I still want the Intergalactic Empire destroyed, I’m just waiting to see if Ewing can rehab the concept lol. If he can’t do it I’m hoping the next Marvel cosmic event wipes it out or the concept enters limbo until someone has a good revamp in mind.
Personally, I don’t want there to be this pressure for BP to always be operating on a cosmic level and it’s annoying that less than 5 issues in we’re once again getting T’Challa off Earth under Ridley. If the IGEW as a concept sucks and writers keep trying to incorporate it just because it’s there I foresee a lot of really bad BP space stories.
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I actually want the empire to stick around since in the hands of a good writer, it can make T’Challa a force to be reckoned with. Not to mention the storytelling potential of how it would affect Wakandas relationship with other nations (especially superpowers) when they find out that a small nation like Wakanda has an empire that has literally conquered planets across the Galaxy.
T'Challa
A.K.A. The Black Panther
King of Wakanda
King of the Dead and The Champion of Bast
Two-Time Time Magazine "Person Of The Year"
Six-Time People Magazine "Sexiest Man Alive"
I think it should get wiped out if Ewing can’t do it. I would’ve much preferred the concept was destroyed before he got his hands on it though so we could start completely fresh the next time a BP writer wanted to do space stuff.
Does it really make T’Challa stronger? The Empire is so far away that if Wakanda got invaded by Atlantis it would probably take days/weeks before the cavalry got there. No way Marvel’s adherence to the status quo will ever let the Empire be a deciding factor in a major storyline, that’s why it got ignored in Empyre and KIB and why Ewing isn’t even bothering to write the BP tie-in.
And even if writers did embrace Wakanda having these far flung planets, we have a hard enough time getting rogues that can stand up to T’Challa as just a king. Make him an intergalactic emperor and the only legit threat he can face is another alien empire or some cosmic being. He basically becomes what Thor is now but much weaker, and it’d be ridiculous to see Thor fighting petty assassins from Latveria when he’s got 9 realms to protect, let alone 5 galaxies lol.
A space empire fundamentally changes the scope of who BP is as a character in ways that don’t really seem necessary or viable. I’d much rather we stuck with the basic storyline of him starting colonization on a planet not too far away from Earth instead of sidestepping organic Wakandan space development and saddling the mythos with quintillions of new citizens, thousands of planets, and a legacy tarnished by slavery.
And my main issue is writers feeling like they have no choice but to include the IGEW, the same way they feel they need to do a Klaw story or need to have Storm in the book as the effective co-lead. Not every writer knows how to write space opera and if the concept itself is bad and writers aren’t committed to fixing it before using it, it just means crappy BP space stories.
Last edited by chief12d; 07-28-2021 at 06:42 PM.
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I really don't get the problem of being a wife of a king. Princess Diana was married to a prince and no one ever belittled her for it. She build her own life and everyone loved her for that;
It has been almost one decade that the marriage ended
The problem here never was T'challa, it was the x-men writers