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theresidentbookworm's review
4.0
The Best Of: Black Panther #10
1. The image of Shuri in her headdress flying down with birds surrounding her to lecture Aneka.
2. Shuri not taking any of Ayo's crap and shutting her right down like the total queen that she is.
3. Shuri's lecture to Aneka. "No. How dare you . You were the guardian of throne and country. And now I, having cast aside my life for you, find the Dora Milaje and their capatain turned jambazi! What has come of you, Aneka? What of your oath to the nation? To me ?"
4. Shuri dishing out a cold slice of reality to the Midnight Angels and being 1000% unapologetic about it. She is officially my favorite Black Panther character.
5. T'Challa and Changamire just sitting in his office and having a chat about philosophy and kings and the dilemma their country faces.
6. Changamire's concern for Ramonda. It wounds me in a way it probably shouldn't.
7. T'Challa coming clean, confessing to making a mistake, and actually apologizing for it. I thought this scene was particularly powerful because so often leaders are afraid to say they're sorry to their people. "I had believed myself superior to my ancestors. But all it took was the proper amount of pain for me to return to the traditions of old. For even thinking such a thing, I am sorry. I apologize to you as a Wakandian, as a human being, and I apologize to my nation."
8. T'Challa also insisting the Changamire admit to some faults of his own.
9. "But we were supposed to be exceptional." "Wakanda is exceptional, Baba. And now, more than ever, we need someone to remind us."
10. Sibling banter between T'Challa and Shuri. I want to see them argue like siblings soon.
1. The image of Shuri in her headdress flying down with birds surrounding her to lecture Aneka.
2. Shuri not taking any of Ayo's crap and shutting her right down like the total queen that she is.
3. Shuri's lecture to Aneka. "No. How dare you . You were the guardian of throne and country. And now I, having cast aside my life for you, find the Dora Milaje and their capatain turned jambazi! What has come of you, Aneka? What of your oath to the nation? To me ?"
4. Shuri dishing out a cold slice of reality to the Midnight Angels and being 1000% unapologetic about it. She is officially my favorite Black Panther character.
5. T'Challa and Changamire just sitting in his office and having a chat about philosophy and kings and the dilemma their country faces.
6. Changamire's concern for Ramonda. It wounds me in a way it probably shouldn't.
7. T'Challa coming clean, confessing to making a mistake, and actually apologizing for it. I thought this scene was particularly powerful because so often leaders are afraid to say they're sorry to their people. "I had believed myself superior to my ancestors. But all it took was the proper amount of pain for me to return to the traditions of old. For even thinking such a thing, I am sorry. I apologize to you as a Wakandian, as a human being, and I apologize to my nation."
8. T'Challa also insisting the Changamire admit to some faults of his own.
9. "But we were supposed to be exceptional." "Wakanda is exceptional, Baba. And now, more than ever, we need someone to remind us."
10. Sibling banter between T'Challa and Shuri. I want to see them argue like siblings soon.
onebookishbabe's review
5.0
My only disappointment with this comic is that it took me MONTHS to read it like W-T-F Deniece! I'm not sure why I didn't read it the moment I received it but let me tell you I'm a Mofo fool for it. This was GREAT! This was better than Great this was Phenomenal and all the many adjectives you can think of to describe it.
I've just now been getting back into reading comics over the last 2-3 years. Honestly the comics I read as a child belonged to my Uncle (may he rest peacefully) and I only read the Archie and Spiderman comics from his collection. So I've missed out on growing up and becoming a hardcore Blerd like many of my peers. So since I didn't read comic there are many superheroes I know NOTHING about and until 2-3 years ago, Black Panther was one of them. It didn't stop me from geeking out at the action packed trailers and spending my coins both in the theater and on the DVD...
Anyway this is probably the best comic I've read since starting back up. Sad thing is I'm currently on a ban from spending money but that won't stop me! I will get the other volumes by hook or crook and I will be up to date on the Ta-Nehisi black panther ASAP. This is the comic that I can actually say will probably have me BROKE going back and buying decade old comics so I can get all the different variations of this story and the HUNDREDS of superheroes I know nothing about. Jesus be a raise and some overtime!
