Yona Harvey to Give Marvel’s Storm a New Voice

It was announced back in January that Marvel was going to be bringing back The Crew and this time around it would be that all Black super hero super squad of Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Misty Knight and Manifold (Eden Fesi) set in Harlem. Yona Harvey, who wrote her first comic pages in the back of World of Wakanda, issue #1 (she wrote the 12 back pages of Zenzi, the mutant who can inflame people’s emotions), would be teaming up with Coates to bring us a revival many years in the making. We were hyped then. I’m hyped now. Already got the pre-order in at my local comic book shop and you best believe I’mma buy that variant cover too. For the culture. Over the weekend, I read an interview that Harvey gave to Ebony about her excitement and goals for the series, and particularly about her plans to write Storm — she’s the first Black woman to ever do so. Here’s the question that struck me: Ebony: What do you aim to bring to the character that’s unique? Unexpected? Harvey:[quote_simple]It’s hard to answer that while I’m still in the midst of writing Storm. Obviously, I want to write her very well. But I’d love to bring glimmers of Black women poets to Storm’s voice. It’s fun thinking about the poetry of her diction and voice–and the fact that she’s a Black woman in addition to being a mutant.[/quote_simple] I read that one twice. “Bring glimmers of Black women poets to Storm’s voice.” It goes without saying that Storm is a seminal representation in the relationship between Blac…