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[QUOTE=robreedwrites;3412429]I'm waiting for my anxiety nightmares to start up. I had them before Civil War. The slow news day is only making the wait worse.[/QUOTE]
Hopefully everything will turn out well. Fingers crossed.
But damn this is nerve racking.
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[QUOTE=Dboi654;3412448]Hopefully everything will turn out well. Fingers crossed.
But damn this is nerve racking.[/QUOTE]
Marvel has yet to deliver a stinker, so there's likely nothing to worry about.
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[QUOTE=XPac;3412463]Marvel has yet to deliver a stinker, so there's likely nothing to worry about.[/QUOTE]
I hope you are right.
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[QUOTE=Dboi654;3412414]I have never been this nervous about the social media embargo a movie before.
I almost feel like throwing up lol.[/QUOTE]
[B]I hear yeah. I feel the nerves setting in, but then I watch the trailers and the tv spots and it calms me down, they have been masterfully giving just enough to keep the hype levels high without giving away much at all of the movie or plot. So once the lift cones I expect hype levels through the roof[/B]
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[QUOTE=KingNomarch;3411143]New TV spot
[video=youtube_share;zkWiTLKE0mg]https://youtu.be/zkWiTLKE0mg[/video][/QUOTE]
Nice find. While I didn't like the new suit at first I find it growing on me more and more every time I see it. I like how slim it makes him look. It also looks even more lightweight than his CW costume.
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I just read the silent issue (169) and it was pretty solid. It would make for a great movie scene. I'm glad the issue dedicated to claw really fleshed out his intentions and motivations because now we know how mad he should be next issue because he could not resurrect his sister.
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[QUOTE=RDMXV;3412740]I just read the silent issue (169) and it was pretty solid. It would make for a great movie scene. I'm glad the issue dedicated to claw really fleshed out his intentions and motivations because now we know how mad he should be next issue because he could not resurrect his sister.[/QUOTE]
It's always nice when we can give villains a little bit of extra personal motivation beyond them just being jerks. The sister angle potentially gives Coates and other writers something new to play with.
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[B]the MA are so boring and 1 dimensional that I feel bad for Klaw Honestly, atleast he had legit motivation for his actions where as the Ma are just.. meh, waste of panel space [/B]
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I realized that a big part of this whole thing was to basically use these reviews as a countdown to the movie. So, on that note:
Eighteen Days until the Movie!
Marvel Comics Presents #20 - [i]Panther's Quest (Part 8) - Hatred Under Tears[/i]
[img]https://www.use.com/images/s_5/sorted/9da5d18c906cd613bb96_8.jpg[/img]
What better way to start the narrative than with an overly purple McGregor narration about Theodore Olebogeng, the little boy chasing after the ball placed in peril last issue? Apparently, Theodore is a big fan of dirt. Dirt and, uh, his mouth I guess. Seriously, I'll lovingly make fun of McGregor's purple prose, but this might be one of the most absurd things I've ever seen:
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Theodore Olebogeng had been exploring the dirt with all the concentration that might preoccupy a paleontologist. The dirt is his private horde: there is no telling what the possibilities of a handful of dirt might be. You can throw it in the air and watch it fly away from you or on a windy day, have it whip right back in your eyes, a delightful dity shower. Or build and shape it into mountains or houses or anything your mind can see. Dirt was great, it really was. Dirty hands did not bother Theodore Olebogeng. Like most six-year olds, he ritualistically explored his mouth with grimy fingers at least every five minutes. Mouths were normally good places to explore, also.
Time has no meaning in a dirt-universe or a mouth-universe for that matter, when one is absorbed exploring it. And yet, something has destroyed the universe of dirt. Distant screaming. Who si screaming? And why are they screaming? It was when he had that intrusive thought that Theodore Olebogeng saw the truck, became aware of the running people, and became so scared, his throat closed up as if siezed by an internal fist and he did not even think to tell his bony, scabby-kneed legs to run. The truck is like a large and terrifying monster, which makes him forgot how to breathe or swallow.
Theodore Olebogeng does not even see the midnight-blue figure that hurtles through the window with superb timing - twisting at the moment of contact so the shards of shattering glass hit mostly his back and not his face. Theodore Olebogeng is still unaware of the figure as the Panther's arm catches him about the waist and knocks the wind out of him. For seconds afterward, caught in his mind, is the size of the monster-truck and the face behind the windshield of a white soldier.
His mother has warned him about white soldiers. She is always warning him about soething or other. Mostly he hears what she is satying, but the words have little to do with the several universes that are important to him, including the dirt-universe. Well, his mother does recognize the dirt-universe but only when scolding him about getting so dirty while she is scrubbing him clean.
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If you can't tell from that, after rescuing the child, T'Challa leaps into action and starts kicking the nozzle where the tear gas is coming out, his wounds stinging as he does it. He then punches out the window and hits one of the soldiers inside. I do really like the ending with the look of the little boy who had his eyes burned by the tear gas with hatred forming in his heart for those soldiers. As much as this story doesn't want to trust the art to sell the story, the art is by Gene Colan and he does a great job here. Sold almost entirely by the art are the final three panels where we see a gun with the trigger being pulled and T'Challa possibly being shot!
Overall, it's a solid issue. I make fun of the prose because it's really absurd, but, for the quick story it is, I think it is pretty good. It continues to set up the dynamics of South Africa, even if T'Challa is not advancing in his story at all. In many ways, this story is basically all about resolving the cliffhanger from last issue before the next cliffhanger is set up.
Costume Tear Count: This is a second tear, which occurs when he punches out the window. Glad to see some realism that smashing glass is, in fact, dangerous.
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[QUOTE=Ezyo1000;3412977][B]the MA are so boring and 1 dimensional that I feel bad for Klaw Honestly, atleast he had legit motivation for his actions where as the Ma are just.. meh, waste of panel space [/B][/QUOTE]
[COLOR="#000080"]I honestly think that the current BP writer is using the BP solo to tell the stories that he didn't get the chance to do in the failed World of Wakanda title.[/COLOR]
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He didn't tell the stories in World of Wakanda - that was written by Roxane Gay. The only story he wrote was the backup for issue one. He just had his name attached to try and boost sales and because he helped get Ms. Gay the book.
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Red carpet show here at 6pmPT
[URL="http://marvel.com/blackpantherlive"]http://marvel.com/blackpantherlive[/URL]
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[QUOTE=KingNomarch;3412355]Priest and Hickman were at a Marvel writers summit
[URL="https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/01/29/christopher-priest-marvel-writers-summit/"]https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/01/29/christopher-priest-marvel-writers-summit/[/URL][/QUOTE]
Two of the greatest Panther writers...in my opinion ofcourse.
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[QUOTE=Ekie;3413212]Two of the greatest Panther writers...in my opinion ofcourse.[/QUOTE]
In the least you could objectively argue they were VERY important ones to the character. Priest took the character out of limbo and put him on the map, while Hickman placed the character at the center of the MU in the companys big event.
I'd love to see either do more with the character.
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New spot here:
[URL="https://twitter.com/theblackpanther/status/958154050402361344"]https://twitter.com/theblackpanther/status/958154050402361344[/URL]