Due to the huge success of Marvel’s Black Panther (2018), the company has announced they are going to release a limited series based on the life of villain Erik Killmonger.
To be released this December, writer Bryan Edward Hill and artist Juan Ferreyra will delved into the background and motivations of the popular villain with a five-issue series.
“I didn’t want to just recap what we had heard in his mythology. I wanted to explore the choices and the failures that lead a person to dedicate their life to revenge, and how that happens. Because with Erik, I feel like it’s really a tragedy. It’s a story of a guy who was failed a lot by Wakanda in certain ways, by the people he met outside of Wakanda, by his own conscience in other ways, and I wanted to paint a portrait of that.”
Bryan Edward Hill gave a glimpse of his creative process writing for the new series during a recent interview
“I can say that the events of the stories for the most part begin with Erik graduating from MIT. Like all stories, it begins with him having a fork in the road in front of him. He’s a young man who could have a successful and peaceful life if he could just put away his desire for revenge.”
The main focus of the story will be on Erik’s hunt for Ulysses Klaw and the other men who dragged him away from Wakanda as a child. Check the potential first cover of the series below