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Black Panther (2005) (Collected Editions)
Civil War: Black Panther
Collects Black Panther (2005) #19-25.
The Royal Couple, King T'Challa and Queen Ororo, embark on a diplomatic tour that will have them spanning the globe - and beyond! Stops include Latveria (Dr. Doom), the Moon (Black Bolt and the Inhumans), Atlantis (Namor the Sub-Mariner) and the Civil War-ravaged United States, for a meeting with none other than the point man for the U.S. government's implementation of the Superhuman Registration Act: Tony Stark, T'Challa's former Avengers teammate. Will the Black Panther and Storm decide to get off the sidelines of the Civil War and get involved?
The Royal Couple, King T'Challa and Queen Ororo, embark on a diplomatic tour that will have them spanning the globe - and beyond! Stops include Latveria (Dr. Doom), the Moon (Black Bolt and the Inhumans), Atlantis (Namor the Sub-Mariner) and the Civil War-ravaged United States, for a meeting with none other than the point man for the U.S. government's implementation of the Superhuman Registration Act: Tony Stark, T'Challa's former Avengers teammate. Will the Black Panther and Storm decide to get off the sidelines of the Civil War and get involved?
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February 9, 2017
Hey! Its Marvel’s then newly married power couple Storm and the Black Panther.
My wedding invitation got lost in the mail, but nobody cares about me and my make-believe problems as a social pariah and I guess the newlyweds won’t be needing my wedding gift of a $5 gift certificate to Waffle House.
Yo Jeff, isn’t this a little early in a review for you going off the rails?
It’s never too early and these aren’t normal times, concerned Goodreader. There’s a Civil War going on and T’challa post- honeymoon is on a diplomatic mission to gauge opinions about Murican super-hero registration from his peers.
So, he’s probably going to Denmark, the Seychelles Islands, Canada right?
Nope, he’s taking the wacky despot world tour.
First stop: Latvaria, where he has a pissing contest with Dr. Doom that leads to predictable brawl.
Next, to the moon, Alice! It seems that the Inhumans have problems of their own with infighting and the happy couple barely escape having Lockjaw do something naughty to their space craft.
Lastly, it’s on to Atlantis, to pay their respects to everybody’s favorite underwater crank, Namor.
Namor does the whole flashback thing and recounts a time during World War II when he and Captain America fought the Nazis in Africa. While Namor was getting his fish-butt handed to him by a 7 foot tall stripper with a swastika bustier (I looked for pictures on the internet as proof, but couldn’t find any.), Cap was fighting T’Challa’s granddad.
As Fishstick boy’s guests, T’Challa and Ororo were forced to politely listen to this, you dear reader are spared.
Namor was unusually chatty (and nice), so if I had to guess, I’d assume it was a talkative Namor-bot.
Conclusion drawn from the trip: Black Panther needs to have done something, like, back in issue #19.
The actual Civil War issues were some of the worst ones I’ve read. Sometimes a writer has a hard time shoehorning a character into an ongoing event and maybe that’s the issue for Reginald Hudlin.
There’s the requisite confrontations with Tony Stark and Captain America…
…before T’Challa picks a side and then starts sniffing-up the female members of Cap’s team.
Dear God! Don’t go there, Jeff! Just don’t!
Race is even factored into the Civil War. On the face of it, a compelling idea to be explored, but it’s clumsily handled and soon dropped.
The final showdown offers up some of the worst dialogue I’ve read in a comic in a while:
Yikes!
Mrs. Jeff’s Bottom line: My wife likes the character of Black Panther as offered up on the screen and even liked the fact that he was married here in this volume. She thought the art was sub-par and story middling to fair.
On the subject of hair:
Her: Did Namor always sport an Eddie Munster hair style?
Me: Yes. Since he was kicking Hitler in the nutsack. And since we’re talking about hair: Do you think Storm would look good in a Mohawk?
Her: Who the hell wears a Mohawk? What is this, the ‘80’s?
Heh.
Mandatory cute pic for Trish.
