At this point, Hickmans Tchalla is miles ahead pf Coates ineffectual Tchalla.
Coates at least had Tchalla physically not a piece of sh*t. He at least stomped goons like they were, well, goons and displayed various useful tech.
Hickmans tchalla woukdnt stare at Tetu dancing and then get restrained by plants. Nor get hit by an rpg.
God, cant believe im advocating Hickmans panther. Yeesh
Good Brother MoS, Coates' Panther is Hickman's Panther. Coates has done nothing with T'Challa to date but make him introspective about all the crap with which Hickman saddled him. By the way, Hickman's Panther rarely did anything of consequence on panel. In that regard "Coates'" Panther has already been more physical in three issues than Hickman's was in three years!
Peace,
Mont
At the very least, Hickman's BP would throttle goons. He did it in the first issue and other times as well. Coates BP getting jumped by miners, goon slammed by Gary, and taking RPG to the face (all in some dumb effort to prop up this dumb ass force push suit). Hickman also brought some, misguided IMO, but interesting tech with the force field, teleportation, brought back the daggers, and the glow claws. Not to mention building a cage that could hold a herald of galactus.
And, its hard to look back now since we know how it ended, Hickman's Panther didn't get off putting until later in the book. In the beginning, you could justify some stuff. The weight on the incursions was real. Bringing in the Illuminati was a stretch but I could justify it initially. Threatening the kill Namor after he wasn't useful... thats classic Panther. Mind wiping Steve for the greater good, sure. Building bombs, blowing up dead planets, good, sure we are on our way.
It wasn't until like... a year or so into it that things started to look suspect. Then we had "the cry" which, I know what they were going for, but was handled incorrectly and out of character. Then hickman so botched the Namor thing that it poisons the whole run.
Coates run was suspect from the world GO. There is no redeeming qualities to this T'challa. He hasn't had a single "fun" moment. No cool feats. Acting like a fool. Its Panther's Rage all over again, except the audience/fans have "upgraded" since then. McGregors fallin on his ass Panther isn't fun after you have seen Priest, Hudling, SWaD, Liss, EMH, MCU Panther. This would be like putting Stark in his Mark 1 armor.
And even worse... Coates is muddying up Wakanda. The same Wakanda that wouldn't give the cure for XYZ because they are better than the rest. Supposed to be afro futurism, and instead its stereotypical Discovery channel Africa.