This is a piece I’ve wanted to write for a long time. I’ve tried before but could never find the right words. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Brian Stelfreeze and Laura Martin’s Black Panther was one of the titles I was most excited by as I returned to reading comics in 2015. While the Black Panther was only ever a guest star in the comics I read in my youth, Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of my favorite contemporary authors. I follow his work in The Atlantic and have read his memoir Between The World and Me several times. An author I so respect coming to a medium I’ve loved since before I could read was almost too good to be true! The results proved even better than I’d imagined. The pages of Coates, Stelfreeze, and Martin’s Black Panther held a story with an elegance unlike any I’d found in a comic book before. Continue reading
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