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[QUOTE=Cville;3814334]If I remember correctly, They pick their best fighters and engage in a battle royal. However they're are not allowed to kill each other I believe. Whoever wins, wins whatever the dispute was about and the losers leave the island. It is supposed to be a way to prevent collateral damage from crop burning, and village raiding.
I cant do the scans, but he only makes a brief appearance in a Priest issue. Its like 24 or 25. Somewhere around there.[/QUOTE]
that doesnt sound too bad but if you a king and lose it could result in everything being lost right? that sounds risky from the perspective of tchalla.
oh cool I will try check those out thnk u
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[QUOTE=butterflykyss;3814387]that doesnt sound too bad but if you a king and lose it could result in everything being lost right? that sounds risky from the perspective of tchalla.
oh cool I will try check those out thnk u[/QUOTE]
He is supposed to fight challengers once a year anyway. For Tchalla is status quo. lol
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[QUOTE=Cville;3814430]He is supposed to fight challengers once a year anyway. For Tchalla is status quo. lol[/QUOTE]
oh when was the last time he formally fought a challenger that wasnt trying to just invade wakanda?
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[QUOTE=butterflykyss;3814438]oh when was the last time he formally fought a challenger that wasnt trying to just invade wakanda?[/QUOTE]
Never. lol. It is one of those things that is talked about in the background but never shown for Tchalla.
Tchaka did it in Evans first issue.
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[QUOTE=Cville;3814442]Never. lol. It is one of those things that is talked about in the background but never shown for Tchalla.
Tchaka did it in Evans first issue.[/QUOTE]
lmfao lololol I'm screaming.
and I remember it from the rotp thanks love.
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[QUOTE=butterflykyss;3814438]oh when was the last time he formally fought a challenger that wasnt trying to just invade wakanda?[/QUOTE]
There’s Kilmomger. That wasn't the annual challenge thing, but it was sort of the same thing.
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Jungle Action Vol. 2 #24 - [i]Wind Eagle in Flight[/i]
[img]https://www.use.com/images/s_2/3d6c9050906f2d6eb452_5.jpg[/img]
Jungle Action #23 is a reprint of a Daredevil issue that I'm sure I'll cover at some point. Don McGregor's story is his last. After this issue, he was fired because he was "too close to the black experience." Delays leading to reprints are certainly something that Marvel frowned upon, so that might have been a factor (but I can't say for certain what was going on). Either way, this was the last issue McGregor wrote of this story. The story also doesn't have the regular art team with Keith Pollard doing most of it and Rich Buckler doing layouts for half of it.
The issue opens with T'Challa tied to a water wheel. I'm used to dramatic openings, but even I thought I missed an issue. The way it works is, with each turn, he risks drowing but will certainly die of hypothermia either way. We cut back to earlier that day where T'Challa is questioning Angela's boyfriend. He followed Angela and witnessed that she was killed, but didn't see who.
Afterward, T'Challa decides to confront Angela's boss and hear his side of the story. He says he'll talk later. While T'Challa is waiting, he is attacked by a flying man called Wind Eagle. Wind Eagle seems sympathetic, but braindwashed by the reverend. While they fight, T'Challa's distracted and hit by a car, which allows him to be tied up to the water wheel. This brings us back where we started. That being said, it's quickly resolved as T'Challa, through force of will, shatters the wheel. Overall, it's fairly anticlimactic.
I like the idea of mystery meets superheroics. It feels that Wind Eagle is the main superpowered villain and that he might even have potential to turn to the good side. But I don't think this issue was all that strong. It is, however, the final McGregor issue. I'll skip forward in time tomorrow for the Marvel Premiere issues. I recall not liking how they finish this story. That being said, based on interviews, I don't get the impression McGregor knew how this story would end either.
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babies have you seen this I love it tbt:
[url]https://www.instagram.com/p/BlsgZb5hJy1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link[/url]
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Too bad the X-Office screwed it up by being petty.
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[QUOTE=butterflykyss;3814674]babies have you seen this I love it tbt:
[url]https://www.instagram.com/p/BlsgZb5hJy1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link[/url][/QUOTE]
Saw something like it on FB. One of those on this day however many years ago.
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[QUOTE=MindofShadow;3814116][img]https://i.imgur.com/Dy1UVz0.jpg[/img]
[img]https://media.giphy.com/media/3o85xGocUH8RYoDKKs/giphy.gif[/img]
Malice dropping truth bombs lol.[/QUOTE]
[B]It's her true superpower for sure[/B]
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[QUOTE=skyvolt2000;3814706]Too bad the X-Office screwed it up by being petty.[/QUOTE]
they did but hopefully they get it right this time.
[QUOTE=Cville;3814713]Saw something like it on FB. One of those on this day however many years ago.[/QUOTE]
awww that's nice. I thought this one was really cute.
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does malice with the herb have super strength or durability, or is she just baseline human
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[QUOTE=Mike_Murdock;3812595]Jungle Action Vol. 2 #22 - [i]Death Riders on the Horizon[/i]
[img]https://www.use.com/images/s_2/3d6c9050906f2d6eb452_4.jpg[/img]
This is a strange, but ambitious issue. Essentially, T'Challa, Monica, and Kevin Trublood are hanging out with Mr. and Mrs. Lynn on their porch while Mrs. Lynn tells a story. The story is of their ancestor, Caleb, who was freed after the Civil War but still stuck in poverty as a sharecropper. The left side of the page is Mrs. Lynn telling the story as it was. The right side of the page has the story as Monica imagines it with everyone in a much less sad state and T'Challa involved as well.
Essentially, Caleb is threatened by the Klan. He goes to the Freedmen's Bureau, but the Republican politicians who work there only make empty promises. In Monica's vision, T'Challa jumps in and beats them up too and he and Caleb agree to make their stand against the Klan.
In the real story, Caleb and his family hurry home, trying to get their before dark. They never make it. They were confronted by one Klansman in particular, who called himself the Soul Strangler and pretended to be a Confederate soldier who died at the Battle of Shiloh. He shoots Caleb in the shoulder, ties a rope around his neck, and hangs him while his his wife and kids are forced to watch. It's a powerful image - one that McGregor doesn't sugarcoat at all. And it's one that, frankly, Monica's fantasy, where T'Challa saves the day and rescues Caleb, feels hollow.
[B]Still, I feel the story has a message about the role of fantasy. Monica isn't completely escaping from the reality of the world she lives in, but she still finds value in the fake version she imagines where people can be heroic and justice can actually happen. In many ways, it's calling attention to itself that this is a comic and it's possible to have heroism and, just maybe, a happy ending that might not be possible in real life.[/B][/QUOTE]
I agree with this interpetation. But I'd say that Monica's fantasy where BP saved the day, makes the "real" story more sad and powerful. It brings home the fact that in history there's not always a happy ending.
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Whoever is drawing RiRi Williams should draw Ugly Nakia... :cool:
Primary Colors Fool What!