Marvel adds more novelists to their writing stable

Stephen King wasn't the only "prose" author making news at Marvel this week. They also announced that Eric Jerome Dickey would be writing a Storm mini-series, due in February:

Dickey's Storm story arc will present an epic romance, revealing the untold love story of the world's two most popular African American Super Heroes, Ororo (also known as Storm of the X-Men) and T'Challa (a.k.a. The Black Panther), the world's first African American Super Hero. Marking Dickey's first comic book writing effort, the captivating series blends romance and adventure against the backdrop of Africa's cruel plains. Emerging star David Yardin (Black Panther, District X) will illustrate the books.

Now if you're like me, you might be asking, "Who the heck is Eric Jerome Dickey?" Well, the Great Curve is here to inform (with a little help from Google and Amazon). Per his Website, Dickey is, "the national best-selling author of Naughty or Nice, The Other Woman, Thieves' Paradise, Between Lovers, Liar's Game, Cheaters, Milk in My Coffee, Friends and Lovers, and Sister Sister, as well as a contributor to Got to Be Real and NAL's Mothers & Sons. He worked as a computer programmer, a middle school teacher, actor, and stand up comic before becoming a full-time novelist." Six of his books have appeared on the New York Times best seller list.

Per Amazon, his latest book, Genevieve, is a "sex-drenched melodrama with an instantly engrossing story about a couple whose marriage is tested by secrets both familial and sexual."

So it will be interesting to see how a master of "sex-drenched melodrama" tackles Storm and Black Panther. I always thought those two crazy kids belonged together.

In addition, Marvel has announced that novelist David Morrell, the creator of Rambo, will write a Captain America project next year.

With a complex body of work that traverses the Horror, Espionage and Thriller genres, Morrell is a giant in the literary world. He is the author of First Blood, the award-winning novel in which Rambo was created. He has written numerous best-selling thrillers, including The Brotherhood of the Rose (the basis for a highly rated NBC mini-series), The Fifth Profession, Extreme Denial and Assumed Identity. Most recently, he wrote the dark suspense-thriller Creepers (CDS Books, September 2005). Two of his novellas received Stoker awards from the Horror Writers Association.

I can hear Cap now: "Fury ... I'm coming to get you."