The three issues in this volume that are by Okorafor and Araújo are excellent, and I wish the duo had had more issues to play with. Unfortunately, two of the six issues are by different writer/artist teams and are far below the quality of the Okorafor/Araújo issues. Also included is a fantastic one-shot that Okorafor did with artist Tana Ford about Ngozi (Okorafor and Ford also worked together on the excellent and underrated LaGuardia).In other words, this volume is a mixed bag of both very good...

I'm not one for graphic novels but I enjoyed this one. Okafor is interesting. As far as comic books go, I enjoyed most of the stories. This was mostly pure action. I enjoyed the last story the most about the interim Black Panther visiting Nigeria. Overall a fun romp. I'm baffled by the low rating, but I'm not the target audience.4 StarsRead on kindle

Three different stories, three different artist teams. Five stars for the first story by Nnedi Okarafor and André Lima Araújo, which I thought was really good, imaginitive, humorous, dialogue-short and with some really good art by André, which is one of the artists I'd like to see attached to one of Marvel's big league series. The other stories were also cool indie reads, but unrelated and far more generic, three stars for both of them.

Actual review: 3.5Although decent, the stakes weren't high enough for me to make this series interesting. I enjoyed the artwork, but the story lacked something big. Everything was solved pretty quickly.

It seems like Black Panther has been super-serious and dull for quite a while now (at least since the end of the Christopher Priest run). It's nice to come across a quirky take on the character that allows for some humor.

Three unrelated Black Panther tales set in Wakanda. These were a lot more action oriented and fun than the current Ta-Nahisi Coates run. No philosophical treatises here. I did like how the stories explored how Wakandans view their king and how they wanted to be governed while still delivering interesting stories. The final issue featuring some girl who was a Black Panther / Venom hybrid seemed to come out of left field.

Nnedi Okorafor's take on T'challa suffers from the usual problem when a prose writer first comes to comics – a certain stiffness, a certain tendency to repetition or duplication of efforts – as well as my problem with, TBH, most versions of the Panther which aren't Priest's: I like T'challa best as the guy who's too smart to even be the smartest guy in the room, because he left the room before the issue arose. Whereas here, as in the film, he's largely reacting to problems that he didn't see com...

Three unconnected Black Panther tales, the best by far being Nnedi Okorafor's quick story of Black Panther conquering a purple monster from the hinterlands. I appreciated that Okorafor told a full, fast-paced story that didn't rely on endless philosophizing and dialogue like Ta-Nehisi Coate's main series. The other two tales were inconsequential, particularly the one involving some random Black Panther/Venom hybrid. I felt quite lost there.

Wakanda is viewed as a utopia with enough resources of all. Nnedi Okorafor peels back the curtain to gift us with stories that challenge that perspective. What if the real danger to Wakanda came from within? What if Wakanda’s benevolence was really selfishness? I don’t normally read Black Panther comics, so no need to worry you will get lost. If you have seen the movie you’ll be able to follow along. I read this because Okorafor wrote it and eagerly await her future contributions to the Marvel u...

First and last foray into the Black Panther universe. I was looking for something interesting and smart, this ain't it. I am crushed. Thought it was gonna be awesome, I mean it's Hugo nominated! The art work is okay. Nothing remotely new tho.

I really like the way that Okorafor writes Wakanda. This collection of three comic singles was great, probably my favorite of the Black Panther universe, with the Shiri ongoing series (also by Okorafor) being a very close second. "Blackout", "The Sacrifice", and "Obinna's Folly" make up the first section, and were my favorites. The last story "Under the Bridge" had an interesting Venom mashup.

Great addition, I’m sureI say, “I’m sure” because I have not read very widely within Marvel comics, but from reading the background info, it seems like there needed to be more. That said, there were a lot of gaps. I’m not sure how any of these stories fit in with the Marvel Universe movies, if they do at all. There’s literally no tie in at all. They are still good stories that I enjoyed. I am just aware of my ignorance. And who is this Ngozi who is interim Black Panther. What happened to T’Chall...

I don't know why, I love the Marvel film, but I have found all the Black Panther graphic novels I've tried so far really, really dull and I think this is officially me giving up on this character. (Will still try Okorafor's Shuri though as she was awesome in the film and they can't have made her dull for the comic?)

The description of this TPB is misleading. Nnedi Okorafor only wrote half of the stories in this trade. If okorafor had wrotten the entire trade I would hahve given this a high rating.Because Okorafor does something that is rarely done with T'Challa nowadays. A little humor and humility is added to the charcater. That doesn't mean Christopher Priest's version doesn't remain my favorite. it is that Okorafor's firs in much better than Coates, Hudlin etc. A quick light hearted read, especially the

"In my younger days I had more time. Now there is just the crown - and the crown is heavy. The crown is also strong - and there is only one." - King T'Challa, dignified and direct as usualThree brief and unrelated action-oriented tales (tails? ha-ha) featured in this edition. In the opener Black Panther investigates a sudden mysterious and possibly supernatural threat affecting his beloved Wakanda. The middle section 'Keeps Your Friends Close' - my favorite, and stylishly reminiscent of this yea...

I liked this ALOT. Art work is awesome. Much prefer Nnedi writing Black Panther than Ta-Nehisi Coates. Nnedi is an Igbo, a Nigerian ethnic group that is unique since the Igbos never had a centralized government or royalty. She tried to inject this in the worldbuilding of Wakanda and it worked out really well. I liked how T'Challa reflected that there were different types of freedom in his kingdom, including even an anarchic community. And the idea of a sentient vibranium is fantastic.This editio...

This was interesting. The first 5 issues, about Black Panther in Wakanda were ok, even though the two issues not written by Nnedi Okorafor were significantly less strong. The stories were just too short and everything wrapped up quickly enough that the stakes didn't get particularly high, and the distance that Okorafor felt about writing about a monarch, which she references in her letter at the end does come through a bit, which makes this Black Panther a bit less celebratory, which might be le...

I love Ta Nehisi Coates as writer and thinker but had to abandon his Black Panther run; it wasn’t great comics. All talk and philosophy, and not action, or too much set-up for action that I might have seen if I had been patient for it. Okorafor, the author of Binti and Akata Witch, making her comics debut, wisely listened to future readers via social media about their hopes for her run; they hoped to see more action to ground the ideas, and not the other way around (as Coates had done). They als...

(read as single issues)A bit of an odd mini-series--the issues not written by Nnedi don't seem to fit in? Still, overall a fun read and I can't wait for Nnedi's Shuri comic!

I'm not sure what the point of this book was, to be honest. It featured three stories, all connected to Wakanda and the Black Panther, all of which would have fit into the 'World of Wakanda' book. It's like they relaunched 'World of Wakanda' with a new title and hoped nobody would notice.It didn't help that in the two stories featuring T'Challa he seemed out-of-character to me; much closer to the slightly-out-of-his-depth movie version than the hyper-intelligent-super-competent comicbook version...