OK, so I read the latest issues (Illegally downloaded it because fukk giving Coates any of my money) and I can honestly say it's the best issue so far. There's no action at all (shocking I know) but it's not filled with continually T'Challa bashing with no retort.
It's still obvious that T'Challa is the character Coates is least interested in handling, everybody else gets more attention and care during this issue. Often it feels like T'Challa is just giving exposition rather than talking like a normal person and much of what he says is still "I suck at being king, I'm a failure".
The big problems I have with this issue is that Coates wasted a ton of time putting something in place....that was already in place. Basically T'Challa is still king but there's a tribal council made up of the heads of various tribes in Wakanda.......Which is something that already fukking existed!!!
The whole thing with Aneka was fukking weak. Given what we know it still makes no fukking sense for her to be so upset with T'Challa. We never got any real sense of what everyday Wakandans felt about the Royal Family, it's just a bunch of people with personal beefs deciding what's best for everyone under he guise of "revolution".
Coates still has T'Challa on that "I don't want to be King" bullshyt and it still rings hollow as fukk. He's also failed completely at establishing a genuine friendship between Manifold and T'Challa. Manifold is just there to be a fukking Taxi, and he's involved in shyt he really shouldn't be, he's just there because Coates liked the character.
So yeah, best issue of the run by far but it in no way justifies all the bullshyt that came before it. It's not a good enough final issue to give anything that came before a pass.