Why I'm Writing <i>Captain America</i>
And why it scares the hell out of me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Feb 28, 2018
3 minutes
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Two years ago I began taking up the childhood dream of writing comics. To say it is more difficult than it looks is to commit oneself to criminal understatement. Writers don’t write comics so much as they draw them with words. Everything has to be shown, a fact I knew going into the work, but could not truly know until I had actually done it. For two years I’ve lived in the world of Wakanda, writing the title . I’ll continue working in that world. This summer, I’m entering a new one—the
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