Enter the Age of N’Jadaka: Black Panther #2 Review

Writer: Ta-Nehisi Coates // Artist: Daniel Acuña // Publisher: Marvel

“Everybody needs backup.” – Nakia In Coates we trust.  The second issue of the “Intergalantic Wakandan Empire” story reads like the “Star Wars” film you wish  they made – kinetic, rebellious, and slick with a an air of mystery.  Are you craving a Nubian “Tron?” A Kemetic “Battlestar Gallactica?  As the standout series of Marvel’s “Legacy” initiative, “Black Panther #2 ” continues to make it own rules.  The current storyline follows the rise of a brain-wiped mining slave who claims the name T’Challa as he joins the ranks of the rebel forces known as the Maroons. Through the haze of his stolen memories, faint images of Ororo (Storm) beckon him to another life, driving him to fight the powers that be. Lyrical Insurrection The Maroons are deep into a raid in the Shango Array when the Wakandan empire dispatches its Masai fights to bring them down.  M’Baku and Nakia call for retreat, pulling back their forces, but T’Challa pushes forward. He pilots a Zulu fighter as if he one with the machine, outgunning and outmanoeuvring the imperial forces.  Mysteriously, he has a sensitivity unlike any other – he not flies faster than the other pilots, but can cloak his Zulu fighter at will.

The raid succeeds, even though T’Challa’s bravado almost gets him killed.  They return to their cargo the Mackandal for N’yami uncover –  the M’Kraan Crystal.  News of the attack spreads to the top ranks of the Intergalactic Empire, dra…