In case you missed it, this weekend saw a sad announcement for fans of Captain Marvel: writer Kelly Sue DeConnick announced that she planned on stepping down from the popular comic book series.
Although DeConnick wasn't responsible for the creation of Carol Danvers as Captain Marvel, she made the character popular through her writing for the title, starting in 2012. As the primary writer for the series, Danvers became so big that Marvel announced a film adaptation set for release in 2018. The company also plans on releasing a lot of Captain Marvel-related merchandise soon.
Now, though, DeConnick has stated that it is time for her to leave. But who will take her place? We've put together a list of our five favorite female writers (plus one male) who can continue the legacy that is Carol Danvers as Captain Marvel.
Louise Simonson
Simonson is probably the best of the best when it comes to women writers in comics. Not only did she gives us Power Pack in the 1980s - about a group of children with superpowers - but she also introduced the character Apocalypse in X-Factor in 1986. At one point, Simonson was writing three books for Marvel Comics: Power Pack, X-Factor and New Mutants. She eventually started writing for DC and now mostly works in novels, but wouldn't it be nice to have her back in comics?
Ann Nocenti
Nocenti also cut her teeth as a comics writer with Marvel back in the '80s. Eventually, her work attracted enough attention that she took over Daredevil after Frank Miller's watershed "Born Again" story. She stayed with Daredevil for nearly four years and invented one of Daredevil's most infamous villains, Typhoid Mary. Nocenti recently returned to working on comics and wrote for both the DC New 52 versions of Green Arrow and Catwoman, as well as a new Katana title.
Marjorie Liu
Liu started out as a novelist, but eventually got into comics and gave us everything from NYX, X-23, Dark Wolverine and Astonishing X-Men. Liu wrote for the entire run of X-23 before taking over writing duties on Astonishing X-Men, which included the groundbreaking wedding of Northstar to his boyfriend. Most recently, Liu created a new series for Image, due out later this year, called Monstress.
Kathryn Immonen
Kathryn Immonen started working for Marvel in 2007 on the Hellcat story of Marvel Comics Presents, with her husband Stuart providing artwork. A Patsy Walker: Hellcat miniseries followed that in 2008. The next year, Immonen wrote the award-winning Runaways for Marvel. Most importantly, though, she wrote Heralds, a comic book featuring an all-female cast, and after she took over writing for Journey Into Mystery, she changed the main character in that title from Loki (a male) to Sif (a female).
Devin Grayson
Devin Grayson's first work as a comics writer was in 1997 with Batman Chronicles #7. She continued writing off and on for the title and eventually started writing Catwoman. That led to her writing for Batman: Gotham Knights, which featured strong character-driven stories. She also wrote USER, about a young woman caught up in online games and dealing with how that affects her life offline. After writing for Nightwing and a few Marvel Knights miniseries, Grayson started writing for video games. However, she still returns every now and then to comic books.
Peter David
Who wouldn't love Peter David to return to Captain Marvel? As the Captain Marvel writer in the early 2000's, David proved himself capable of balancing the cosmic scope of the character (the Rick Jones version) with his more grounded conflicts. Also, as the writer on Supergirl, he's shown he can write female characters well, and his years of experience, both as a novelist and comics writer, puts him in excellent company. He also has good insight into characters: his work on The Incredible Hulk in the 1980s really looked at the multiple personality disorder of Bruce Banner in a way we hadn't seen before.
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