizarro? Bat-Mite?? Prez??? These are not the kind of books I’d have expected to see in the all grimdark, all the time New 52 even a year ago.
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