Modern comics tend to focus on shorter, four-to-six issue story arcs. The ever-present wariness about the mercurial taste of readers, accessibility to potential newbies, as well as the fact each title will be collected and sold as trades two or three times a year shapes how stories are told. Yet Ta-Nehisi Coates has embraced a longer form of storytelling, with great success, since taking over Black Panther. His first “season” (as he describes it) was “A Nation Under Our Feet,” a yearlong story exploring the nature of people and politics, what it means to rule and who has the right to do so. His second season, “Avengers Of The New World,” is another thoughtful, multifaceted yearlong story. In it Coates eloquently and gracefully depicts the struggle of faith when God is silent. Continue reading
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