My wedding invitation got lost in the mail, but nobody cares about me and my make-believe problems as a social pariah and I guess the newlyweds won’t be needing my wedding gift of a $5 gift certificate to Waffle House.
Yo Jeff, isn’t this a little early in a review for you going off the rails?
It’s never too early and these aren’t normal times, concerned Goodreader. There’s a Civil War going on and T’challa post- honeymoon is on a diplomatic mission to gauge opinions about Murican super-hero registration from his peers.
So, he’s probably going to Denmark, the Seychelles Islands, Canada right?
Nope, he’s taking the wacky despot world tour.
First stop: Latvaria, where he has a pissing contest with Dr. Doom that leads to predictable brawl.
Next, to the moon, Alice! It seems that the Inhumans have problems of their own with infighting and the happy couple barely escape having Lockjaw do something naughty to their space craft.
Lastly, it’s on to Atlantis, to pay their respects to everybody’s favorite underwater crank, Namor.
Namor does the whole flashback thing and recounts a time during World War II when he and Captain America fought the Nazis in Africa. While Namor was getting his fish-butt handed to him by a 7 foot tall stripper with a swastika bustier (I looked for pictures on the internet as proof, but couldn’t find any.), Cap was fighting T’Challa’s granddad.
As Fishstick boy’s guests, T’Challa and Ororo were forced to politely listen to this, you dear reader are spared.
Namor was unusually chatty (and nice), so if I had to guess, I’d assume it was a talkative Namor-bot.
Conclusion drawn from the trip: Black Panther needs to have done something, like, back in issue #19.
The actual Civil War issues were some of the worst ones I’ve read. Sometimes a writer has a hard time shoehorning a character into an ongoing event and maybe that’s the issue for Reginald Hudlin.
There’s the requisite confrontations with Tony Stark and Captain America…
…before T’Challa picks a side and then starts sniffing-up the female members of Cap’s team.
Dear God! Don’t go there, Jeff! Just don’t!
Race is even factored into the Civil War. On the face of it, a compelling idea to be explored, but it’s clumsily handled and soon dropped.
The final showdown offers up some of the worst dialogue I’ve read in a comic in a while:
Yikes!
Mrs. Jeff’s Bottom line: My wife likes the character of Black Panther as offered up on the screen and even liked the fact that he was married here in this volume. She thought the art was sub-par and story middling to fair.
On the subject of hair:
Her: Did Namor always sport an Eddie Munster hair style?
Me: Yes. Since he was kicking Hitler in the nutsack. And since we’re talking about hair: Do you think Storm would look good in a Mohawk?
Her: Who the hell wears a Mohawk? What is this, the ‘80’s?
Heh.
Mandatory cute pic for Trish.
September 23, 2021
This is a collection set during the major Marvel event. In this one, Black Panther along with his wife, Storm, decide how they want to handle the events that are happening in America.
My enjoyment was all over the place with this collection. Actually, it seemed like every time I was getting into it the story did a nosedive and I was disappointed. First off, we start off with Dr. Doom. If you start off with Doom I am hooked right away. Unfortunately, he only appeared for the first issue and the pattern was set. The book looked like it was going to explore foreign policy and I was interested. Once again I was let down as it was just touched upon. We are getting this terrific final battle between two iconic characters but then the dialogue is just groan worthy. That was the pattern of this collection. Every time I thought "Ooh. This could be good" it ended up "Aw. Why did they do that?".
I have read worse side companions to this event and I have read better. The problem with this companion collection is the peaks are really high while the valleys are really low. My enjoyment went up and down throughout the collection. This was my first look at this power couple and it was a highlight of the collection.
My enjoyment was all over the place with this collection. Actually, it seemed like every time I was getting into it the story did a nosedive and I was disappointed. First off, we start off with Dr. Doom. If you start off with Doom I am hooked right away. Unfortunately, he only appeared for the first issue and the pattern was set. The book looked like it was going to explore foreign policy and I was interested. Once again I was let down as it was just touched upon. We are getting this terrific final battle between two iconic characters but then the dialogue is just groan worthy. That was the pattern of this collection. Every time I thought "Ooh. This could be good" it ended up "Aw. Why did they do that?".
