Jungle Action to this day is still my favorite BP run. Don Mcgregor really fleshed out Wakanda and T'challa's supporting cast while also introducing some cool villains
Ta-Nehisi Coates to write Black Panther comic for Marvel
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Birnin Zana
Honorary Wakandan
Hoe ass Marvel let the Essential Black Panther (which no comic book store in my area had when it drop or knew about it release) and the Masterwork Black Panther go out of print
In the book Marvel Comics the untold story, it mentions some of the shyt Don had to deal with when writing Panthers Rage
Well damn
They low key throwing it to the bushes.
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Veteran
Makes no senseWell damn
They low key throwing it to the bushes.
It went out of print quick because there wasn't a high demand for it back then
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Veteran
They barely promoted it. Most people didn't even know it was out. I heard jungle action isnt even on Marvel Unlimited.
Majestyx
Duck Season
now they need to stop with the bullshyt and let ron wimberly do blade
Marvel never promotes tpbs and hardcovers unless its an OGN. Things go out of print all the time.
A lot of comic runs aren't on Marvel Unlimited
Ta-Nehisi Coates
3:04 PM
Conceptualizing The Black Panther
Black Panther concept art (Brian Stelfreeze)
A few months ago, I was fortunate enough to be contracted to work on Marvel’sBlack Panther. I didn’t want to say too much before I got started, but now, with a few scripts in, having gotten comfortable with my editors, and having been blown away by Brian Stelfreeze’s art ,(early sketches of which you see here) I’m feeling a little better. With that in mind, my hope is, from time to time, to update you guys on the process of making the thing.
I guess I should start by saying I’ve never done this before. I expect that there will be stumbles and screw-ups on my part. My nightmare basically involves this turning into some sort of stunt or vanity project. I did not take this on to look pretty, or add a line to my CV. I took it on for the same reason I take on new stories—to grow intellectually and artistically. In this case it’s another genre—fictional, serial story-telling—one a good distance away from journalism, memoir and essays.
Still I find myself falling back on old principles. I’m a writer who really values organization. I value it even more when saddled with the relatively high probability of failure. In that regard, my basic approach has been as follows: 1.) Read a ton of back issues and try to think about what I find interesting (Ramonda) and what I find less interessting (M’Baku.) 2.) Get a detailed outline done of all the issues I was contracted to write. 3.) Write those scripts early in order to give Brian, and my editors, a chance to tell me what I am doing wrong. 4.) Revise the outline regularly, as events (and finished scripts) dictate a need to change. That has been the plan. Having a plan doesn’t guarantee success. But not having a plan probably guarantees failure.
The Panther in action (Brian Stelfreeze)
One thing I did not count on was the extent to which the art would shape the story. Brian’s thoughts on T’Challa, and his supporting cast, have been invaluable. You can see the fruits of collaboration in the image above. After talking back and forth we came up with some new ideas for how T’Challa’s famed Vibranium-weave suit might work—in this case, absorbing kinetic energy and allowing him to fire that energy back out in short energy bursts. “Energy bursts” almost gets it wrong--think “force-push” not “optic blast.” All the old powers are there—enhanced senses, agility, peak-human strength etc. But this idea (and others) really came out of Brian’s thoughts—not just on the suit—but on the properties of Vibranium itself.
Writing, for me, is a lonely exercise. I pitch an idea to my editors and then I disappear for awhile. There a few regular check-ins, but generally the next thing they see from me is a draft. Black Panther has been different. There’s a lot more collaboration and conversation. Barely three days go by in which I don’t talk to Brian or my editor, Wilson Moss.
I’ll have more to say about that process as the days go on. For now, enjoy some of Brian’s (awesome) concept art. I’ve seen some of his penciled pages already. They’re glorious. I’m trying to keep up.
filial_piety
Banned
I'm a comic head...and this and BP and Miles Morales are taking over the Marvel U
Yo the Stelfreeze/ coates combo will be good.
Apollo Kid
Veteran
This drops in April right?
I'm ready
