Eve Ewing

In all the Marvel-Verse, few young minds are more brilliant than that of teen genius Riri Williams Inspired by Tony Stark, Riri built her own invincible suit of armor -- but she soon stepped out of Stark's shadow to forge her own future as the heroic Ironheart Can Riri combine her studies at M. I. T. with her extracurricular activities -- by which we mean taking down super-villains like the acoustic menace Clash? Plus: Ironheart shares an adventure with her Champions teammate Miles Morales, A. K. A. Spider-Man And a zombie invasion calls for a meeting of minds with her fellow science whiz, the Wasp But what lessons will be learned on a far-out trip to the future, where Riri meets a 126-year old Tony Stark... Earth's Sorcerer Supreme ? COLLECTING: Ironheart (2018) 1, 6-7; Generations: Iron Man & Ironheart (2017) 1; Marvel Legacy Primer Pages

Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical circumstances, and identifies everyday objects - hair moisturizer, a spiral notebook - as precious icons. Her visual art is spare, playful and poignant: a cereal-box decoder ring that allows the wearer to understand what Black girls are saying; a teacher's angry, subversive message scrawled on the chalkboard. Electric Arches invites fresh conversations about race, gender, the city, identity and the joy and pain of growing up.

In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing recovers the essentially human stories at the heart of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919: of the people who took part in it, and of the lives that were marked by it. This most intense of the riots of the USA's 'Red Summer' lasted eight days, resulting in thirty-eight deaths and almost 500 injuries; it was a signal and traumatic event which has now shaped the history of the city where it took place for a century. As well as telling the tale of the riot itself and the cruel murder which precipitated it, the poems of 1919 explore its aftermath and bring to vivid life the mass migrations which had set the stage for this violence in the preceding years. Poetically recounting the stories of everyday people trying to survive and thrive in the city, and using speculative and Afrofuturist lenses to reimagine history, the result is a book which unearths the universal at the heart of the particular, and illuminates the fine line between past and present.