We Gonna Talk About Ta-Nehisi Coates Adding To The Mythos of Marvel’s Black Golden Age Heroes or Nah?

“Top 5 alive and I only got 2 out! School ya on your history, I tell ya what you ’bout”- Lupe Fiasco As it stands now it’s only been a year since Ta-Naheisi Coates, and Brian Stelfreeze, hopped on Black Panther. We done seen some shit we thought we wasn’t ever gonna see in Wakanda. We done got civil unrest, a revolt, a revolution, and resolution within the formation of a government. We’re entering a new chapter dealing with the gods of Wakanda now, but can we just take a step back and look around, look around at how lucky we are to be apart of this fandom right now? To say Coates and Stelfreeze went and put T’Challa on the map would be an understatement. This is Coates’s first crack at comics; he is only one year in and together with Stelfreeze he’s done god-tier level world-building with the history of Wakanda as we know it. Sheeeeeit, as we THOUGHT we knew it. We’ve ain’t had maps this in depth of the country, the in-depth divisions of Wakanda, how they got their names, the previous owners of certain portions of land, plus a Shuri’s journey through the origin of the most advanced civilization on the face of the Earth ever.

We got Okyo and Anyo of the Dora Milaje breaking off on their own standing and against the throne because “No one man should have all that power”. These are characters that are now just as much of a staple of Wakanda as T’Challa, Shuri. Ta-Nahesi Coates went and passed the sticks to his writers/artist and them Roxanne Gay to develop them even more? More …