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Who is the Black Panther?
With the exception of Spiderman and Silver Surfer, Black Panther is one of the coolest creations to come from the minds of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee. An African King ruling in a country light years ahead of everyone else was an incredible concept. Great concept but it never went forward. Years later other writers tried their hand at Black Panther never able to capture the essence of the character. (My mind still has the image of BP being burned on a cross by the KKK etched into my mind, Thanks Mr. Don McGregor, do you think anyone black would’ve wrote something like that?)
When Christopher Priest introduced the Black Panther in 1998 he created the foundation that BP's future would be built on. (inclding the Huddlins current run)
BP was no longer a loyal, jovial team player but a King that was a master strategist always looking for angles that would benefit his nation, in most cases BP was several steps ahead of all of his opponents
Priest also understood the idea of an African ruler of an advance nation spending all of his time fighting bad guys in America’s ghettos was at best stupid, at worst insulting. Wakanda became the focal point of the series not the character. Priest's BP was not written for kids, the storyline were filled with multiple plots changing timelines and filled to the brimmed with political intrigue, in short it was as dense as an episode of HBO's The Wire. But like the Wire that is often compared to the Soprano’s and Star Trek Deep Space 9 that is compared with TNG. History will reflect on Priest run hailing it as an accomplishment along the same lines as Frank Miller's Dark Knight and Alan More's The Watcheman
Check out his trade paperbacks the Client and Enemy of the State


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