Racial tension? Are Africans and AA different races now? I'm African so i don't want to assume how AA choose to identify themselves.
Yeah, probably, although in Iceland (perhaps the best modern equivalent) it varies. According to Wikipedia, some families alternate the matronymic and the patronymic, regardless of the child's gender.
Interestingly, they recently introduced a new construct that translates as "child of", for non-binary citizens. I could easily see Wakanda doing the same, especially since there's no guarantee that all of their citizens are biologically human (or, indeed, biological)
All this **** sounds boring AF.
You know what happens when you write a BP issue about the F'ing soccer team? It sells 5K and goes in the trash.
This is super hero comics. No one cares about Wakanda food.
Wakanda is just the setting to allow BP to do stuff. Wakanda isn't the star. T'challa is. Books ain't called "Wakanda #1"
Too many fans worry too much about Wakanda. Wakanda exists to prop up T'challa, not vice versa (well, it exists now to drag T'challa down tbf).
The franchise can barely get T'challa off the ground, can't get any supporting character off the ground, and yall wanna worry about Wakanda?
Wakanda = Asgard = Latveria = Atlantis = Gotham = Metropolis = Kun Lun = NYC = it is just a GD place not some holy comic grail
And there is no racial tension. A lot of Wakanda doesn't like anyone that isn't Wakanda, period. They are xenophobic at lot of times. Not racist.
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During the course of Hudlins run, his suit has taken a few hits and even shown some damage. It's entirely possible that with the exception of the Killmonger fight he was using a cloth suit. Likewise the energy daggers and kimoyo cards all but vanished... I believe he used the daggers like once.
It's pretty fair to say Hudlin for the most part ignored Priests gear. His version largely went back to basics and punched out his bad guys (and there's nothing wrong with that). He's not a very good example of a writer not ignoring previously established tech and gear.
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I would like the new black Panther writer to soft reboot and write the comic book like its a comic book. Anything that resembles or builds off Coates' take would just be off-putting
Show me which issues shows the damage, because frankly, the only fight now that I think about it that he shows damage is klaw and doom in vol 5. With Erik the habit never shows any damage, the thrice blessed does but not the habit. Also he uses the daggers twice and he uses kimoyo as well as the habit. I would hardly say he ignored the stuff. He just didn't use a lot of tech to begin with.
Um. The Asgardian surname, like the Nordic, is simply a contraction of "son of." It's no more backward, nor less efficient than your example is effective in refuting the previous points. Moreover, as Blind Wedjat points out, A Main Point of Wakanda being different than Eurocentric tradition is that Wakanda developed independently of Eurocentric influences. They're supposed to be different just as The Inhumans are supposed to be different.
T'Challa has always been defined by his relationship to his nation. Wakanda is not just setting, it its own character.
Wakanda is just as much of a character in BP as the USS Enterprise was in Star Trek. And I know some grown men who've cried watching the Enterprise blow up in Star Trek III and you probably do too.
The franchise can barley get a supporting character off of the ground because most of the supporting characters in BP are just staff members of the Royal Palace who they live to serve their king. The only time when they open their mouths is through board meetings and mission briefings where everyone either speaks in either military jargon or philosophy. Which leads to Okoye sounding exactly like Nakia who also sounds exactly like Shuri.
We need more to Black Panther than C-SPAN. We need a writer who can bring a sense of atmosphere to Wakanda. It needs to feel like a community, a living, breathing place where the reader would actually feel invested in. So when Wakanda is on the brink of danger, the reader would feel the sense of urgency when it comes time for BP to defend it.
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While I do think that some people look at T'Challa and Wakanda as one and the same I don't think the idea is to turn his comic into some slice of life nonsense. You can explore the more "mundane" aspects of Wakandan society while still keeping it relevant to the plot and his character development.
Why does T'Challa always need to talk politics in his war room, let him preside over a wrestling tournament in a Mute Zone while W'Kabi mumbles to him about Jabari bandits in the north. Or make him take some students at the Hekima Shule to coffee and use it as exposition for Shadow Physics. Have him take a woman not named Storm out for the night and go to some afro-jazz club he recently financed in Birnin Zana.
There are ways to organically expand on Wakanda with art and one-liners without detracting from T'Challa. But that should be secondary (tertiary in fact) to elevating T'Challa first and his villains second. The Black Panther isn't some sandbox like the X-Men, he's a SOLO character.
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Hudlin's costume for the MOST part just seemed like cloth. If the idea Hudlin was trying to potray was that it was vibranium weave, I don't think the art or the writing did a very good job of conveying that EXCEPT in the Killmonger fight. We probably saw more usage of Priests gear in Yosts Worlds Apart mini and in Geoffs Avengers than we did in Hudlins near half decade run.
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Again, I'm not inherently against Hudlins decision to downplay the tech and vibranium suit. I just don't agree he is a good example of a writer who incorporates previously established tech and gear.