I have read worse side companions to this event and I have read better. The problem with this companion collection is the peaks are really high while the valleys are really low. My enjoyment went up and down throughout the collection. This was my first look at this power couple and it was a highlight of the collection.
July 27, 2022
Some of the writing comes across as a little heavy-handed...but at the same time this was a great addition to my understanding of the whole Civil War era and really made me nostalgic for the T'Challa-Ororo royal couple days.
May 30, 2016
My first Black Panther comic, in preparation for reading what Ta-Nehisi Coates does with the character. Not a fan of Hudlin's cheesy writing, though the exchanges between Ororo (Storm) and T'Challa (Black Panther) were okay, in part because she at least seems a little real to me.
We get to meet a lot of black super-hero types (and white ones, too) on a kind of World Tour in connection with the Civil War I don't know anything about, don't want to know anything about, who cares. The art, done by four different artists, is just okay, though the art by Koi Turnbull is SO different to be problematic. What happens here? Mostly a lot of talk, not much actually happens, all expository.
We get to meet a lot of black super-hero types (and white ones, too) on a kind of World Tour in connection with the Civil War I don't know anything about, don't want to know anything about, who cares. The art, done by four different artists, is just okay, though the art by Koi Turnbull is SO different to be problematic. What happens here? Mostly a lot of talk, not much actually happens, all expository.
March 28, 2018
Some of the art in the middle got pretty fugly but all in all this was a good book.
May 17, 2016
3.5 stars
This was my first experience with Black Panther, and I have to say that I enjoyed him. He is a very interesting character in the Marvel universe. He adds the unique perspective of a non-white, non-American, extremely intelligent and skilled fighter. Which is probably the most important thing about this volume. He adds a global perspective and a black perspective to the Civil War storyline, which is very important in my opinion. Black Panther and Storm bring attention to the racial inequalities that still exist worldwide and the increasing prominence of globalization.
And it has some pretty good art and dialogue.
This was my first experience with Black Panther, and I have to say that I enjoyed him. He is a very interesting character in the Marvel universe. He adds the unique perspective of a non-white, non-American, extremely intelligent and skilled fighter. Which is probably the most important thing about this volume. He adds a global perspective and a black perspective to the Civil War storyline, which is very important in my opinion. Black Panther and Storm bring attention to the racial inequalities that still exist worldwide and the increasing prominence of globalization.
And it has some pretty good art and dialogue.
November 12, 2020
Civil War: Black Pather collects issues 19-25 of Black Panther by Reginald Hudlin with art by Scot Eaton, Manuel Garcia, and Koi Turnbull.
After the wedding of Black Panther and Storm, the couple travels to Latveria, Atlantis, the Moon, and the United States on diplomatic missions. As the tour progresses, it becomes increasingly more clear that the couple will need to pick a side in Civil War.
Civil War was the event that got me in Marvel Comics many years ago, reading through this arc you get the over arching themes and events, but it leaves you guessing at some others. To get a full picture of what was going on, you would definitely have to read a few different books. The change in artists was a bit distracting as I was getting used to Eaton's work.
After the wedding of Black Panther and Storm, the couple travels to Latveria, Atlantis, the Moon, and the United States on diplomatic missions. As the tour progresses, it becomes increasingly more clear that the couple will need to pick a side in Civil War.
Civil War was the event that got me in Marvel Comics many years ago, reading through this arc you get the over arching themes and events, but it leaves you guessing at some others. To get a full picture of what was going on, you would definitely have to read a few different books. The change in artists was a bit distracting as I was getting used to Eaton's work.
February 6, 2020
I mean I enjoyed this but I prefer the black panther comics which are set in Wakanda rather than T'challa's excursions to the west. The art is good but sometime they drew storm with white features and it threw me off. I will read the next issues just for the entertainment value if nothing else.
