again. stfu and let them cook. ole l. ron hubbard-ass nikka.
if u actually read avengers (as opposed to just bytching about "movie with obligatory black character") u already know black panther is playing a major role in the storyline leading up to marvel's big 2015 event. he's been a major player on the avengers side since avengers vs. x-men, when namor got a piece of the phoenix force, went to wakanda and crushed the buildings.
it's sound business to align the books with the flicks. easy entry points. and i guarantee the current situations with thor and cap will be resolved by the time avengers 2 hits. either that, or the current storyline that has falcon in the cap mantle will be integrated into the movie-verse (possible, since they're using the civil war storyline ending with cap's "death"). restore the status quo, get everyone talking about the characters, and oh yeah. avengers 2 bytches.
so what's it say that t'challa is being featured so prominently in the avengers books, instead of being relegated to a solo book history has shown ppl dont support? it means they're waiting for a storyline/angle that will set up his own shine down the road. same way they did with storm, young cyclops, rockett racc00n, etc etc etc. it took YEARS of guardians of the galaxy storylines (and variations of the GotG team) before they even got an A-list writer/artist, never mind a flick. are the parallels that hard to trace?
whether u think they have a plan is irrelevant. their success in world-building makes ur opinion worth less than the dirt between the cracks of my jordans. when the time is right, we'll get panther. until then, we got rhodey AND (possibly) sam ready to pop them thangs on ultron's bytch ass. how bout u go BUY some black panther books while we wait and really help drive demand for the character.
the way some of yall bytch about t'challa... ud think he was a best-seller.