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Award-winning Nigerian sci-fi writer Nnedi Okorafor has announced that she’ll be writing an eight-page comic for Marvel’s forthcoming Venomverse anthology, slated to come out in September 2017.


The comic, called Blessing in Disguise, is set in Lagos; and it features a girl named Ngozi (meaning Blessing), along with popularly-known Marvel characters: Venom Symbiote, Black Panther, and the Rhino. The comic will be illustrated by Tana Ford.

Venomverse is the successor to the popular Spider-Verse which came out in 2015 and it based on Eddie Brock, the Venom symbiote from Spiderman, and will include “Venomized” versions of comic book characters like Deadpool and Mary Jane.

In July, HBO revealed that it is turning Nnedi novel, Who Fears Death, into a series with Game of Thrones creator George R. R. Martin signed on as a producer. She also recently announced that she was one of the 40 writers selected to contribute to the upcoming Star Wars 40th anniversary anthology.

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