The supposed Wakanda Forever social movement is a concept with merit and requires handling by a writer capable of expressing its complications. One such detail is crediting T'Challa the Black Panther with starting or inspiring such a movement to offer "disillusioned Americans emigrants" aka so called Black Americans (in actuality Afrakans of USA citizenship) a chance to live as a free and empowered people. I find hard to accept that Crossbones would call Sam Captain America, not to mention how Sam defeated him.
Sam Wilson aka Black Cap isn't a bad read at all, in and of itself. the interjection of T'Challa the Black Panther's Wakanda and it people may become problematic. Scale wise Wakanda is way out of Sam's league or at least it should be if written to potential. White Wolf does what he does well enough. Sam gets to shine after all it is his book though i did have enough of how Sam kept referencing Shuri though. T'Challa the Black Panther's entrance was great though I do dread the upcoming outcome of his and Sam's fight.
I remain unfazed by Sam adopting Steve's identity as Captain America. I preferred Sam as the Falcon and think that an all black low level vibranium laced winged suit with some tech and gadgets gifted him by T'Challa the Black Panther would have sufficed. I hope Tochi Onyebuchi has enough integrity to write T'Challa the Black Panther' as not only being aware of the White Wolf's machinations but with a counter plan already in play while also easily of dissuading Sam of wanting to fight him. Such writing would help offset the offerings of T'Challa as he has and is presented in his own book.
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Excellent, articulate, perceptive review my brother. As expected from a mind like yours...
...but the likelihood of T'Challa being written correctly in this book or any other by Marvel, and Redjack isn't authoring said book? Ranges from "Never happen" to "Not even hopeful enough to wish for it". At least it does, imo.
Observe, for instance, the absolute STUPIDITY of the notion of Sam Wilson actually fighting with T'Challa. The bald faced stupidity of such...given their history together...is just this side of intolerable. The conclusion to such a conflict was long ago determined. If T'Challa could do THIS to the Super Serum Cap who's had longer than a lifetime to hone his skills and literally taught Sam how to scrap...
...then there's no way that this couldn't end in anything but swift defeat for Sam.
This entire affair wouldn't have even merited The White Wolf's attention; at most? Hunter would have hired some ringers to manipulate the WAKANDA FOREVER movement [ like having them supplied via dummy corporations by SILVER SABLE ] in order to draw Sam out, have him run the gauntlet of crumbs through the dummy corporations, into a trap that would preferably allow them to extract from Sam's mind close hold top secret information from the supercape and espionage USA community, and clone Sam without his knowledge in order to make CLAM...Clone Sam...do unpatriotic, explosive things that would put the USA in hot water internationally.
The Silver Sable is a FORMIDABLE h2h combatant, weapons master, and strategist. She would give Sam fits. Add her crew THE WILD PACK into the mix, and on top of that just to make life unnecessarily bad for Sam we add THE PALADIN to Sable and her high level resources? And we have a real fight on our hands for Sam, ladies and germs. [ Plus, Sam actively dislikes PALADIN...]
But Hunter? Would literally kill Sam. FAST. And mercilessly, too. Unless Sam goes through a serious h2h upgrade [ HINT, HINT, he NEEDS TO DO SO ASAP ], Sam shouldn't be anywhere near stupid enough to mess with White Wolf. Remember how Anti-Cap handled Sam? White Wolf would do that, but with more style and homicidal flavor.
Btw, in the comic book that PRIEST wrote teaming Sam and Cap together vs Anti-Cap...with Sam/Falcon fighting Anti-Cap? Sam was using a modified open hand slapping style taken straight from KANDEKA, a subcategory of skill derived from the Alkebulan/Afrakan/etc art of Kipura from Kongo.
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