[QUOTE=Cville;3806079]Gave him an energy dagger. Lol[/QUOTE]
Probably trying to differentiate his play style from Wolverine's since they're both in the game.
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[QUOTE=Cville;3806079]Gave him an energy dagger. Lol[/QUOTE]
Probably trying to differentiate his play style from Wolverine's since they're both in the game.
So Disney expanded from 28 theatres to 154 for BP this weekend. Now it is 68K from 700 million!! Man I wish they had done this before the blu ray release.
This is gonna be too close.
[QUOTE=MindofShadow;3806509]FINALLY!!!
lol[/QUOTE]
[B]I could see something like Daggers, claws and force push as the big finisher[/B]
Well met Christopher Priest today.
Got a picture too.
While waiting for him to sign some things he offered these gems-
Batman The Mission was suppose to be 80 pages not the one shot that finally came out.
Black Panther might have inspired the Civil War mini series as his book did feature Panther and Iron Man not getting along and agreeing.
The fight scene between Killmonger & Panther was inspired from the fight they had in his book.
He didn't want to kill Ironfist in the last issue of Powerman & Ironfist (which sold 153K at the time it was axed for something called the New Universe)
A ghost writer did the last 3 issues of Steel and his run was actually about McDuffie as a super hero.
[QUOTE=Mr MajestiK;3806610]Nah bruv, that's not how it works.
You know full well that Reginald Hudlin's original 6 issue mini-series was an out of continuity take on the BP mythos and this, completely divorced from what Christopher Priest as clearly illustrated by the completely bald headed and tribal marked Dora Milaje depicted during his run.
Marvel's decision for Hudlin to fold his run into the mainstream MCU didn't alter the new dynamic as regards the portrayal and repurposing of the Dora's in anyway but for some reason, a minority of readers choose to highlight something that's been a non-issue for close to a decade now whilst low key downplaying positive developments for the BP Mythos that were clearly evident at the close of Hickman's Secret Wars II and Al Ewing's Ultimate book which was in perfect synch with where Hickman left Wakanda as regards restoration of Wakanda to pre-Incursion status, Wakanda's expanding role on the International stage as part of the Ultimates Initiative and the Wakanda Space Program.
There was ZERO evidence of conflict in Wakanda evidenced in Al Ewing's book and whatever issues T'challa had with the Dora's as regards Namor, were definitely not alluded to in the Ultimates book.
One can choose to cherry pick whatever one wants to back up whatever argument one chooses to make but it's usually a good idea to bear in mind the fact that there will always be other readers who choose to rely on what's actually in continuity as opposed to Johnny come lately writers flights of fanfiction based fantasy.
One also has to question why one's position always has to contradictory whenever concepts that strengthen the character and his mythos are introduced only to be quite enthusiastic and generally enthused when very subjective portrayals of "hyper realism" are rigidly applied to what remains a purely fictional/fantasy based milieu.
Word to B-Swizzle.[/QUOTE]
[COLOR="#000080"]People have a problem with the Dora concept under Priest even though it was all ceremonial and neither T'Challa nor any other Black Panther ever slept with one.
But treehouse rape camps and getting advice from brutal dictators is the acceptable norm to some. Some even try to justify their existence.
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[QUOTE=skyvolt2000;3806690]Well met Christopher Priest today.
Got a picture too.
While waiting for him to sign some things he offered these gems-
Batman The Mission was suppose to be 80 pages not the one shot that finally came out.
Black Panther might have inspired the Civil War mini series as his book did feature Panther and Iron Man not getting along and agreeing.
The fight scene between Killmonger & Panther was inspired from the fight they had in his book.
He didn't want to kill Ironfist in the last issue of Powerman & Ironfist (which sold 153K at the time it was axed for something called the New Universe)
A ghost writer did the last 3 issues of Steel and his run was actually about McDuffie as a super hero.[/QUOTE]
[COLOR="#000080"]Nice. He say anything about Deathstroke and Red Lion?[/COLOR]
Speaking of CGI...
I was going over the game film and saw some interesting things about the T'challa vs Killmonger fight scene...
[video=youtube;IpCQEmmAyTY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpCQEmmAyTY[/video]
OOPS my bad... Posted the wrong video (or did I?) :cool:
Black Panther needs a knock down drag em out fight like this to up the intensity stakes!
I'm talking one whole comic book filled to the brim like that Hulk versus Wolverine cartoon but with less talking and thought balloons!
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m4QQL1wXmE[/url]
[QUOTE=MindofShadow;3805487]You also have to remember that the only person who said the herb was poisonous outside the royal line was Killmonger... and unreliable narrator who has had various enhancements done to him via outside means no one knows about.
Kinda like what Samuels said to Blonsky in Incredible Hulk, "I don't know how much you got inside you already"
T'challa, in the same run, didn't say it was poisonous. And let Kasper try to get access to it... in the same run.
It is murky, but throughout the history of the HSH, circumstantial evidence around whether the herb is truly poisonous outside the royal line leans towards it being not poisonous.
It is all speculation. Last time the herb was given to a non royal line, spider-man, he was good. Which would make the mos trecent canon say its not. It is also speculation that Parker would have an immunity to an herb only found in one place in the world. T'challa didn't seem too worried about it.[/QUOTE]
T;Chala let Kasper get the synthetic .herb concoction made by Killmonger. "let" as in he did try to stop him.