September 27, 2022
A friend loaned me a CD-ROM version {I know, right?!} of the entire Marvel Civil War saga back when I was first getting into reading graphic novels. After a while, I got burnt out on it and threw in the towel. All I can say about this is: at the time it didn't really grab me, but it could've been due to reader fatigue. I really liked T'Challa in the Captain America: Civil War movie and am looking forward to the Panther's stand-alone film(s).
October 3, 2015
This was a good Civil War tie-in, some things that were unexplained on the main story line are clarified here . We get to see Ororo adjusting to her new role as Queen and wife and rocking it, of course. The U.S. government on the other hand does another horrible show of appalling diplomacy.
September 1, 2016
La verdad es que no aporta mucho a la historia principal de civil war. Añade un cierto trasfondo político a una historia que creo que ya tiene suficiente de eso, resulta entretenido pero es bastante prescindible.
May 30, 2012
This has got to be the worst honeymoon ever.
November 17, 2020
This book, for me at least, was a slight improvement on the rest of the series that I've read so far. There were less leaps and presumed knowledge, but still had a lot of room for improvement. Maybe it was down to the fact that it was focused on just the story of Black Panther within the Civil War event, rather than jumping perspective every 5 minutes.
Either way, a move in the right direction and a very enjoyable read... but I would still say it's better for people already familiar with the Marvel Universe rather than people trying to get to grips with it.
Either way, a move in the right direction and a very enjoyable read... but I would still say it's better for people already familiar with the Marvel Universe rather than people trying to get to grips with it.
February 28, 2018
Decided to borrow this from the library as the movie was coming out, and my experience with Black Panther is very limited. Interesting to see that Storm is married to Black Panther, and she is now a queen. Civil War is an epic tale as it seems like everyone is against each other; doesn’t matter if you are human, mutant or a superhero. Good introduction to the character.
February 1, 2020
7.8 solid
The story flowed well and was intriguing. The art was fabulous but there was a lack of action. It had a good set up but it wasnt lime a civil war end. The ending was a bit disappointing as the start was fantastic. I loved the way black phanter and storm were written. Characters were written well but at the end it is a solid comic book.
The story flowed well and was intriguing. The art was fabulous but there was a lack of action. It had a good set up but it wasnt lime a civil war end. The ending was a bit disappointing as the start was fantastic. I loved the way black phanter and storm were written. Characters were written well but at the end it is a solid comic book.
April 16, 2017
Aish, qué bonico el traje de la Ororo. :)
July 24, 2017
Black Panther: Civil War is my first Black Panther comic. While some of the art in the last couple of issues was weak, the first two or so were gorgeous, and the back-and-forth between Ororo (Storm) and T'Challa (Black Panther) was a joy to read. Like the Civil War event and all the other tie-ins, this story has a lot to do with politics and dealing with the idea of friends against friends. It fills the gaps in the main event, adding (in my opinion) some stellar moments, one in particular involving James "Rhodey" Rhodes (War Machine), Tony Stark (Iron Man), Ororo, and T'Challa.
You get a good sense of who T'Challa is: Regal, kind, intelligent, and stern. His wife, Ororo Munroe, oftentimes works as his equal, being the wittier and more American (being that she was born in America rather than Wakanda, the country of T'Challa that she reigns as queen of in this book) character.
Racial prejudice plays a large part in the scenes of the story that involve Everett Ross. It's a pleasure to see the different ways characters deal with it, especially T'Challa, who has become a new favorite of mine.
In short, this story is fantastic, and as different (and much more personal) as the MCU version of the Civil War may be, I am even more excited to see the Black Panther on screen after reading this.
You get a good sense of who T'Challa is: Regal, kind, intelligent, and stern. His wife, Ororo Munroe, oftentimes works as his equal, being the wittier and more American (being that she was born in America rather than Wakanda, the country of T'Challa that she reigns as queen of in this book) character.
