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A review by wanderlustlover
Black Panther: Long Live the King by Aaron Covington, Nnedi Okorafor
2.0
Summer 2019 (Hugo Award Nominee 2019 - Graphic Novel);
This one was just a bit too painful in a lot of places.
The jump-skip of scenes between two and three was hard to figure out we were at all still in the same story. The jump skin from three-four being its own story, and five returning us the mystery in 1-2 was just even more disjointing. Then, that part was wrapped up in one issue and there's a singular standalone that has nothing do with Black Panther, himself, but is instead a random, sudden Black Panther interim character who appears and has their own story without ever getting an introduction. Which left this whole graphic novel feeling like a hodgepodge collected in an out of order sequence with non-related stories.
The connections between character are brief and barely touched upon, so I don't feel like (without relying on other comics or the movies) that there was much I could speak of there. I was expecting so much from this and from know it was Nnedi Okorafor (who is, also, nominated for one of the Hugo Novella's as well), but realizing they only wrote a small section while being named the author on this main nomination makes me feel weird about it, too.
This one was just a bit too painful in a lot of places.
The jump-skip of scenes between two and three was hard to figure out we were at all still in the same story. The jump skin from three-four being its own story, and five returning us the mystery in 1-2 was just even more disjointing. Then, that part was wrapped up in one issue and there's a singular standalone that has nothing do with Black Panther, himself, but is instead a random, sudden Black Panther interim character who appears and has their own story without ever getting an introduction. Which left this whole graphic novel feeling like a hodgepodge collected in an out of order sequence with non-related stories.
The connections between character are brief and barely touched upon, so I don't feel like (without relying on other comics or the movies) that there was much I could speak of there. I was expecting so much from this and from know it was Nnedi Okorafor (who is, also, nominated for one of the Hugo Novella's as well), but realizing they only wrote a small section while being named the author on this main nomination makes me feel weird about it, too.