Comments on: Thoughts on the new Black Panther…

By: James

James — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:56:48 +0000

I’d prefer it be Storm. I figure I’m one of the few who likes the marriage.

By: Vichus Smith

Vichus Smith — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:19:44 +0000

Why drop it before you know what’s up? You know this is temporary, at best. For Hudlin’s writing, though, I wouldn’t blame anyone for dropping it. Hudlin’s writing just doesn’t feel foreign enough to me, not far enough removed from a culture I am used to.

By: Dalarsco

Dalarsco — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:45:41 +0000

I like this. I love T’Challa, who manages to be cool despite Hudlin’s shoddy writing, but now I can drop it and not care.

By: Vichus Smith

Vichus Smith — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:01:43 +0000

It’s not too hard to remember the female Kraven, because she’s a relatively new character.

By: sean

sean — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:14:17 +0000

I remember the female Doc Ock and the female Punisher and the female Thing, but not the female Kraven. I only remember Ron Zimmerman’s “Get Kraven”.

By: Vichus Smith

Vichus Smith — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:30:18 +0000

Oh yeah, there’s a female Kraven as well! Damn, women are taking over the Marvel U.

By: Philip A Moore

Philip A Moore — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:04:16 +0000

Why is it that Marvel thinks the only way to make a character new is to make them I girl. It happening every were with marvel mostly with villanse. why can’t the new character be male. Gender swiching doesn’t make a character interest it just feels like cheating. think about White Tiger Kraven Bulls Eye now Black Panther this getting old very fast

good day

By: Blackjak

Blackjak — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:49:40 +0000

Which is something that really pisses off people who are from Africa, or who lived there for any length of time… Over 50 separate countries… Let’s not even go into the tribal/cultural breakdowns within those…

And for Goodness sake, if you’re going to have Mandela say “Amandla!” at least spell it properly… unlike in that first issue of the series…

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:21:04 +0000

Hmmmmmm…. but in that scenario, he would have gone after a Wakandan, which Storm is not.

I think the main issue here is to consider the entire Africa a nation, which is not, either. That’s why there are plenty of separate countries with lots of differences amongst them.

By: Vichus Smith

Vichus Smith — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:06:16 +0000

Yeah, but in some families you have the pressure to marry within your creed, race, background, etc. After scouring all of Africa, I’m sure , T’challa went for Storm!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:45:49 +0000

Being Africans is really very too little in common. They’re not even from the same country.

It’s as if I had to marry an Argentinan just because I’m Latin American. It does make too little sense.

By: Vichus Smith

Vichus Smith — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:37:42 +0000

Well, part of Storm’s backstory is that she’s African, so it makes sense there.

My favorite pairing with Storm is Wolverine. He needs someone in his damn life.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:31:25 +0000

I care so little about the Black Panther, but to me, it’s obvious the new Black Panthress won’t be Storm.

I only hope Ororo can finally move on from this plot trap she’s been since someone decided she had to marry Black Panther just because they were both black.

With all of Storm’s backstory, it made so little sense. I was sure she was a Skrull, but that didn’t come to happen.

All in all, I hope she goes back where she belongs. It doesn’t suit her to be a support character.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:18:39 +0000

>>>I wish it was wilder than the typical passing of the mantle Maybe Black Pantherâ€™s been living a lie all this time, and he got a sex change?

At least that would be original. Or maybe a Cloud (from the New Defenders) or Starhawk thing. It won’t be though. It’ll be his sister.

By: Vichus Smith

Vichus Smith — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:04:52 +0000

I’m sorry for people who aren’t digging Hudlin (I don’t like him on Panther much, either) but I loved Aaron’s work on Panther. He put some umph in the book, got some good buzz on it as well. Hudlin’s writing is kinda corny to me.

I wish that the way in which we get a new, female black panther was not so obvious, but I think we’re all spot-on with who’s under that mask. Panther gets killed (only to come back later through convoluted means) and Storm, having a husband killed and still Queen of Wakanda, feels that she must put on the panther’s mask; but why would storm need a new costume? Maybe it’s one of T’Challa’s relatives under there.

I wish it was wilder than the typical passing of the mantle Maybe Black Panther’s been living a lie all this time, and he got a sex change?

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:41:42 +0000

>>>But for the love of God, do NOT resurrect his Leopard alias, that just sucked.

T’Challa was named “The Black Leopard” for such a short time, I’m not sure it even counts. It was an attempt to distance the character from the radical Black Panther organization, to which he was never really linked to begin with.

Now his Gathering counterpart: “The Coal Tiger” …..don’t get me started.

By: Graeme White

Graeme White — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:30:05 +0000

Yeah, but Black Panther has so much potential as a MAJOR character, it’s just being ignored. I say put him back in the Avengers.

But for the love of God, do NOT resurrect his Leopard alias, that just sucked.

By: Joe S. Walker

Joe S. Walker — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:12:14 +0000

They might as well put up a neon sign saying WE’VE GOT NO IDEA WHAT TO DO WITH THIS MINOR CHARACTER.

By: Bright-Raven

Bright-Raven — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:58:17 +0000

The idea of marrying Ororo and T’Challa was not a bad idea, it was just twenty to twenty two years late. If it was to be done it should have been done back when Ororo had been depowered and went back to Africa to find herself. It would have lent itself to a way to have Ororo written out of the X-Men series but remain a recurring friend character in UNCANNY, and would have lent some more story potentials to the BP character to continue it from the 1988 (IIRC) minisieries that Peter Gilis and Denys Cowan did.

Today, however, as Brian Cronin points out, having Storm become BP does nothing for her character now since she has had her powers back for years. Having T’Challa die would be a weak story no matter how well executed, and even with his death and a female Panther taking the mantle… I don’t know as I don’t read the book, but I would think Ororo as Queen by marriage would still hold some level of power in the Wakandan Court. As a result, this whole thing sounds just a bit convoluted to me.

As for the recent trend of “feminizing” male characters… you mean like She-Hulk, Spider-Woman, the Rita DeMara version of Yellowjacket, Yolanda Montez taking Ted Grant’s place as Wildcat, and other various examples that were common between 1979-1986? It’s just another round of the current generation recycling what the past generation of writers did already.

But then, that seems to be all today’s writers do. *sad*

By: MRW

MRW — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:03:31 +0000

Maybe it’s just because I don’t really care about this marriage, but would it really be that big a deal for Storm and the Black Panther to get divorced? I don’t think the editorial objection to doing that with Spidey and MJ (it would make him seem too old!) applies at all in this case. He’s the ruler of his country, she has been a key member and frequent leader of the X-Men, I think there’s plenty that logically would cause tensions for them and make a breakup understandable.