Hudlin Entertainment Forum

Marvel’s handling of T’Challa is indisputably disgraceful! It is extremely hard to believe racism is not at the core of their deconstructionist “AGENDA” making it extremely disconcerting, though sadly not unfathomable, that a Black writer would be a party to it? Ridley has sunk to an all-time low. Not only have they debased the first, most prominent Black superhero in mainstream comics, but they’ve extended both middle fingers to all of us, daring to go as far as to grossly mischaracterize Captain America ”…take this butt whuppin’” in print!

As a life-long fan of Marvel comics and aspiring writer, I mean this with every fiber of my being…f#@k Marvel, Ridley and the horse his stupid ass buffalo soldier rode in on!

No Peace,

Mont

Slow clap!!! Blows Ridley BP out of the water! 

Peace,

Mont

Waited four years for this one.



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That is on my list and if I don’t open it Christmas morning I will be ordering it that afternoon!

Peace,

Mont

Thank you Brother Ture for compiling Redjack’s thoughts! I co-sign all of it as he speaks with proper understanding of and deference for T’Challa which Marvel has shamefully abandoned. We’re I Marvel or Disney Geoffrey Thorne would be the top executive in charge of Marvel Entertainment, publishing and MCU. My only direction would be fix this ish Redjack! He sees it the same way I do.

Peace,

Mont

Thank you for all the updates Brother Ture! I will never see this film for many of the reasons you’ve iterated. Additionally, I am sick of the fascination with fatalism that these young creatives seem to revere. Fictional heroes should transcend mortality, especially when it comes to the imbalance of representation by characters who look like us. The emotional overreaction of the cast and crew that allowed them to co-sign the decision to kill off T’Challa is actually causing a schism in the Black community as those of us who find the decision untenable are being accused of everything from misogyny to infantilism to being “anti-woke” when most have only asked that they not kill off who for many of us is the first superhero we encountered that looked like us. A hero whose adventures we’ve followed for decades and hoped to see more of on the silver screen. No disrespect to Chadwick Boseman, who’s loss I mourned two years ago, T’Challa is a larger than life, iconic character who did not need to die for a third time in less than 3 MCU appearances. I believe Chadwick would feel so too from what I’ve seen and heard of his reverence for the character and the fans. What Coogler, Moore, Feige and Marvel have done is turn T’Challa into a joke who will be remembered, if at all for dying and all for their ill-conceived desire to turn Wakanda into Black Themyscira while swapping an historic Black male icon for a newly minted Mexican male idol and revenue stream. Why is their only room for one minority male monarch in the MCU? They were set to have positive Black representation for Black boys and girls to witness the power of strong male and female heroes working together, but decided instead to take the opportunity mitigate costs and eliminate a strong Black unencumbered male character, dishonoring the work Chadwick put in and snubbing their noses at true fans of T’Challa, son of T’Chaka and N’Yami, King of Wakanda.

No peace,

Mont

And in the process they are ironically undervaluing the men by their removal and reduction In this movie.

The first movie didn't resonate because of womanhood. It resonated because of black UNITY. Black men and women shining and rising together.

Exactly Ezyo, exactly! The schism that results when Black men are marginalized if not exterminated, while Black women are elevated is harmful to Black families and lineage, and deliberately so. It is a genocide by halves cultivated through vice, seduction, privilege and greed.

No peace,

Mont

I agree with that. A retelling of Priests "The Client" with some small changes (age of the Dora's for instance) would be awesome

I would also love to see CJP’s “The Client” which the MCU was perfectly set up to explore with T’Challa having opened up Wakanda to the outside world and having reason to spend time in America restoring a Wakandan spy network and investigating the new Avengers.

My change, which Hudlin wisely ignored/dropped would be to nix the inoperable brain aneurism which was the one thing I hated about Priest’s run.

My Two Cents!

Peace,

Mont

Be my guest EJ I knew you guys would get my not so sugar “Coated” meaning. I always say to each his/her own, but I can’t help hoping that BP2WF significantly underperforms at the box office even though I realize Feige profit proofed it by making Namor Hispanic and instigating Black/Brown animosity. Que sera?

Ezyo, right with you bruh.

Peace,

Mont