If you unfortunately pay attention to the digital slurry that is online discourse then you may have noticed in the past week memes about how “Black Panther is WHITE!” with a fake image of Ryan Gosling’s increasingly-botoxed face (don’t do it Ryan, age naturally!) on the MCU’s Black Panther.
Well, this is the comic from whence said nonsense originated. Marvel’s relaunch of their old Marvel Knights line with The World To Come #1, which is just a Black Panther comic.
Is it a good comic? Nope. Christopher Priest wrote it and he sucks. And Marvel seem to have done it just to get the online attention it’s getting so they suck.
The “story” jumps around pointlessly. 16 years after the world to come, 8 years before the world to come, 26 years before, etc. without ever explaining what “the world to come” is or its significance. And all that really happens is T’Challa fighting a masked opponent in Warrior Falls for most of the overlong issue until the final page reveal which is where the meme comes from.
So is Black Panther white? No. In this (probably) alternate world he seems to have an adopted son who is white and is vying for his mantle. Bo-ring.
Joe Quesada’s art is pretty decent throughout. The issue looks good but Priest’s writing is as poor as ever and his storytelling just as inept and lacking in any hook - the entire issue is all about that final page only. Because that’s all Marvel has to offer these days to get people talking about them - not the quality of their books but stupid gimmicks like this.
If this is any indication of what the world to come has to offer, then I’ve no further interest in this lacklustre series. A dreary first issue - nothing worthwhile to see here.
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