*I Digress*
Read this comic if you haven't, don't be a fool like me. DO NOT BE A FOOL!
I've just now been getting back into reading comics over the last 2-3 years. Honestly the comics I read as a child belonged to my Uncle (may he rest peacefully) and I only read the Archie and Spiderman comics from his collection. So I've missed out on growing up and becoming a hardcore Blerd like many of my peers. So since I didn't read comic there are many superheroes I know NOTHING about and until 2-3 years ago, Black Panther was one of them. It didn't stop me from geeking out at the action packed trailers and spending my coins both in the theater and on the DVD...
Anyway this is probably the best comic I've read since starting back up. Sad thing is I'm currently on a ban from spending money but that won't stop me! I will get the other volumes by hook or crook and I will be up to date on the Ta-Nehisi black panther ASAP. This is the comic that I can actually say will probably have me BROKE going back and buying decade old comics so I can get all the different variations of this story and the HUNDREDS of superheroes I know nothing about. Jesus be a raise and some overtime!
*I Digress*
Read this comic if you haven't, don't be a fool like me. DO NOT BE A FOOL!
jadealmeida's review
3.0
Difficile de juger sur un seul tome. Clairement j'ai envie de lire la suite mais ce premier tome donne tellement d'informations à la fois que pour le moment je me suis juste sentie overwhelmed. A voir pour le prochain tome
nikkibd4033's review
4.0
Really visually appealing, with a lot of the writing sounding almost poetic. An absolutely lovely comic. Still, it was a little bloated with characters - (I had to re-read several parts just to keep everyone straight. But overall was excellent.
savaging's review
I really tried guys. But this whole comic book genre -- it's just a fever dream of constant peril. It's the written equivalent of ornate and flamboyant opera. So many characters, so many costumes, no sense of parsimony. You've never figured out the backstory. There is no place to rest. Kids these days.
I did like how Ta-Nehisi Coates was cynical about state power and monarchism. It's hard to love a superhero who also holds supreme state power (even when he's a black African feline-themed superhero). I was squarely on the side of the revolutionaries. I mean: vengeance ecology meets vengeance feminism? Duh.
I did like how Ta-Nehisi Coates was cynical about state power and monarchism. It's hard to love a superhero who also holds supreme state power (even when he's a black African feline-themed superhero). I was squarely on the side of the revolutionaries. I mean: vengeance ecology meets vengeance feminism? Duh.
stefanieh's review
3.0
So much backstory made it hard to follow. Art is great though and I liked the story enough I plan on reading the next volume.
johannah's review
5.0
This is a wow of a comic book turned inside out to explore purpose of character and place. It's closest to early Sandman but wholly original. I hope more comics can pull in thinkers outside the industry to add depth and meaning to these stories of adventure.
sarah_who_reads's review
3.0
I don't really know how to rate this - I think it probably deserves more than three stars, based on what I've heard - because it's the first comic book I've read, at least as far as I remember. I've read plenty of graphic novels and memoirs, but nothing superhero-y, and so I just have nothing to compare it to. I was excited with the set-up of the story, but I'm not a huge fan of series, so it seems tedious to me to have to read a lot more to find the whole arc of the story (I realize this is a preference and has nothing to do with the quality of the comic), so I'm unlikely to see where it goes. I liked a lot of parts of it - set in a fictionalized sub-Saharan Africa; lots of women as key badasses; the wisdom of elders; and a potentially-complex set of values and choices ahead. I do hate how people talk in comics (or how I assume they do, from watching superhero movies based on comics), always proclaiming everything, and this one was no different, but again, I know that's a genre thing and I can't fault this book or even the genre for it, necessarily. I did find the storyline here hard to follow, but I think I have that problem with all graphic-form books - I've discovered that having to look at the pictures interrupts my reading flow, and I don't love it. So mostly this review is more a review of my experiences as a reader and not of Black Panther...I may have to read more comics to be able to do a better review...Hmmm....