Hard to follow with the plot jumping around so much and too many characters. The Black Panther Universe is a weird one indeed.

Twenty years on, with several of its concepts now firmly lodged in pop culture via a hit film, how does Priest's Black Panther run read? Very well, I think. Priest's storytelling style - proudly non-linear, with big blocks of prose narration - was unique in 1998 and remains highly distinctive; the only mainstream writer I can think of who's this prosy is Jonathan Hickman, and Priest is way less dry. The style lets him tell two kinds of story at once - a political thriller and a comical romp, wit...

Excellent read. I'll get the bad out of the way first: the art. The art over the first major arc is (to me) brilliant because it's done in a realistic fashion with Panther and the Milaje appearing almost as if they'd stepped off a movie screen. Then the artist is changed and it becomes more of a traditional, muscle-saturated cartoon-like depiction. Which is okay: art is very subjective. The writing is truly the strength of this book. Priest's depiction and storytelling must be taken in context.

The Client (1-5). A brilliant work, ever bit as great as Priest's contemporary work on Quantum & Woody, and if anything, this is the comic that has more depth to it. The storytelling is phenomenal, with a fun first-person narrative that totally screws with chronology (and convention). Priest also does a great job of making the Black Panther an interesting character with many facets to his personality. [10/10]Kraven & The Avengers (6-8). This arc starts off a little slow. As Ross tells another ti...

3.5 stars. Finally! What a mammoth book to read. I got this on sale and I thought to myself "I've never read a black panther book before, but absolutely love the character in all the avenger comics and everything else he appears in. He's badass! Must give this a go!"So I didn't hype this up to myself as I've never read anything by the author and had no idea what to expect. I'm glad this was written by a black writer, it gives the character and the story a more accurate perspective. It's also ver...

The one thing I did not expect Black Panther to be was funny. But Priest has managed to instill a lot of humor in this title, mostly in the form of Ross, the comedic foil and token white man in the orbit of Black Panther.There's a lot of comics here - 16 issues at least, over 350 pages. It doesn't start things fresh - there are previous events that are alluded to, but readers are given enough detail to get by without having read them. I was a little thrown on the timing - the copyright date on s...

I knew going into this why Priest used Ross as the POV character, and it seemed like a perfectly fine idea, but in practice I really wasn't into it.At one point fairly early on I nearly noped out, ready to declare that Priest just wasn't for me (I hadn't been particularly taken with Quantum and Woody, but I'd hoped Black Panther would be better).I didn't mind the jumping around in the story, but I'm totally down with the premise of superhero comics, so having the narrator being ... the way he wa...

I bought this one (thankfully on sale, heavily marked down) three and a half months ago and I’ve since managed to read 202 pages out of 383. That’s after numerous times of stop-start reading, forcing myself on, and I’ve only just now passed the halfway mark! This is a Marvel comic, not War and fucking Peace and yet I’ve read 600 page novels in shorter timeframes! Well, no more - I give up here and won’t torture myself with the remaining 180 pages of this absolute rubbish. I have no clue why but

A shifty saga and an unusual choice of narration, a fairly tame and exciting story that really gets hairy along the way. B (75%/Good)

Opinions appear pretty divided on this one, so I'd say it's an acquired taste. The 'Pulp Fiction'-style narrative - backwards, forwards, sideways, etc - will be off-putting to some. I thought it was an enjoyable - and original - collection of issues. The crazy story-line was mostly just a lot of fun. Our dignified badass of a hero wades through the irreverent humor, action scenes, and energetic cast of characters (this was almost more of an ensemble piece) with aplomb.

This disappointed me a little. I'd heard a lot of good things about Priests Black Panther run, and decided to give it a read since Black Panther is the movie break out character of the year. But it feels like he's barely in it. Most of the book is told, and not really all that well, through the perspective of his attaché Everett K Ross. The way he tells it doesn't make much sense (which I think I was a little intentional, but still). The artwork isn't all that great in most of the book. It seems...

Christopher Priest's vaunted run on Black Panther is all over the place, as are the reviews for this first volume, which is something I entirely understand as my own response to the book went careening from one end of the spectrum to the other, first thinking it was just about the best damn thing I'd read from Marvel in years and then cursing Priest for driving his story into the ground with some really stupid choices on his part as the author, undermining the promise he began with. About halfwa...

Great artwork, but a far too confusing story. I felt like I was watching a movie dubbed in a different language.

The ultra-serious Black Panther comes to America to settle a few things, with the Whitest White Guy Ever at his side. The content is torn between the serious plot and the White Guy's dorky retelling. This just hit my sweet spot, I think.

This book was entertaining, but in the way that a mindless Michael Bay film is entertaining. There wasn't any big message, just a lot of panels filled with over-the-top fights, elaborate traps, superstar cameos, and occasional romance. While reading it, I found myself pulled into the story and wanting to continue, but once I stepped away it was hard to come back.Something I didn't like about the issues selected as part of this Black Panther anthology: the majority of the stories were told from t...

Lately, when comic book fans talk about the Black Panther, they often reference the Christopher Priest run. Having read both this and the Ta-Nehisi Coates run, I have to assume it read better in the early 2000's.I'm not an art snob when it comes to comics, but this book made me realize I still have a certain set of expectations. I expect comic art to communicate motion and action clearly, and to have good acting and expressions on characters who are clearly recognizable. While I will give Mark T...

Warning, this is not for everyone. The story is told from the point of view of an unreliable narrator, a U.S. attache assigned to the Black Panther while he's in the states. Everett Ross has a sarcastic wit and is incapable of telling a story straight through from beginning to end. He's retelling the events of the first year's worth of comics in a Pulp Fiction like manner. You rarely see the Black Panther's thoughts, you just see him look brilliant when his plans bear fruition at the end of each...

Alright. I didn't quite love-love everything about this, but it had a pretty decent fun factor to it. To me, the 1st volume (The Client) started out strong, but as everything progressed...? Meh, it just petered out.The biggest problem (for me) was that due to the wonky way the story was told, I kept thinking I had missed an important plot point or accidentally skipped an issue somehow. Government liaison Everett K. Ross is the narrator of the story, and he has a backward/scatty way of telling yo...

Amazon prime made this possible. Read in 24 hours. Man of honor like Captain America, with much more responsibility on his shoulders. Achebe, highly entertaining. More Achebe!Luke Cage was in here. Netflix show does him more justice with character. Danny Rand was in here too. Using Tae bo...

It's more of a 3.5 but I'ma score it a 4 because it's a lot of fun even at it's worst. This is the best run on BP you can read at this point. They take the character seriously, he's well crafted, great supporting cast, and you see multiple sides to him. I really loved the art too, feeling fresh at all times, and giving us some great action scenes with our favorite Wakanda. Overall if you want to know more about the Black Panther, check this run out, you won't be disappointed.