It seems like the best artwork Marvel has to offer right now is in the Ultimate Universe, but I can't say the same for the stories.

I don't get the point of this particular book.

Supposedly, in this universe the Maker build, he deprived the Marvel heroes from the circumstances that created them, their origins, so that they would no longer represent a threat to his designs, Tony Stark found out about it and now he is doing the impossible to fix what the Maker did and retrieve the original destiny of this universe.

That's the whole concept behind this new line of comics, but here it seems like the Maker did nothing to prevent T'Challa from becoming the Black Panther and protector of Wakanda.

It doesn't make sense. AT ALL.

In Earth-616, T'Challa is the leader of a world power with advanced technology, an Avenger and a member of the Illuminati, the Maker should have considered him one of the major potential threats to his reality, but the T'Challa of Earth-6160 is not only alive, he is not imprisoned, he is already king of Wakanda and the Black Panther, and Wakanda is still a secret nation.

Why did the Maker allow this?

It doesn't look like Tony Stark already helped T'Challa.

Maybe there will be an explanation for the plot hole at some point, but I don't know, and that leads me to my other problem with this comic:

I don't want to wait until the sixth issue to see if I like the story, the first issue, the first chapter, should be the one that sells me the series, instead this made me go like "Well, maybe this will lead to something interesting", I hate that feeling. These books are not cheap, you know.


SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

Why was T'Challa already king of Wakanda if his father was still alive? What kind of monarchy is that?

Also, what was the writer trying to tell me with the dialogue between T'Challa and Okoye at the beginning?

He, the King, doesn't want his wife, the Queen, to call him "My King" because they "are equals"... What?!

What does one thing have to do with the other?

If I was a King I would like it if my wife called me "My King" and I would call her "My Queen".

I don't get it.

Okoye looked very sad when she was talking about how the people would traditionally see her as less important than the King (a weird topic to discuss in the morning, if you ask me)... was she complaining about... THE PATRIARCHY???

"Traditions must change"

Whoa! That came out of nowhere. I don't like the agenda I'm seeing here.

Anyway, if T'Challa and Okoye are married, why do they sleep in separate beds?


Killmonger looks cool and surprisingly heroic, speaking of surprises, Ororo Munroe is his girlfriend and I kinda like it... but what's going on with her haircut? She's supposed to look like a goddess, not like that. Of all the haircuts Storm has displayed throughout the years, this has to be the worst.

I also don't like Okoye's haircut, that's not the look of a Queen, if she had her head completely shaved that would be better and more ceremonial than that haircut.

Enough of haircuts. I didn't like the "ending".

Why did they have to show us the dead and burnt body of T'Chaka?

It wasn't necessary to show it, but they did and I think the resulting panel is unintentionally funny, that drawing is like:

OOOOOH I'M BURNIIIIN!!!

And Black Panther staring at it like: Damn!

A little anticlimactic.

"Our enemy calls themselves: Moon Knight"

This is teasing that there would be a face-off between Black Panther and a Moon Knight, but, although I enjoy a good old fight between Marvel heroes, that also came out of nowhere, there was no real setup for that.

That is my review. Cool artwork, questionable story.