THE FINAL ARC OF THE "INTERGALACTIC EMPIRE" BEGINS HERE!
The groundbreaking story of a king who became a slave - a slave who became a legend - reaches a tipping point as N'Jadaka's invasion of Earth continues! Wakanda goes to war against its own future...and its only hope lies in the king who brought them to this point.
Rated T+
Black Panther is a competently created comic book and delivers familiar beats, but it still struggles to rise above an overwhelmingly large herd of similar material at the end of 2019. Read Full Review
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An action-packed issue featuring the return of a fan favorite.
" Surely we have suffered, brother. Surely we have our lossed. Surely our days have been dark. "
- SHUIRI
I dearly love this art. And I love Shuri taking an important stand. I love the way this issue lays bare one of the title's core themes: That the roles of a good king and a good hero do not fit well together.
But. The non-chronological structure of the past three issues is a trainwreck. While starting a new arc, this issue lamely, lately delivers the missing beats that could have given #17 a sense of closure. And this tangled structure retroactively robs #18 -- clearly an inter-arc breather issue -- of any sensible place in the story. Mr. Coates had two ideas for seguing between arcs and tried to use them both. They've tripped each other.
New arc? Uh huh, I’ll believe it when I see it.
This is less the start of a new arc than just yet another issue of Black Panther. I don't think I'd notice if not for the blurb on the cover. It's fine, and slightly boring. But this is the last one until we finally wrap this up. I can't wait for something new here.
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