Racial prejudice plays a large part in the scenes of the story that involve Everett Ross. It's a pleasure to see the different ways characters deal with it, especially T'Challa, who has become a new favorite of mine.
In short, this story is fantastic, and as different (and much more personal) as the MCU version of the Civil War may be, I am even more excited to see the Black Panther on screen after reading this.
August 6, 2011
This is the first Black Panther collection I've ever read. I have to say, I really like the character, and the multinational political story it told was great. The Civil War backdrop worked really well, until the end. Once again, the lack of clarity regarding the chronology of the other stories in the Civil War plot made the pace and narrative feel a bit funny near the end. Overall, however, it was a great book.
September 8, 2008
Super hero African royalty is pure comic book spice and Black Panther's good will tour served as a nice metaphor for Bush era international diplomacy. The book looses some steam once it heads stateside but is still entertaining.
September 13, 2015
Algo loquillo ese encuentro que tiene black panter con Doctor Doom :$
June 11, 2019
For me, the ultimate Black Panther will be the Christopher Priest (originally Jim Owsley) run on the book. Most of the well known elements of the Black Panther mythos lifted for the Marvel Cinematic Universe have their origins (or were signal boosted) during Priest's run--Everett Ross, Wakanda's "coming out" to the world, Killmonger's ascendance...these were all elements of the brilliant Priest run. So what does one do to follow up something so iconic? Even though Black Panther was created by two white Jews (Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, in the pages of Fantastic Four) common 21st century wisdom is that the best stewards of Black Panther are African-American creators like Priest, Ta-Nehisi Coates and the author of this collection, Reginald Hudlin. As I've already stated, I revere the Priest run and Coates was the author of Between the World and Me, which was a life-altering book for me. Hudlin was a bit of an enigma to me, as his career bona fides are impressive (he was involved with the Bernie Mac Show before his time on Black Panther and he made Marshall the story of Thurgood Marshall starring Black Panther himself, Chadwick Boseman, after the run) but he isn't the sort of person I would think of as a "traditional" comics scriptor, even though movie storyboarding and comic books have a lot in common. And once I began to read, it turned out that I was familiar with something Hudlin had introduced into Black Panther and that I was sceptical of--T'Challa's marriage to the X-Man Storm.
Since my motivation to read this volume was to read Civil War crossovers, my initial reaction to this collection was that I wished I had read all of the Hudlin Black Panther before engaging with the Civil War crossover. This volume begins on T'Challa and Storm's "honeymoon" and has the king and his new queen engaging in "diplomacy" with the likes of Doctor Doom and Namor in the lead up to the actual Civil War crossover. Both arcs are solid, especially given that the plot is somewhat driven by Marvel editorial's adherence to the Civil War story arc. As I have pointed out in numerous previous reviews of trades that are part of these publisher "events" (most recently the Ms. Marvel: Civil War II crossover) that I feel that often these "events" are limiting to the creative teams trying to get their own story to fit the "event." Hudlin accomplishes this very well, which is probably going to be the motivating factor for me to check out his work when Marvel editorial isn't pressing down on it. I can only assume it will be just as good.
This is one of the better Civil War crossovers I've read up to this point, surpassing the quality of Civil War itself. That seems to be a recurring theme with these crossovers but that seems to largely be a function of who is actually generating the material. I'm definitely going to be checking out the rest of Hudlin's Black Panther run, even if I'm still not necessarily on board with the fact that T'Challa and Storm were once married to each other.
Since my motivation to read this volume was to read Civil War crossovers, my initial reaction to this collection was that I wished I had read all of the Hudlin Black Panther before engaging with the Civil War crossover. This volume begins on T'Challa and Storm's "honeymoon" and has the king and his new queen engaging in "diplomacy" with the likes of Doctor Doom and Namor in the lead up to the actual Civil War crossover. Both arcs are solid, especially given that the plot is somewhat driven by Marvel editorial's adherence to the Civil War story arc. As I have pointed out in numerous previous reviews of trades that are part of these publisher "events" (most recently the Ms. Marvel: Civil War II crossover) that I feel that often these "events" are limiting to the creative teams trying to get their own story to fit the "event." Hudlin accomplishes this very well, which is probably going to be the motivating factor for me to check out his work when Marvel editorial isn't pressing down on it. I can only assume it will be just as good.
