RETURN OF THE QUEEN!
• Shuri is reborn anew... New powers, a new codename and a new target: the Midnight Angels.
• The newly independent Dora Milaje make their final accord with Tetu and The People...
• T'Challa takes an audience with the voice of dissent, Changamire. But will both men finally listen to reason?
Rated T
It is these subtle details, along with the explorative character work that has made Black Panther an entertaining read. At times, the protagonist's struggle has been frustrating, how does this mastermind fail to outmaneuver these upstarts? The brilliance of Black Panther #10 is showing that the conflict has never quite been between T'Challa and antagonists Tetu and Zenzi, but rather between T'Challa, the monarch that could swiftly bring the country under his heel, and T'Challa, the man who would lift his people up onto his shoulders. Read Full Review
For a book with a lot of exposition, Coates swung for the fences getting us ready for the grand finale. Excellent penultimate issue. Read Full Review
In a lot of ways, Black Panther #10 presents both the best sides of Coates run on the series and his occasional drawbacks. On the plus, the themes and concepts are really fascinating. The shifting sides and power dynamics are also well handled. At the same time, this is the second straight issue that has been mostly talking, which I think can get stagnate. Black Panther #10 is a good issue, but I think it could have more moved quicker and had some alterations in pace that made it a bit more exciting. At any rate, Coates has set up a conflict for the next issue that should be quite entertaining and surprising. Read Full Review
I read this after a couple of issues of different titles I criticized for being all talk. This issue of "Black Panther" consists mainly of dialogue, but it is powerful and interesting and successfully sets the stage for the conclusion of an arc that has been bubbling for 10 issues. This is really well done.
Shuri and T'Challa tweak the board before their big showdown with Tetu's rebels. It takes a lot of talking. Shuri convinces Ayo and Aneka to break from the rebels and T'Challa (probably?) enlists Changamire on the side of the crown. A weirdly strident ad for Edmund Morgan's "American Slavery, American Freedom" is included, too. Strong art for a quiet book, and many carefully-chosen words. "Slow burn" is the go-to descriptor for this title, but perhaps it's time to look at the negative connotations of that phrase. Lordy, it's slow. The words are beautiful but the action takes so long to arrive.
The art and the ugly of war; could have been a nine but as usual very little action for a comic book.
A foreign army is marching towards the capital, but T'Challa and Shuri are keeping their heads, cooly playing political chess to keep their country from descending into inevitable civil war. In a format like a comic, I would have at least liked to see one cut away to Tetu's army advancing, show don't tell. This comic continues to be dialogue heavy, but in that dialogue is also this title's strength, it gives voice to debate and philosophy that you won't find in any other comic.
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