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Black Panther (2016) (Single Issues)
Black Panther (2016-2018) #8
VOYAGE INTO THE DJALIA T'Challa's research and technology takes him to a place that not even THE CREW can follow: THE DJALIA, Wakanda's collective memory. Just getting there was hard, but finding SHURI across their nation's past, present and future might turn out to be impossible. Even so, the strain on his Soul-Stalker abilities might tear him apart before he gets very far…
25 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2016
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
286 books17.3k followersTa-Nehisi Coates is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Between the World and Me, a finalist for the National Book Award. A MacArthur "Genius Grant" fellow, Coates has received the National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, and the George Polk Award for his Atlantic cover story "The Case for Reparations." He lives in New York with his wife and son.
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December 2, 2016
10 Things I Liked About Black Panther #8
1. The Crew! I want the Crew to stay. I want to listen to Luke Cage complain about the costs of daycare and for T'Challa to have actual friends. I love the fact that Misty Knight was invited purely because Luke had told T'Challa all about her.
2. T'Challa's compliments to Eden, Luke, and Misty. Squad goals moment! But what really got me was what T'Challa said to Ororo: "Ororo, I asked you to come because you are my best friend, and because..." "Because some things, my king, are easier to annual than others." Sexual tension award goes to these two as Luke and Misty try to pretend like they're not eavesdropping.
3. T'Challa and Eden's bro chat! Eden's backstory was sad; I just wanted to give him a hug. He's just so nice, and he's willing to help T'Challa save his sister.
4. T'Challa's confession about what happened with his sister Shuri. "Her country crumbling to dust, and with broken men all around, Queen Shuri went off to her doom. I could have gone with her. But someone had to fight and someone had to live. And after we parted, I wondered- still wonder- how a man walks away and leaves his only sister to die." Also, the sad explanation of the Living Death.
5. T'Challa's determination to save his sister even if it costs him his country. "I know the danger. I know we may not come back, and in so doing, doom a nation. I would give my life for my nation. But I will not give the life of my sister. I will not, yet again, be parted from my own blood."
6. The story of Queen Sologon! She's kickass and strong, and I love it. I love how strong the women of Wakanda are in all the mythology Coates has set up I'm this book. Also, the fact that she led the men into battle themselves when they were to scared to go made my feminist heart squeal in joy.
7. This quote: "These were the injuries, among any others, that Sologon- the so-called Buffalo Woman- was made to carry. But every dart endured, every torture tolerated, tempered her. Sologon grew strong. Ruthless. Hard."
8. "I wonder if this is it. If I have finally flown too far from home. I think of Ramonda and Ororo. Zuri and W'Kabi. Father and S'yan. But above all, I think of you. and I think of dying out here, of drifting out here, in search of but far away from you."
9. "And I remember that I have come to bring you back, in the full ambition that it is you who will bring all of us back. What have you discovered here, Shuri?"
10.
1. The Crew! I want the Crew to stay. I want to listen to Luke Cage complain about the costs of daycare and for T'Challa to have actual friends. I love the fact that Misty Knight was invited purely because Luke had told T'Challa all about her.
2. T'Challa's compliments to Eden, Luke, and Misty. Squad goals moment! But what really got me was what T'Challa said to Ororo: "Ororo, I asked you to come because you are my best friend, and because..." "Because some things, my king, are easier to annual than others." Sexual tension award goes to these two as Luke and Misty try to pretend like they're not eavesdropping.
3. T'Challa and Eden's bro chat! Eden's backstory was sad; I just wanted to give him a hug. He's just so nice, and he's willing to help T'Challa save his sister.
4. T'Challa's confession about what happened with his sister Shuri. "Her country crumbling to dust, and with broken men all around, Queen Shuri went off to her doom. I could have gone with her. But someone had to fight and someone had to live. And after we parted, I wondered- still wonder- how a man walks away and leaves his only sister to die." Also, the sad explanation of the Living Death.
5. T'Challa's determination to save his sister even if it costs him his country. "I know the danger. I know we may not come back, and in so doing, doom a nation. I would give my life for my nation. But I will not give the life of my sister. I will not, yet again, be parted from my own blood."
6. The story of Queen Sologon! She's kickass and strong, and I love it. I love how strong the women of Wakanda are in all the mythology Coates has set up I'm this book. Also, the fact that she led the men into battle themselves when they were to scared to go made my feminist heart squeal in joy.
7. This quote: "These were the injuries, among any others, that Sologon- the so-called Buffalo Woman- was made to carry. But every dart endured, every torture tolerated, tempered her. Sologon grew strong. Ruthless. Hard."
8. "I wonder if this is it. If I have finally flown too far from home. I think of Ramonda and Ororo. Zuri and W'Kabi. Father and S'yan. But above all, I think of you. and I think of dying out here, of drifting out here, in search of but far away from you."
9. "And I remember that I have come to bring you back, in the full ambition that it is you who will bring all of us back. What have you discovered here, Shuri?"
10.
January 2, 2017
Things are moving at a faster clip, making me appreciate all the character work from earlier issues even more. I've been anxious to see worlds and individuals collide and it's happening.
November 8, 2020
Shurri returns.
Good color artwork. One of three hundred comics marvel gave out on national read a book day, Sept six. This would be easier to review if it was 32 pages. Shurri is being reminded of magical powers Wakandans once possessed. T'challa must find Shurri, the Crew goes home.
Good color artwork. One of three hundred comics marvel gave out on national read a book day, Sept six. This would be easier to review if it was 32 pages. Shurri is being reminded of magical powers Wakandans once possessed. T'challa must find Shurri, the Crew goes home.
December 5, 2017
Shuri finally comes back from the dead-ish. Does she have new powers? I guess. She definitely has a costume.
I'm still basically rooting for the people to overthrow the monarchy because then at least something would happen in this series.
I'm still basically rooting for the people to overthrow the monarchy because then at least something would happen in this series.
November 29, 2017
always good
September 17, 2020
Good Read
Things are moving at a faster pace and making me like all the characters from the previous issues. Still enjoying the artwork and the storyline. Good job Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Things are moving at a faster pace and making me like all the characters from the previous issues. Still enjoying the artwork and the storyline. Good job Ta-Nehisi Coates.
September 25, 2021
Shuri is back, but I expected that to happen anyway.
May 1, 2022
Phenomenal conclusion to Shuri’s arc in the memory plain.
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August 27, 2025
Very cool Wakanda lore in this issue. Shuri seems to have received some cool lorekeeper powers too. I'm excited for what's to come!
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