Black Bolt will be getting his first ever solo series! Black Bolt will be written by Saladin Ahmed, the novelist nominated for a Hugo Award for his 2012 fantasy novel Throne of the Crescent Moon. The new series finds the royal hero imprisoned among some of the worst criminals in the galaxy and cut off from communicating with his family. He’ll be forced to make some unlikely allies in order to get to the bottom of incarceration.
Ahmed gave some insight on the series to i09, stating,
“I won’t get too much into the backstory, but we start the series with Black Bolt helpless. Helpless and locked up. And that’s not a position he’s used to being in.
He gave some additional insight into his character,
“Black Bolt has been—he’s kind of an odd character, because he’s been around in the Marvel Universe for fifty years. He was created by, you know, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby back in the day. And the Inhumans have always been this sort of interesting, almost ‘cult’ thing, in the Marvel Universe. They’ve never been as famous as the X-Men or The Hulk, or Spider-Man, or anything like that. For more kinda hardcore Marvel nerds, they’re these touchstone characters. I don’t want to say ‘hipster,’ [laughs] a hipster test—but if you know who the Inhumans are, then you’re sort of like, on the inside. So, the challenge is bringing him to new readers. He’s this kind of strange, sort of ‘60s cosmic Marvel character. Very much a creation of his time.”
Are you looking forward to a Black Bolt series?
