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A review by magaramach
Black Panther Book 6: The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda Part 1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates
5.0
Ta-Nehisi Coates continues to be amazing. The beauty of his writing: memories and cultures and names lost as a metaphor for slavery stealing these things from African-Americans, how T’Challa has become a legend, his adventures immortalized,
the sick irony in Wakanda, the unconquered country meant as a utopia for Black people, becoming the villains, the spacers and genociders themselves. I’m getting chills just thinking about it.
I had problems earlier with how T’Challa was written: in the first issues, trying to hold onto a country that didn’t want him, he seemed more like the villain than the hero we recognize. But here: this is T’Challa at his finest. Nakia and M’Baku and new characters like Taku and Dauod are good, but no one stands out like he does.
Except for maybe N’Jadaka: the issue where he talks to the panther goddess Bast was my favourite. A fantastic comic.
the sick irony in Wakanda, the unconquered country meant as a utopia for Black people, becoming the villains, the spacers and genociders themselves. I’m getting chills just thinking about it.
I had problems earlier with how T’Challa was written: in the first issues, trying to hold onto a country that didn’t want him, he seemed more like the villain than the hero we recognize. But here: this is T’Challa at his finest. Nakia and M’Baku and new characters like Taku and Dauod are good, but no one stands out like he does.
Except for maybe N’Jadaka: the issue where he talks to the panther goddess Bast was my favourite. A fantastic comic.