This is one of the better Civil War crossovers I've read up to this point, surpassing the quality of Civil War itself. That seems to be a recurring theme with these crossovers but that seems to largely be a function of who is actually generating the material. I'm definitely going to be checking out the rest of Hudlin's Black Panther run, even if I'm still not necessarily on board with the fact that T'Challa and Storm were once married to each other.
February 2, 2018
And today we are continuing my random meander through the world of Black Panther, as available through my public library. And Y'all will be excited to hear I actually fully enjoyed this one. I mean, this book does literally open with Storm's ass front and center, but what can I say I have almost zero expectations and at least she looks fairly comfortable....
To dig a little bit deeper, and provide more than a few face palming screenshots here, while the representation of bodies (their positions and states of dress) was fairly standard, with women being more sexualized than men, there were a few mitigating factors that helped me not rage quit this book due to my feminist agenda.
The main thing that affected my reaction to this book was that Hudlin is a dude writing a marginally feminist aware book, at most. So, unlike Gail Simone's Bat Girl, instead of feeling like the bombardment of female ass' was an attack on a generally modest empowered female character, it really did just feel par for the course. It also helped that to start with, between T'Challa and Prince Namor, we get a few more shirtless dudes then I'm used to. Unfortunately the last few issues, where a lot more random ladies in spandex (or less) show up, and after more than one art team change up, we do get a lot more badly executed attempts to provide the reader with super soft core porn.
Storm's ass aside, the art is by far my least favorite part of this comic. I wouldn't say it's uniquely bad, but it does demonstrate many of the reasons that I didn't pick up super-hero comics, and particularly Marvel, for so long. The artist team also changes a lot, mostly for the worst, which is annoying but not terribly surprising. I generally avoid cross-over events because they seem so chaotic.
Going into this story I was almost as ill-prepared as I was for the first volume of Coates'. Only having read that, and World of Wakanda, I had never even read anything related to Civil War before, but somehow Hudlin made it work. Ok, I had a pretty vague idea what civil war was about in general thanks to the MCU, but still.... It was an interesting contrast to coates', where I get deeper and deeper and only become more confused.
Overall what I liked most about this volume was the way in which it is structured as a collection of short stories, taking us out to the fringes of this marvel earth, with an overarching build up to the final story. I'm also apparently mid-2000's Hudlin level woke, so I actually got the cultural references and jokes. We also get to meet Doctor Doom, Black Bolt, and Namor all trying to pull T'challa into an anti-American conspiracy, what isn't there to like! OK, it would have been nice if Storm could have had an equal role, but again, my expectations are so low right now. It wasn't hatefully bad and their banter was super cute.
To dig a little bit deeper, and provide more than a few face palming screenshots here, while the representation of bodies (their positions and states of dress) was fairly standard, with women being more sexualized than men, there were a few mitigating factors that helped me not rage quit this book due to my feminist agenda.
The main thing that affected my reaction to this book was that Hudlin is a dude writing a marginally feminist aware book, at most. So, unlike Gail Simone's Bat Girl, instead of feeling like the bombardment of female ass' was an attack on a generally modest empowered female character, it really did just feel par for the course. It also helped that to start with, between T'Challa and Prince Namor, we get a few more shirtless dudes then I'm used to. Unfortunately the last few issues, where a lot more random ladies in spandex (or less) show up, and after more than one art team change up, we do get a lot more badly executed attempts to provide the reader with super soft core porn.
Storm's ass aside, the art is by far my least favorite part of this comic. I wouldn't say it's uniquely bad, but it does demonstrate many of the reasons that I didn't pick up super-hero comics, and particularly Marvel, for so long. The artist team also changes a lot, mostly for the worst, which is annoying but not terribly surprising. I generally avoid cross-over events because they seem so chaotic.
