Evan Narcisse

I love the concept: we should definitely celebrate and promote Black superheroes and comic book creators. But this anthology is a chore to read, stuffed full of short stories of one to four pages that barely bother to even name the characters they are about much less do something meaningful with them. Then the trade paperback is filled out with some random six-year-old reprints of first issues from the defunct "Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur" and "Black Panther" series and a fifty-year-old issue of Fantastic Four that doesn't age that well. Frankly, the essays are the best part of the book, which is a sad thing to say about a comic book anthology.

For reference:

Contains material originally published in magazine form as Marvel's Voices (2020) #1, Marvel's Voices: Legacy (2021) #1, Fantastic Four (1961) #119, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2015) #1, Black Panther (2016) #1, Black Panther (2018) #23-25, and Marvel's Voices (2020) #1 [New Printing, 2021].

Contents:

Introduction by Jesse J. Holland

Marvel's Voices (2020) #1
• Introduction by Angélique Roché
• Souls Afire [featuring Doctor Voodoo] / Evan Narcisse, writer; Jahnoy Lindsay, artist
• Race [featuring Forge and Shuri] / Vita Ayala, writer; Bernard Chang, artist
• Black Widow: Be No Evil / Brian Stelfreeze, writer and artist
• A Diamond’s Worth [featuring Emma Frost] / Anthony Piper, writer and artist
• Assemble! [featuring Wiccan and Hulkling] / Luciano Vecchio, writer and artist
• Inspiration [featuring Goddess, Silk and Spider-Man] / James Monroe Iglehart, writer; Ray-Anthony Height with Nate Lovett, artists
• …A Friend Indeed [featuring Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur] / Brandon Montclare, writer; Natacha Bustos, artist
• Perspective [featuring Nick Fury and Ant-Man] / Kyle Baker, writer and artist
• Top of the Key [featuring Mosaic and Fife] / Geoffrey Thorne, writer; Khary Randolph, artist
• What a Wonderful World [featuring Silver Surfer] / Rob Markman, writer; Damion Scott, artist
• Death [featuring Wolverine] / Method Man with Daniel Dominguez, writers; Alitha E. Martinez, artist
• Christmas Blues [featuring Blue Marvel] / Charlamagne tha God with Chris Miles, writers; JJ Kirby, artist
• She-Hulk in Punishment / Roxane Gay, writer; Brittney L. Williams, artist
• Back to Madripool [featuring Wolverine and Hulk] / David F. Walker and Chuck Brown, writers; Sanford Greene, artist
• Afterword by Chris Robinson

Marvel's Voices: Legacy (2021) #1
• Introduction by Nic Stone
• Words Do Matter [featuring Miles Morales, Spider-Man] / John Ridley, writer; Olivier Coipel, artist
• Decompression [featuring Ironheart] / Mohale Mashigo, writer; Christopher Allen, artist
• Panic at the Supermarket [featuring Spectrum] / Stephanie Williams, writer; Natacha Bustos, artist
• Good Luck Girl [featuring Domino] / Tochi Onyebuchi, writer; Ken Lashley, artist
• A Luta Continua: A Tale from the Venomverse [featuring Ngozi] / Nnedi Okorafor, writer; Chriscross, artist
• Nighttime Bodega Run [featuring Blade] / Danny Lore, writer; Valentine De Landro, artist
• Afterword by Angélique Roché
• Marvel Voices: An Essay by Justin A. Reynolds

Marvel's Voices (2020) #1 [New Printing, 2021]
[This reprint included the original stories above and the additional essays below]
• Marvel Voices New Printing Introduction by Angélique Roché
• Lift Every Voice [Essay] by John Jennings
• Seeing Ourselves [Essay] by David Betancourt
• Applied Science [Essay] by Tatiana King Jones
• Creating Killmonger: Side by Side with Rich Bucker and Billy Graham [Essay] by Don McGregor
• Growing Up Marvel [Essay] by Regine L. Sawyer
• All the Wright Places [Essay] by Yona Harvey
• The Legacy of Isaiah Bradley: The First Black Captain America [Essay] by Karama Horne
• All I Want for Christmas are 1991 Impel Marvel Trading Cards [Essay] by David Betancourt
• How to Live Your Authentic Self [Essay] by Omar Holmon

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2015) #1
• BFF, Part 1: “repeat after me” / Brandon Montclare and Amy Reeder, writers; Natacha Bustos, artist

Black Panther (2016) #1
• A Nation Under Our Feet, Part 1 / Ta-Nehisi Coates, writer; Brian Stelfreeze, artist

Black Panther (2018) #23 [back-up story only]
• Saint Bodhi [interview]
• Letting Go [featuring Storm] / Saint Bodhi, story; Danny Lore, script; Alitha E. Martinez, art

Black Panther (2018) #24 [back-up story only]
• Bobby Sessions [interview]
• Affirmations [featuring Black Panther] / Bobby Sessions, story; Danny Lore, script; Alitha E. Martinez, art

Black Panther (2018) #25 [back-up story only]
• Kaash Paige [interview]
• Perspective [featuring Shuri] / Kaash Paige, story; Danny Lore, script; Alitha E. Martinez, art

Fantastic Four (1961) #119
• Three Stood Together! [co-starring Black Panther] / Roy Thomas, writer; John Buscema, artist; Joe Sinnott, inker

[Interviews from Marvel's Voices podcast, edited for brevity]
An Interview with Jason Reynolds by Angélique Roché
An Interview with Ira Madison III by Angélique Roché
An Interview with Roxane Gay by Angélique Roché
Eve L. Ewing Interview, S3 Marvel’s Voices by Angélique Roché

Speaking to the Future, Echoing into Tomorrow [Essay] by Evan Narcisse

Variant cover gallery / Trevor von Eeden, Olivier Coipel, Sanford Greene, Brian Stelfreeze, Damion Scott, Natacha Bustos, Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe, Ken Lashley, and Ernanda Souza, artists… (mehr)