[QUOTE=Marvell2100;3806701][COLOR="#000080"]People have a problem with the Dora concept under Priest even though it was all ceremonial and neither T'Challa nor any other Black Panther ever slept with one.
But treehouse rape camps and getting advice from brutal dictators is the acceptable norm to some. Some even try to justify their existence.
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Agreed 100% my dear friend.
[QUOTE=Marvell2100;3806701][COLOR="#000080"]People have a problem with the Dora concept under Priest even though it was all ceremonial and neither T'Challa nor any other Black Panther ever slept with one.
But treehouse rape camps and getting advice from brutal dictators is the acceptable norm to some. Some even try to justify their existence.
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Treehouse rape is considered acceptable in the story, because the story clearly conveyed that it was wrong. Hence the rapist getting murdered on panel for their actions. Point being it's okay to show bad stuff happening in fiction, provided the story makes it clear that it's bad stuff that actually needs to be stopped.
[QUOTE=Marvell2100;3806701][COLOR="#000080"]People have a problem with the Dora concept under Priest even though it was all ceremonial and neither T'Challa nor any other Black Panther ever slept with one.
But treehouse rape camps and getting advice from brutal dictators is the acceptable norm to some. Some even try to justify their existence.
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Worth mentioning that, in character, a few people had a problem with Dora under Priest. That's why only two were serving at any given time. Turning them into an army was a mistake, IMO.
[QUOTE=The Cool Thatguy;3806825]Worth mentioning that, in character, a few people had a problem with Dora under Priest. That's why only two were serving at any given time. Turning them into an army was a mistake, IMO.[/QUOTE]
I could buy more than 2... I per village or whatever. But yeah, a giant army of them was a little weird to me.
My thoughts on the Dora
[QUOTE]Well, age 16 or 11. Same difference, right?
*cough*
[url]http://www.cracked.com/article_24776...n-america.html[/url]
Honestly, I think the problem isn't that the Dora are 'brides', it's that they're brides and there's a damn army of them.
People keep referencing Priest's run, yet forget that there were only were two Dora serving at one time. Okoye, Nakia/Malice and then Queeny.
They were brides in training, a concession to conservative members of his government, and they represented the honor of their respective tribes. The story made it clear that this was a tradition T'Challa revived (meaning Wakanda had long since left it behind) and that it wasn't something he intended to abuse.
From a story perspective, it worked because internal logic demanded T'Challa have body guards (as a head of state does), but an army of them would be impossible to write.
It worked from a story perspective because it allowed the Dora greater characterization. Okoye, the good daughter, Queen is Queen, and delusional Malice. They were not red shirts, they were characters.
Since the Dora was expanded, I don't think we've seen the original Dora since (until recently). Making them an army robs them of characterization and ability, as red shirt armies exist only to get beat.
And honestly, I don't think the Brides in Training/Representative of Tribal honor should be dropped. Honor is a big thing to countless cultures the world over, Africa included, for better or worse (say, honor killings). Not every aspect of Wakandian culture need be perfect.
Hell, Priest developed Wakanda more in one series than any writer has developed Atlantis, simply by introducing basic cultural tension.
What needs to be dropped is making them a damn army. It's hard to say that it's an old cultural practice when there are a million of them. It's hard to believe that T'Challa cares about them personally, when a new one is introduced every ten minutes.
Priest introduced them as scalpels. Precise and careful examinations of Wakanda cultural practices. With a limit to the number of characters, he could carefully examine the implications.
Later writers made them chainsaws, a poor decision that splattered over every character, and nothing is heard but noise.[/QUOTE]
Add to the above, T'Challa looks more bad as by only needing two bodyguards who execute his will, not a damn army
[QUOTE=Marvell2100;3806701][COLOR="#000080"]People have a problem with the Dora concept under Priest even though it was all ceremonial and neither T'Challa nor any other Black Panther ever slept with one.
But treehouse rape camps and getting advice from brutal dictators is the acceptable norm to some. Some even try to justify their existence.
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[B]The worst part of the whole thing is Coates first said in Interviews before the series that he couldn't see anybody not taking advantage of that situation, ignoring the nobility of Tchalla and the spiritual advancement of Wakanda.
But the whole dictator thing was literally there to throw shade. Even casuals went WTF when Tchalla was surprised that known dictators gave bad advice then talked about it to enemies of Wakanda, and the reason he met with them was just"to see what they would say" I mean... Dafuq? Tchalla ain't that stupid. And then when he reveals stane to the world, its ignored and Changa criticizes him in a later issue...
But all of this is okay and compelling story telling... [/B]
[QUOTE=The Cool Thatguy;3806836]My thoughts on the Dora
Add to the above, T'Challa looks more bad as by only needing two bodyguards who execute his will, not a damn army[/QUOTE]
I wonder if the idea that the system was recently revived has been rectoned, because having an army of them with various ages would imply that this system has been going on for quite some time. Not that it's IMPOSSIBLE that they very quickly assembled an army of them... but it feels sort of out of nowhere.
In any event, in the least under current writers they are no longer nameless faceless robots. They're characters now with actual names, who act as more than red shirts.