Black Panther Legends #1 offers a new take on the hero's origin and serves as a great introduction to the character for new fans. If you loved the Black Panther film, or want to know more about the character, I'd highly suggest picking this series up. And the next issue looks to continue exploring T'Challa's origins by revisiting his first meeting with another Marvel hero-in particular, one with who he shares a strong connection. Read Full Review

Artist Setor Fiadzigbey brings this world and its characters to life with a very unique and lavish style. The lush forests of Wakanda nicely contrast with the sleek, futuristic design of its buildings and technology. The book has such a dynamic look that evena boardroom scene focusing on Wakandan politics looks incredible. Paris Alleynes colors have such a pure, watercolor style that meshes perfectly with Fiadzigbeys pencils. Its a beautiful book that youll want read again with each subsequent issue. Read Full Review

Black Panther Legends #1 offers an intriguing setup involving a young T'Challa connecting to the very real tragedy of apartheid in South Africa. Marvel has always been about the world outside your window, and this series aims to explore the complexities and difficult world a young Black Panther must grow up in. Read Full Review

It is an interesting story even if you do not include this aspect so if you are a fan of the Black Panther or just want to know more about this character I would recommend it. Read Full Review

Black Panther Legends #1 is a great entry point for someone who is looking for a place to start reading comics. Read Full Review

Legends is a good read for comic readers looking to learn more about T'Challa but it has a few rough edges that stop it from being truly great. Read Full Review

If you ignore the giant flashing "BUY ME IN BULK FOR YOUR 7TH-GRADE ENGLISH CURRICULUM" sign, it's a decent all-ages story with a nice blend of multiple continuities. But if you DO consider it as a "teaching tool" book, it's … also pretty nice, with some solid thought- and discussion-provoking links to South African history. The art could be better, though. It is pretty, but it could/should do better visual storytelling.

(Why is T'Challa wearing a caucasian-colored band-aid? Because that's a local South African band-aid.)

This is fine enough, for a children's comic. The biggest issue here was the art was rough, and I don't know what happened with the lettering, but it was terrible. Whoever did it needs to figure out spacing. The comic establishes that Apartheid and colonization is a bad thing, which is a very fair thing to teach children. It also teaches kids to stand up for one another which is, again, totally fair and valid.

Now for the meme part of the review. The only other review listed right now is by Merlyn, and instead of judging this comic on its true merits, he gets hung up on a single panel and one mention of a country. Liberia. Onyebuchi doesn't do anything close to historical revisionism. Here is the quote from the issue, spoken by T'Chaka: "...the history of this continent is a sad one. Our fellow Africans in the Congo and in South Africa and in Liberia, all of them have suffered for what lies beneath their feet. Wars have been waged over wealth that never finds its way back to the community." There's no historical revisionism here. Liberia has suffered for what resources they have, to the benefit of European nations. How? Through exploitative trade for centuries. What resource? Pepper grains. See, Europeans such as the Dutch, the Portugese and British established trading posts to get these extremely valuable spices. This included forcing the people in the land of Liberia at the time to give up some of their land. And of course, the bulk of the wealth from these trading posts never went into Africa. Europeans just used it to fund themselves and further colonial action. So, this is not historical revisionism on the part of the writer. This is just fact. The context of this quote is that T'Chaka has been approached by a UN ambassador, Ulysses Klaue (Yes, the villain, if you weren't sure this is a bad thing) about having the UN help them mine the resources Wakanda has, specifically their vibranium, as a middle man of sorts... Sound like what the Europeans did to Africa at all? Of course it does. This is why you should read your comics, and not trust dumbfucks.

But let's go through Merlyn's claims, just to thoroughly debunk his shit: First, he goes off on a tangent about Liberia's racist governance, as though that proves any sort of point. This is a tactic to delegitimize the potential suffering of the people that live here. There's no denying that discriminating against the race/ethnicity of a group of people is racist. But that has nothing to do with what T'Chaka is saying. Then he says Liberia was supposed to be a real life Wakanda, but that it failed even though white people didn't interfere as they did in the rest of the African continent. Bit of a loaded claim. First of all, Wakanda is a fake country made up for a comic book universe, where their sovereignty was dependent on a fictional, super-natural alien metal with mystical roots, crashing into the African continent millions of years ago, and depositing in the soil, leading to massive technological advancement. What Merlyn is probably saying is that Wakanda is an ethnostate. Since, you know, Liberia is one. This is not the case. In fact, in this very issue, the Royal Family of Wakanda has adopted a Caucasian boy, who is being raised with T'Challa, and is explicitly treated as equal to everyone. There's a whole scene about that to demonstrate just how bad Apartheid was in South Africa. And if that's not enough to convince you, there's a whole movie where Black Panther fights a black separatist who tries to take over Wakanda and war with the western world. Second, white people interfered super heavily in Liberia. First, there were the trading posts by Europeans. Then, you get to the establishment of Liberia as an American colony. That's right, for over 20 years, Liberia was not an independent nation. It was a colony created by the American Colonization Society. Initially run by a whole bunch of white people who believed that freed black slaves had no place in America. America shipped these people off to Africa, despite them living in America their entire lives, where they then eventually pushed their way into Liberia and intermingled with the people already living there. All at the behest of white people. And of course, then they took the land and made it a colony. But white people never interfered, I guess. Oh and then when the colony of Liberia was too much of a financial burden on America, America forced them to establish their sovereignty so America didn't have to support them. But again, I guess white people never interfered. The rest of the review is nothing but Merlyn's delusions about lies being told and how the kids are going to be turned into... traitors, I guess. Not really worth going into, he just needs to get help. I think I've said enough to make his review look as foolish as it is. more

Maybe I would have liked this more if not for the historical revisionism that Onyebuchi tries to apply here regarding Liberia, a country that doesn't give citizenship to white people (guess that's racist but whatever) and that was supposed to be a real life Wakanda but failed, even though white people didn't interfere as they did in the rest of the African continent. But for extremists the truth doesn't really matter, it's all about ideology. It's a shame that this book is targeted for YA and young people are impressionable so they would believe these lies.

P.S.: I love it when losers screech at stuff they don't want to hear and try to cover that up by deliberately misinterpreting what I say and ramble on to try to "win", my job here was done. Please don't trust their lies and just inform yourselves on the matters discussed here. more