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Post by mr. excellent on Jul 25, 2016 17:09:08 GMT -5
So I'm currently reading Ta-Nehisi Coates' Black Panther story, which is said to influence what they'll do in the Black Panther movie. In reading what the author's take is going to be, I'm definitely interested. At this point, however, I'm 3 issues in and I haven't really been wowed with what they've done. Nothing wrong with the book, but there's a lot of foundation being laid, and I haven't felt any big payoff yet. Not everyone feels like that though. These are the first Black Panther comics I've read, outside of the Civil War story arc which I absolutely loved. Anyone else read Black Panther books? What were they, and what did you all think?
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Post by mr. excellent on Jul 28, 2016 23:38:41 GMT -5
I just finished issue 4, and I liked it a lot more now. For some reason I really appreciated the prose in this issue, which are pretty much the same as the prior 3. Maybe the story is just picking up for me? Kind of a sucker for romance, and there was a hint of that when T'Challa's mom went to speak with an old mentor who's now a professor of philosophy in one of their universities.
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Post by mr. excellent on Dec 18, 2016 18:17:27 GMT -5
So I'm up to and thru issue 8 now. I've enjoyed it. Still not at the edge of my seat, but the prose continue to be a source of enjoyment and I like the angle Coates is taking to tell the story. You can tell he's enjoying the exploration between BP's relationship with the Wakandan people. There's some cool spiritual stuff in there, as well as showcasing of BP's abilities as a hero who uses his brain in a fight, just as much (if not more so) than his brawn.
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Post by brotherandbassist on Dec 18, 2016 20:47:43 GMT -5
I might have to check that out. I've been thinking about subscribing for a few months to Marvel Unlimited. Do you guys think it's worth it? It's ten bucks a month and you get to read unlimited comics.
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Post by mr. excellent on Dec 18, 2016 22:10:02 GMT -5
Seems worth it to me. A friend of mine had a subscription, maybe still does. They seemed to enjoy it.
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Post by brotherandbassist on Dec 20, 2016 13:28:06 GMT -5
That's the common consensus among comic readers. I asked this question on a comic book collecting facebook group as well. Some of them branded me as a blasphemous heretic for even considering a comic that's not paper back, but most of them said digital was more practical and would save me money. Black Panther is definitely something I want to read more anyway, and this would give me an opportunity to have access to every issue and not just miscellaneous ones. If you get an account on Marvel.com and just do some simple tasks like follow them on twitter and watch trailers for some of their Netflix series, it gives you points, and if you accumulate enough points, you eventually get a free digital comic book. I personally unlock Doctor Strange #1 from the new 2016 series, but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet
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Post by mr. excellent on Jul 16, 2018 1:30:30 GMT -5
I just finished reading issues 1-6 of "World of Wakanda". It's written by Roxane Gay and Ta-Nehisi Coates. It's a companion series to Coates' Black Panther run. As far as companion series go, I think it's pretty solid. It definitely provides context for what was going on leading up to and during the events of Coates run. Namely, the book is about how the Dora Milaje broke away from serving T'Challa, and then came to support him again once he proved himself to the nation. The book does a good job in fleshing out the life experience of a Dora in how she fulfills her duties in service to her country. I could definitely come back for more if the following issues continued to be as interesting (IMO) as the first six.
One of the things I found interesting about Marvel Studio's Black Panther film is how it was using the current comics stories as an inspiration. Likely, literally the current issues as they were coming out in real time. It was probably the case that writer/director Ryan Coogler and his supporting team were consulting with Coates to see where he was going to be taking the characters, but when has that ever happened? Usually, or at least from what I've observed, the studio will look to classic arcs to inform whatever their take will be. So I thought that was cool.
I don't know if Coates is finished writing Panther books by now, but they definitely wrote stories that could influence future installments from the world of Wakanda on film.
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Post by mr. excellent on Oct 15, 2019 17:44:09 GMT -5
Yeah, I hear you. Black Panther is a book I should be fully into, but the way that it's written, no matter how sophisticated, just hasn't piqued my interest the way other books do. Even still, I want to go back and read more. Also, I've only ever read Coates' BP series, so I honestly don't know what else is out there.
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