Black Panther Appreciation 2019

[DigiCom]

As far as I know, all the MK series were in continuity, even "Angel Punisher". It's just that they were sort of off in their own little corner of the Marvel U.

[Mike_Murdock]

Priest said at one time it should be in continuity, but Marvel pretty muched ignored what he was doing.

But some of it is because Hudlin has the MK banner on some of his work.

Just to be clear, I'm talking about the Marvel Knights series (Marvel Knights #1-15). The Marvel Knights imprint had all in-continuity books - Bendis's Daredevil, Priest's Black Panther, Lee/Jenkins' Inhumans, etc. Black Panther certainly tied in with Deadpool. The only issue it had was the retcon after the fact, but it was certainly intended to be in-continuity at the time.

[Killerbee911]

I do think at times T'Challas gear is so uber, it takes a little bit away from the man.

In Deadpool vs BP for example, there's a part where DP flat out states he can't take BP. Yet once he gets a vibranium suit, he's comfortable fightin T'Challa because he feels it's an even playing field. On one hand it gives props to the suit, which is nice... but in a way it almost gives the suit TOO much credit because he's basically saying the reason he felt he couldn't beat BP before was because of the suit rather than BP's innate abilities. I don't think that was the intent at all since the book is CLEARLY trying to give BP his props... but it sort of felt that way.

Thankfully we're also getting MK, where BP without the suit is kicking all sorts of butt. So it all balances out.

But yeah... the idea of him doing a story where he's completely left to his own devices in kinda cool. And that's SORT OF what we're getting in Coates current arc I suppose. He's stripped if any innate advantages he might normally have and relies more on his abilities than anything else. Obviously there's space tech all over the place, but it's a level playing field since everyone has it. Not quite the same thing, but the story does put emphasis on the man rather than the gear. Which is nice.

I like what the suit brings it make him able to operate on every level for superheroes. If you need him to take on street level villains,You can take away the suit and do stories that way. With the suit on he can face just about everyone except the big cosmic level stuff. Then combination of his intelligence/tactics, suit and fighting ability maybe with some tweaks to suit he can realistic take on the cosmic stuff. People hate that he doesn't get to be the elite specialist because of suit but he is probably the most realistically flexible hero in comics because of the suit. He can fight Superman, He can fight Spiderman or Deadpool and he could fight large group of henchmen and they would be interesting fights.

[XPac]

I like what the suit brings it make him able to operate on every level for superheroes. If you need him to take on street level villains,You can take away the suit and do stories that way. With the suit on he can face just about everyone except the big cosmic level stuff. Then combination of his intelligence/tactics, suit and fighting ability maybe with some tweaks to suit he can realistic take on the cosmic stuff. People hate that he doesn't get to be the elite specialist because of suit but he is probably the most realistically flexible hero in comics because of the suit. He can fight Superman, He can fight Spiderman or Deadpool and he could fight large group of henchmen and they would be interesting fights.

Yeah, he scales pretty easily, which is nice. He can do street level stuff to cosmic level stuff, and everything in between. And that's a huge net gain in that he can pretty much be used in almost any sort of story. Can't say that for say a Sentry or a Thor. The more uber his suit and gear are, the harder it is to justify the lower end stuff but yeah... simply not having him use it solves that easily enough.

[MindofShadow]

I wasn't a huge fan of Marvel Knights this week. It's hard to really say what the point of the story was and the continuity stuff is going to bother me.

Nostalgia lol

[MindofShadow]

you know there's two, right? the hi res download should print on 11 x 17 just fine

TBH, I saw it quickly and didn't realize YOU made it lol. I thought marvel did

[Ezyo1000]

TBH, I saw it quickly and didn't realize YOU made it lol. I thought marvel did

Wait what?? I thought marvel nade it too.. damn Redjack pulling out all sorts of cool stuff.

