Marvel’s New Black Panther Comic Embraces the Movie In the Right Way

Marvel’s Fresh Start relaunch has brought about a number of big changes for popular heroes, but perhaps no hero’s world has changed as radically as Black Panther’s. The recent Black Panther #1 introduced a drastically different status quo, one where T’Challa finds himself a prisoner who breaks out to join an interstellar resistance force. Rarely has a comic kept the same writer and yet changed so drastically from one issue to the next. But this new status quo also seems to be just the change of pace Black Panther needed, as well as giving Marvel the chance to draw in some characters and elements from the movie that otherwise wouldn’t be possible.

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