Educating non-comics readers about where to find superheroes who look like them would be good for business, she argues. Gay, while she says she had a good experience with Marvel, argues that publishers could do a better job of reaching out to a broader range of readers. That’s what we heard, whether we believe that or not.” They didn’t want female characters out there. Marvel recently cancelled the comic, a decision that came on the heels of a Marvel’s vice president of sales claiming, “What we heard was that people didn’t want any more diversity. Roxane Gay made her first foray into the comic book world last year with World of Wakanda, a spinoff of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther series that featured queer black female characters.