Going into this story I was almost as ill-prepared as I was for the first volume of Coates'. Only having read that, and World of Wakanda, I had never even read anything related to Civil War before, but somehow Hudlin made it work. Ok, I had a pretty vague idea what civil war was about in general thanks to the MCU, but still.... It was an interesting contrast to coates', where I get deeper and deeper and only become more confused.
Overall what I liked most about this volume was the way in which it is structured as a collection of short stories, taking us out to the fringes of this marvel earth, with an overarching build up to the final story. I'm also apparently mid-2000's Hudlin level woke, so I actually got the cultural references and jokes. We also get to meet Doctor Doom, Black Bolt, and Namor all trying to pull T'challa into an anti-American conspiracy, what isn't there to like! OK, it would have been nice if Storm could have had an equal role, but again, my expectations are so low right now. It wasn't hatefully bad and their banter was super cute.
November 26, 2023
Following "The Bride" arc where Storm and T'Challa get married, the pair attempt to begin their married life with minimal distractions. But the massive "Civil War" event is looming and that threatens their various interests around the world. But before Hudlin jumps head first into the messiness that was the Civil War storyline, he delivers some massive scale geopolitics on the newly minted couple first. The initial few issues has Doom, Black Bolt and Namor all presenting problems for Wakanda, forcing T'Challa to respond. Each of these issues is hilariously overambitious for the scope of a single issue, somewhat breaking the threshold of believability. The politics of the conflict between Latveria, Attilan and Atlantis easily could have been covered in separate arcs, but Hudlin speedruns through them in just three issues. Then we get to Civil War, which admittedly Hudlin does a pretty good job on the tie-in issues making the T'Challa and Storm pairing seem like an integral part to the action. I quite enjoyed the Storm/Sue Storm pairing (heh, I feel like this intentional) as they attempt to take down Iron Man's badly cloned Thor who kills Goliath during the events of Civil War.
The writing is as tediously verbose as has been Hudlin's style for the past few volumes, so that only compounds the frustration I had reading these issues. Various artists contribute to the pages here, with my favorite being Manuel Garcia's contributions. For a event tie-in book, there was stuff here worth exploring, but unfortunately most of the rest read as a dud for me.
The writing is as tediously verbose as has been Hudlin's style for the past few volumes, so that only compounds the frustration I had reading these issues. Various artists contribute to the pages here, with my favorite being Manuel Garcia's contributions. For a event tie-in book, there was stuff here worth exploring, but unfortunately most of the rest read as a dud for me.
June 12, 2022
La serialización Black Panther no debería llamarse más así, sino Black Panther & Storm, pero eso ya es otra discusión que no viene ahora, pero no quería dejarlo pasar. En estos volúmenes donde nos explican como va T’Challa encaminándose al conflicto de los superhéroes deja varias preguntas interesantes, pero sin respuesta, sobre la real importancia que el rey le dedica a su reino, teniendo en cuenta que termina pasando más tiempo en USA que en Wakanda. Sinceramente, se me hizo más agradable cuando T’Challa y Ororo conversaban sobre las reflexiones de Civil War, que el mismo enfrentamiento de ellos en el evento, pero es una cosa de gusto. De todas maneras, el matrimonio de ellos dos, no hay fan que lo haya disfrutado y haya sentido un bálsama de luz y esperanza en la vida, fue maravilloso. Y si bien me gusta como ambos van trabajando el conflicto, siento que se va simplificando demasiado, hasta finalmente Black Panther apoyar a Capitan America porque cree que es lo correcto y listo, siendo que hay muchos, pero muchísimos factores en juego, pero bueno, entiendo que complejizarlo más, habría sido contraproducente para el hilo principal.
June 11, 2019
I'm reading this event according to the official Marvel Civil War reading recommendation list as seen on their website here:
https://www.marvel.com/comics/discove...
