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| Black Panther (2016) #1 |
Here we are guys with the issue number one of
Black Panther ongoing which is also a part of “
A Nation Under Our Feet” storyline. We are still looking into
Wakanda and see what’s changed in
Secret Wars. The comic opens up as
T'Challa recalls his past failures against his ancestors, being cast out from his own country and then to have his own people having questioned him about what he’s really trying to do as a King of that nation.
Then we see the
Great Mound where
T'Challa tries to praise the
Vibranium miners for their hard work but someone’s manipulating them. Filling them with hate and trying to start a
Civil War.
T'Challa may question himself but he still knows that he is the
Black Panther and with that he can track anyone through the wind and rain. Because he hasn’t tracked just the body, he tracks the very soul of a person. But then the deceiver’s scent has gone stale sort and he stops his pursuit with a soldier telling him that he must call the rest of the soldiers before it turns into a massacre.
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| War and Hate Spreads |
The comic then cuts to the
Golden City of
Wakanda where sentencing of
Aneka, the former captain of the
Royal Guard for killing a chieftain without evidence for his wrongdoings. And it is then quickly change from black and white to gray when someone she cares about is the one being sentenced, the hooded woman speaks after the sentencing.
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| The Blood-Alloy of Wakanda |
We then find out that the woman is none other than
Ramonda, step-mother to
King T'Challa. She asks his son what happened at the mines. He says that he tried to reason with the workers but it was no use. They were listening to someone else.
Ramonda asks what they should do now and
T'Challa says that he will find her and kill her to stop the madness. But his mother asks if death is always the answer and that
Wakanda has bigger troubles than one person. Such as strife, invasion, flood, infiltration and regicide are among other things that he needs to focus on. But
T'Challa decides to handle one problem at a time and
Ramonda says, he should stop chasing ghosts and what really is important and not to lose oneself in the killing, because he isn’t a soldier but a king.
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| A King, Not a Soldier |
Then the panel shifts to a woman in a green and her complex as we see they have agendas too rather than freeing the people of
Wakanda. They are poisoned themselves as new rulers if the uprising works with filling people with rage. We then see former
Dora Milaje,
Aneka is being held in a prison where a breakout is staged by her lover
Ayo. Later at the campfire as they contemplate whether they should be doing right now because they are both as good as dead by going against their king and believe that he does not care about
Wakanda anymore.
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| The Midnight Angels! |
We cut to the burial site of the previous
Black Panthers, known as
Necropolis where
T'Challa ponders how long must he divided by his own people, to be hated by his own blood. And as the book ends we see
T'Challa try to resuscitate his own sister
Shuri.
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| Departure of Blood |
It was a great first issue we see
T'Challa think about what’s currently going on with
Wakanda and how he copes with everything being a ruler that no one loves or even likes anymore because they just say that he’s just doing this for his own selfish reasons and not care for the people of his own, like he shifts from the previous
Black Panthers and we see the inner struggles that has divided
T'Challa from his own countrymen to the rest of the world. And he’s also lonely as these family things torn him apart. We see that
Shuri is still dead for the most part and he is constantly trying to bring her back at the end. I do like that and we will see what happens next. It’s basically a
Civil War. In a
Civil War, whistle blowers are rallying up the common folks for no apparent reason or their own agendas which is here we’re trying to claim the throne for themselves, which I also love. Can’t wait for the next issue of this
Marvel Comics series but the arc’s a little iffy for me to give this issue a high praise but writer
Ta-Nehisi Coates and artist
Brian Stelfreeze (
Domino,
Wednesday Comics) really pulled it nicely in overall.
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