DEATHLOK'S NEW TARGET: T'CHALLA!
The five crime families that rule Birnin T'Chaka have heard the rumors that the Black Panther is lurking in the shadows, so they bring in a hired gun to help protect their interests?the cyborg assassin known as DEATHLOK!
Rated T+
Ewing's Black Panther continues to be the kind of serialized, satisfying story we all love to read. Read Full Review
T'Challa begins to delve deeper into the secrets, lives, and customs of the new city he calls home as ‘Black Panther' #3 throws a new wrench into the mix. A beautiful series in every facet, which takes on a brand new yet familiar journey with this iconic character. Truly this creative team has found a way to breathe more life into Wakanda by giving it an even more distinct energy and culture. Read Full Review
Na na na na na, great issue! Read Full Review
Black Panther #3 is all buildup with very little payoff, laying the groundwork for an explosive follow up in the next issue with Deathlok, political consequences, and exciting action. However, what is here drags significantly, and as its own issue doesn't stand well on its own. Even as the piece of a larger puzzle, this issue is boring at its worst, and plot-driven at best. Read Full Review
Allen and Chater deliver some great looking art in the issue. The visuals are great and do a wonderful job of highlighting the glamour and splendor of Wakanda, but not much else. Read Full Review
Black Panther #3 clears away the distractions and focuses on the task at hand by teaming Black Panther with Beisa to find out which crime family is behind a string of disappearances as an advent to a mob war. The script is tighter and focused, and the art is good. That said, it's painfully obvious Ewing is writing a Batman story in a Wakandan wrapper. Read Full Review
This series continues to maintain a good pace that keeps my interest. Ewing has done a fairly solid job of making Beisa a likable character and I'm looking forward to learning more about her as this series progresses. I don't have that much to say about this issue, but I thought T'Challa bringing up his wedding with Ororo was funny.
The first scene is brilliant in dialogue, visuals, and relationships. Unfortunately, the rest of the issue gets a bit lost in the tall grass.
The writer laboriously outlines a crime family conflict that will drive the action in future issues. It's clear and logical, but it's not novel to anybody who's watched The Godfather (maybe this is just me being a cynical old geezer). And this gangster groundwork eats up a LOT of pages.
On the visual front, I kind of see my fears coming true. Chris Allen is struggling to maintain the overwhelming level of detail he produced in the previous issues, and here he requires a few pages of pinch-hitting from Mack Chater. Chater's pages are decent, but the shift in tone is jarring, dista more
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