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Plot
T'challa dreams of the battle against Moon Knight, where something inside him makes him murder him in cold blood and decapitate him. Black Panther meets with the Vodu-Khan priest, Matron Imala, who continues to answer questions cryptically, making him understand that the vibranium wound has turned Black Panther into a channel for the power of Vibranium, who will be the first king to achieve this. T'challa fears that the vibranium will take over his judgment. Imala knows more than she is saying and is manipulating T'challa.
The battle between Black Panther and Moon Knight is short, where T'challa easily defeats Moon Knight and the vibranium orders him to kill him, just at that moment Storm, Killmonger and the supernal sorceress Inan arrive, who stops Black Panther and tells him that she will help save him from the control of the vibranium.
T'challa managed to make out five dark humanoid silhouettes with glowing eyes, those are the "aliens" trapped inside the vibranium.
This arc closes in a magnificent way, with the mystery of the vibranium beginning to reveal itself.
Art
It is carefully detailed in the facial expressions, with a lot of dynamism that makes the story exciting, where we see Black Panther showing that he is a powerful warrior.
Summary
Black Panther vs Moon Knight, a short fight but one that reveals who/who are the ones who control the vibranium more
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8.0
I understand people's criticisms, but I enjoyed this, for the most part. It is still a bit of a slow burn, especially for a story that's supposed to be being told in real time. Though, I do think it's fairly well-written. Caselli's art is, arguably, the best part about this book.
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6.0
2 Minute Read...
Okay so a solid 5/5 for the art I'm loving most of the panel work. But the writing continues to fall apart at least in terms of pacing. I finished this comic in at least 2 minutes or at most 3 minutes.
Starting off with a great scene where Tchalla goes out of character to behead his defeated foe Moon knight it only turns out to be a dream. I get it, but honestly would have been cool to commit to this especially that this is an Ultimate universe created by the Maker that will eventually be fixed by The Ultimates eventually?
From there he finally has his fight and easily defeats Moonknight with a swift upper kick to the face sending him flying. Seriously. That's it. Kind of anti-climactic after all that build up unless there will be a second phase of fighting in issue 13 but that would be silly.
Then he sees these four giant dark figures trying to influence him to end Moon Knight only to be stopped by that chick I already forgot her name but she is Sorcerer Supreme in this ultimate universe or something.
Sorry to make it sound so bare minimum but that's how it felt for me.
After the many great issues of nice lengthy dialogue and world building it seems the writer is losing steam. Issue 11 was not terrible but not good either. Well this one was bad.
I don't want to give a super low devastating score because I don't think it would be fair to totally give up. The artist is still doing a tops job and most of this run in this reviewer's opinion has been solid so it is okay to have a few bummers. But not giving a high score either because if the story continues to intellectually weaken like this it should not be rewarded. more
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6.0
the art is really solid, but it is a bit too slow for me. I get how this is a slow-burn book, but the writing for T'Challa doesn't make me engage to him. It's not bad at all, but I wish it could be better
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