Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Oct 2016 · Black Panther Issue #1 · Marvel Entertainment

About this ebook

Collects Black Panther (2016) #1-4, Fantastic Four (1961) #52. A new era begins for the Black Panther! MacArthur Genius and National Book Award-winning writer Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me) takes the helm, confronting T’Challa with a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda that will make leading the African nation tougher than ever before. When a superhuman terrorist group calling itself The People sparks a violent uprising, the land famed for its incredible technology and proud warrior traditions will be thrown into turmoil. As suicide bombers terrorize the population, T’Challa struggles to unite his citizens, and a familiar villain steps out of the shadows. If Wakanda is to survive, it must adapt — but can its monarch, one in a long line of Black Panthers, survive the necessary change? Heavy lies the head that wears the cowl!

Ratings and reviews

Ta-Nehisi Coates was new to writing comic books at this point, and it showed. Whatever he lacked in understanding of the medium was made up for by excellent science fiction writing. Like the old SciFi channel ads used to say, what marks great science fiction is the "What if?" question. Coates gives your brain plenty of big ideas to chew on long after you've put the book down, and that's exactly what great SciFi stories should do. If you loved the movie, Coates was definitely an influence.

I don't think this 'writer' understands comic books by the way this reads, reads like a political activist doing a hack job, if you hate pale people you'll love it but hate doesn't beat hate it breeds it, sad and insulting.

This provides a very unique perspective on Wakanda as a country striving to realign itself to what it values. It is a love story and a struggle where Black Panther actually plays supporting character to the work as a whole