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Marvel Entertainment, famous for characters like Captain America and Iron Man, has been increasing its diversity lately. They made the new Ms. Marvel a Muslim teenage girl, and one version of Spiderman that is half African-American and half Hispanic. They are continuing this effort with a brand new original character: a pre-teen girl genius.
A Fun And Different Story
The new series is titled Moon-Girl and Devil Dinosaur. The main characters are a pre-teen girl genius named Lunella Lafayette and her best friend – who happens to be a 30-foot dinosaur. The innovative idea comes from an old comic from 1978 about the very intelligent Devil Dinosaur and his caveman pal, Moon-Boy, in a world inhabited by dinosaurs. Instead of Dinosaur World, this new series will be set in modern New York City. The team, compromised of writers Amy Reeder and Brandon Montclare, artist Natacha Bustos, and editors Mark Paniccia and Emily Shaw, is going to focus on Lunella’s character development. She is a special girl but struggles to fit into her environment. “Brandon and I were talking about co-writing books with Marvel,” Reeder said, “and we were really interested in doing something that would be a lot of fun, and that gravitated towards something that wasn’t made yet or wasn’t a main character or popular character for awhile. I like that idea because you get to do a lot with those types of situations. You get to put a lot of creativity into it, and have your voice heard. You’re not quite tied into all the events. So that’s something that attracted us.“
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