As the Black Panther and an Avenger, T'Challa has had to save the world time and again -- but those duties pale in comparison to his responsibilities as king of Wakanda. As the nation rebuilds in the wake of revolution, T'Challa finds his people besieged by a massive monster tearing through the country, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake!
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Nnedi Okorafor's all-ages T'Challa side-story gets interrupted by a completely different (and weaker) kiddie T'Challa side-story. Aaron Covington's script teams T'Challa up with a childhood friend who specializes in robo-animals to take down M'Baku and Baron Macabre. Mario Del Pennino's art is the one silver lining here; it's a perfect model of what "all-ages Black Panther" should look like. Mr. Del Pennino's art drags this issue, kicking and screaming, up to average.
If you make Ta-Nehisi Coates's subtle and cerebral Panther your yardstick, though, you can knock a point or two off my rating. It's particularly galling to see Shuri, recently reborn as a uniquely badass spirit-warrior, cast in the role of "helpless mission control more
T'Challa's friend Kantu has shallow motivation at best.
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