MARVEL’S VOICES: PRIDE
DYNAMIC DUO
CHARLIE JANE ANDERS ON INTRODUCING TRANS MUTANTS ESCAPADE AND MORGAN RED TO THE MARVEL UNIVERSE
WORDS: STEPHEN JEWELL
JUST AS LAST YEAR’S SPECIAL introduced Somnus, the 20-page lead feature of this month’s Marvel’s Voices: Pride issue one features the debut of not one but two brand-new LGBTQ+ heroes in trans mutants Shela Sexton, aka Escapade, and her constant companion Morgan Red.
“I’d been talking to the Marvel folks for a long time about creating a new character – or set of characters – and I was so overjoyed that the stars finally aligned,” says writer Charlie Jane Anders. “A lot of stuff about Shela and Morgan has been percolating for years, but collaborating with [editors] Sarah Brunstad and Anita Okoye, and artists Ted Brandt and Ro Stein made everything so much better and cooler.”