ENTER NAMOR!
Battered and beaten after his grueling battle with Captain America, T'Challa has everything to prove and nothing left to lose. So when Namor arrives on the scene, Black Panther is determined to make him pay for the pain he's inflicted on Wakanda in the past. But the terrorists of his making still loom large, and Namor never goes anywhere without a plan - and an angle?
Rated T+
‘Black Panther' #14 delivers by facing the title character with a status quo-shattering development that has been building for most of the previous thirteen issues. An emotional action-packed issue that delivers on multiple levels, standing as a perfect penultimate issue for this short-lived but powerful series. Read Full Review
John Ridley has put his stamp on the former King of Wakanda by tearing him down issue after issue. Read Full Review
Black Panther #14 delivers the goods in a penultimate issue leading into John Ridley's final issue next month. The action, pacing, dialog, and dramatic elements hit their mark, and the art is very good. If readers have been put off by the tearing down of T'Challa in this series, this issue takes his failure one step further, but the ride to get there is reasonably entertaining. Read Full Review
Peralta delivers some impressive battle scenes and I like the visual look of this issue a lot more than the story. Read Full Review
This story has not been the most interesting to me, unfortunately. However, this issue wasn't bad. T'Challa was the main reason this book had my interest, as the other characters didn't really do much for me (aside from Namor, but his most enjoyable moment for me was him laughing his ass off when T'Challa was being told he's no longer a citizen). Overall, I hope Ridley puts out something just a bit better for the next issue, as it will be the last one until the new run.
There is nothing mortally wrong with the way it's written, and quite a bit right with the way it's drawn. But it's just relentlessly average--it would have to be far better to recapture my enthusiasm after the misadventures of previous issues.
It looks like Ridley didn't even read Black Panther comics before writing this garbage. Horrendous book.