This collection is a diverse one. Black Panther and Storm have just gotten married, so it starts with their honeymoon. We see the two of them dive right into discussing the new developments in US domestic policy with several other countries and their leaders. It's a more political take on everything than what we have seen in other comics, which can make the pacing a bit slow at times. I like that it brings into question what other countries think of Americans and the political structure here. We also see how Iron Man and the US government uses whatever it can to make technicalities against Black Panther and Storm. It wasn't as action-packed as some of the others I've read for this event, but it answered very interesting questions.
For: fans of superheroes/comics; readers wanting the perspective from other nations during this time.
Possible red flags: characters in peril; violence; death; beheading; blood.
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This collection is a diverse one. Black Panther and Storm have just gotten married, so it starts with their honeymoon. We see the two of them dive right into discussing the new developments in US domestic policy with several other countries and their leaders. It's a more political take on everything than what we have seen in other comics, which can make the pacing a bit slow at times. I like that it brings into question what other countries think of Americans and the political structure here. We also see how Iron Man and the US government uses whatever it can to make technicalities against Black Panther and Storm. It wasn't as action-packed as some of the others I've read for this event, but it answered very interesting questions.
For: fans of superheroes/comics; readers wanting the perspective from other nations during this time.
Possible red flags: characters in peril; violence; death; beheading; blood.
May 24, 2018
Probably one of the best Civil War segments I have read. Rather then focusing on the actual events happening in the US, Black Panther highlights the perspectives of other nations on Registration, which was fascinating.
It also helps highlight some of the potential frightening possibilities registration opened up, such as the US with a super powered army.
Some of the best scenes I have read in the Civil War take place in this book, tense showdowns between Black Panther and his new wife Storm, and the White House, paranoid delusions from White House military staff, causing awful escalation of conflicts and mistrust, and mentions of the racial inequality that continues to plague the US.
A real gem in the Civil War storyline that I highly recommend.
It also helps highlight some of the potential frightening possibilities registration opened up, such as the US with a super powered army.
Some of the best scenes I have read in the Civil War take place in this book, tense showdowns between Black Panther and his new wife Storm, and the White House, paranoid delusions from White House military staff, causing awful escalation of conflicts and mistrust, and mentions of the racial inequality that continues to plague the US.
A real gem in the Civil War storyline that I highly recommend.
October 25, 2018
Profoundly mediocre graphic novel from the perspective of Black Panther and Storm during the Civil War arc. It starts off strong, with the power couple going to a series of tense diplomatic meetings, but halfway through runs out of steam and goes nowhere fast as it becomes a series of repetitive battle scenes that change little in the Marvel Universe. The artwork in the first half is beautiful and detailed, but takes a sharp nosedive in the second half, and the story in the exact middle has art that's, frankly, just plain ugly. Overall, it was interesting to get glimpses into Black Panther's life, but this graphic novel suffers from inconsistent style, precious little substance, and rather bland writing.
July 15, 2024
For those whose introduction to major Marvel (or DC) comics storylines came from watching the movie versions first, the width breath of influence and the nuances across titles isn't as impactful. I did not read Civil War in its entirety when it was first published, but I knew some of the plot. Since then, I've filled in some of the gaps, but this Black Panther collection mixed in some characters I hadn't read much about (Eternals and Inhumans, Luke Cage, Hercules, and others) and shows that this multi-title mega-story really did split up some groups and individuals. And hardly any variant covers in the gallery; wow!
April 30, 2024
Civil War remains a high point of storytelling simply because it was the most interesting idea they'd had in a long while. This glimpse into the honeymoon of Ororo and T'Challa and their diplomatic missions to Latveria, the Moon and the bottom of the sea is perfectly entertaining and a prime example of how comics in the modern era are more sophisticated than the earlier ages without sacrificing any of the wonder.
November 8, 2017
I was never very interested in Black Panther as a kid. He didn't have any cool gadgets or shoot laser beams. He was just a hand to hand guy. But I'm really digging him as an adult. He also has gadgets so that helps, but he's just overall totally badass. Looking forward to reading more and to the movie.
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