THE EPIC FINALE OF JOHN RIDLEY'S GAME-CHANGING RUN! Finally, all things must come to a head! Jhai, T'Challa's best friend and the sleeper agent whose assassination served as the catalyst for all of T'Challa's recent troubles?is alive. Not only is he alive, but he seeks to seize control of the entire world, all in the name of Wakanda! Still injured, Black Panther rushes forward to take down the man who was once his closest comrade. But T'Challa knows he must still pay his pound of flesh for his role in bringing so much strife to fruition?
Rated T+
The John Ridley run of Black Panther comes to an end on a solemn note. Read Full Review
The latest volume of ‘Black Panther' comes to a satisfying and game-changing conclusion with ‘Black Panther' #15, wrapping up much of what has been built over the past fifteen months while also seeding plenty to be picked up upon for years to come by others. While T'Challa's future is murky and a question mark, the future for Wakanda within the universe is quite bright creating some great forward movement in a medium often dominated by old status quos. Read Full Review
Peralta does a great job with the art in the issue, but all of the build up to the final confrontation with Jhai was wasted with the rest of the issue becoming a great way to show off the new characters while doing little else visually. Read Full Review
Black Panther #15 ends the series the only way it can, with an anti-climactic end to Jhai's attack and a 12-page epilogue for everyone to say goodbye. If you've loved Ridley's run, this ending is more of the same. For everyone else, this issue is a waste of time. Read Full Review
Suffering from a lack of development in prior issues, 'Black Panther' #15 lands with a thud, even as certain sequences stand strong. Read Full Review
The conflict coasts to a quiet, bittersweet ending, and then it's on to epilogue business. Wakanda's new status quo is affirmed, the new characters are shelved where other authors can find them if they want to, and T'Challa rides off into the sunset of exile.
"Relief that it's over" is hardly the ideal feeling you want to evoke in your readers at the end of a run, but it is a (minor) positive for this issue. It also features good art and some snappy dialogue, making this finale a bit of an up-tick. Still, this volume isn't going into the hall of fame.
The issue's theme suits the end of a problematic volume: This is where we are now, and there's nothing to do but move forward.
A solid ending for this series. A lot of the ideas established here are certainly interesting when it comes to seeing how they'll play out in Eve L. Ewing's upcoming run, but there was just more to be desired here and from this run as a whole. A lot of this run had intriguing ideas without the best execution. Nonetheless, this issue gives Ridley's 15-issue run a solid finale.
I didn't hate this run, like it seems most people did. But this final issue had major pacing problems that made it a chore to get through at points.
this run was okay. It wasnt bad, but it wasnt good either.
My issue with this run is the lack of respect for t’challa. This story loves wakanda and it’s people, yet our boi has to be humiliated every step of the way.
Art looks good but this run has been terrible, the minute T'challa said "I live for this" I knew BP fans were in trouble and I guess I was right John Ridley cannot write BP to save his life. Everything about this run from the action to the dialog makes 0 sense
Ridley should be ashamed of himself. He has officially lost his Black card. This run was the WORST Black Panther run ever!! So now Wakanda has no king/queen, now are allied with the same man who flooded and sent Thanos' henchman to burn it to the ground on a lie and as the cherry on the top, is being run by all the women like its Biden's administration. Thousands of years of tradition is supposed to be gone in a few months?!? This shit is why I'm reading less and less of Marvel and just reading strictly independent publishers.
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