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Review: Black Panther #1 - Ta-Nehisi Coates, Brian Stelfreeze
It’s a very good time to be a Black Panther fan. T’Challa makes his live-action debut in “Captain America: Civil War” in about a month and there’s a solo film coming in 2018. His first solo comic in years begins this week, just a few months short of the character’s 50th anniversary. The writers behind both the film and comic face the tremendous task of introducing general audiences to this character. Many MCU fans will leave the theater this May and head to comic shops for further reading. This is the book they’ll most likely pick up. The pressure is real.
The good news is: so is the hype. Fans and newcomers alike are very eager to see what Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze have come up with (there have already been over 300,000 orders for the first issue alone!) I got a chance to read that issue over the weekend. Here’s my spoiler-free review:
In interviews and on Twitter, Coates has assured potential readers that they don’t have to study up on the character to understand this new story. So far this seems true. The book opens with a triptych that summarizes some Wakanda-related events that took place during the last ongoing book Black Panther was featured in, Jonathan Hickman’s “New Avengers”. T’Challa and the rest of Marvel’s Illuminati (a group of self-appointed protectors of Earth including Mr. Fantastic, Iron Man & Namor) spent most of that series being pushed to betray everyone around them in attempts to save the planet from inter-dimensional threats.
Compared to some of the others, T’Challa was lucky. His home, once destroyed by Thanos and his Cabal, has been rebuilt. He is the king of Wakanda once again. But he hasn’t escaped all consequences…
As the book opens, we’re introduced to a Panther that has been (literally) bloodied, but not beaten. Wakandan miners are revolting. T’Challa believes they’ve been manipulated and seeks the source.
This is where we have to pause and talk about the art for a moment. Brian Stelfreeze’s approach to Black Panther and Wakanda itself reflects much of what has always been said about Wakanda but rarely seen. This was always said to be a country that values its traditions even as it races towards the future. Accordingly, we see lots of unique designs and technology that reference both the character’s past and real world history.

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