[Rumble]

Technically, I rate BP lower because the dude has better things to do than train all the time. The highest ranking H2H fighters should be the sort who (to paraphrase an old standup comic routine):

"…think that fighting is cool. They hang out with other fighters, talking about fighting. They go home at night and watch 'Enter The Dragon' and fondle themselves."

Fair enough!

I think so! And yeah BP be looking pretty good with that 1.3 Billy backing him. No one can talk isht with thst much bank raining. I am loving the change that quickly swept through once the movie dropped. Just need Redjack tonfrt another season of BP, him to become point man for BP too abd we golden. The only way this could get better would be for Tchalla to a Major role in this event like he did in tro

All I can say for sure is, he cured Galactus (Ultimates), cured death itself (BPvsDP), and made an anti-Thanos/Thanos-nullifier gun from LEGO pieces (Ultimates). And best strategist (facts).

That puts him in the top 3, in no order. Lunella, BP, Reed

[Rumble]

Nostalgia lol

The whole point of Marvel Knights was to see BP whoop Daredevil, Elektra, and Punisher's candy asses!

I mean, duh!

[MindofShadow]

The whole point of Marvel Knights was to see BP whoop Daredevil, Elektra, and Punisher's candy asses!

I mean, duh!

I put the original fight on the blog becuas I thought the fight was over.

I didn't expect BP to get right back up after getting smashed by Hulk and continue to put hands on Castle nad Elektra lol

Back to the editing room!

[Ezyo1000]

Fair enough!



All I can say for sure is, he cured Galactus (Ultimates), cured death itself (BPvsDP), and made an anti-Thanos/Thanos-nullifier gun from LEGO pieces (Ultimates). And best strategist (facts).

That puts him in the top 3, in no order. Lunella, BP, Reed

Made the tiger god into his personal Pokemon (ultimates. still waiting for him to whip that out) has Odin ad an advisor and was told by Odin that he was the key to uplifting humanity, had turned the big 3 I the big 4(Avengers)

Put hands on Thor (Panther quest) put hands on Dp.

Had his own personal agents to donhis bidding led by Okoye, and turned the OG celestial into his own personal teleporter..

T'Challa be ballin left and right. Who would of thought we would be getting this much BP hype a few years back??

[Redjack]

TBH, I saw it quickly and didn't realize YOU made it lol. I thought marvel did

nope. just me. that's why they're not for sale. also i did some minor design tweaks. my sig's in the bottom corner.

[Rumble]

@MindofShadow

First 616 Shuri, then AD, now Porzingis!

Would we trade a disgruntled 616 Shuri for Riri straight up? Or would they need to throw in a 1st round draft pick?

Or are we the ones who'd have to throw a draft pick for them to bite? (Lemme pull up Riri's stat sheet). I await skyvolt's insider player analysis breakdown

[Blind Wedjat]

So, silly me, I hadn't been watching Black Panther's Quest but I've been catching up and I had no idea T'Challa had been doing the ancestral memory thing I have been talking about? You've been delivering the goods Redjack.

Got to say I really liked the T'Chanda episode. While I do wish you had kept Azzuri as the name of T'Chaka's father and T'Challa grandfather (T'Chanda is just a bit derivative), I absolutely loved the character, especially his look and voice. Was great to see a BP kicking ass in the time

Also...

"Wakanda is the shield of the world."

I love that quote. Especially with the context it was used.

[Redjack]

So, silly me, I hadn't been watching Black Panther's Quest but I've been catching up and I had no idea T'Challa had been doing the ancestral memory thing I have been talking about? You've been delivering the goods Redjack.

Got to say I really liked the T'Chanda episode. While I do wish you had kept Azzuri as the name of T'Chaka's father and T'Challa grandfather (T'Chanda is just a bit derivative), I absolutely loved the character, especially his look and voice. Was great to see a BP kicking ass in the time

Also...

"Wakanda is the shield of the world."

I love that quote. Especially with the context it was used.

i'm glad you liked it and i'm glad you caught that. it's important.