Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther Run Is Almost Here and Looks Amazing

Beyonce dropped Formation. Melissa Harris-Perry dropped the mic on MSNBC at the stroke of fuck-this-shit o’clock. Kendrick Lamar dropped an ambush album after literally setting the stage on fire while krump dancing in pan-African colors at the Grammys, and the entirety of Chicago raised their wands to the sky and vanquished the Dark Mark left by Donald Trump like Hogwarts standing up to Voldemort. Let’s face it: all we need now is reparations, a Tribe Called Quest reunion and Neil Degrasse Tyson for President and it’s basically assured that we’ll achieve peak blackness before summer. In comes National Book Award winning correspondent for The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between The World And Me, dropping a Black Panther comic book.

Honestly, I could stop right there and you could get the gist of how big this is for blerd fandom, but my editor would kick my door down and hit me with some form of pro wrestling move for handing in a seven-sentence submission, so I’ll continue. It’s been a solid four years since we got a Black Panther solo comic. The Marvel Universe has seen world ending incursions, a Black Captain America, the Red Skull turning good guys evil with Charles Xavier’s brain and a Howard the Duck solo comic (you read that right), but nothing for Marvel’s first Black superhero, king of the technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda. Fortunately, at a time when a savvy, progressive audience is thirsty for quality representation for people of color, Co…