Having gotten my hopes up for Coates only to have them dashed and be torched to subatomic particles so small that they make a fraction of a quark look like infinitely vast multiverses, I am in zero hurry to get my hopes up about this book. It has the potential to be outstanding, just like Coates BP could have been.
But.
If there were Rape Camps in Coates BP? Expect something equally imfreakinpossible and repugnant to be in WoW. The continuity of Rape Camps will be all up in that book, and of course the feminist middle digit will be flipped at TChalla for real. Idk if they will speak on or hate on Shuri.
I want the books to be good. With the advent of THE COATES' version of Priest's CREW, and the return of ORORO MUNROE to Wakanda...and imo the first or second visit to Wakanda by our own Misty Knight...Coates' book may be picking up.
Idk cuz I'm still not buying it. Maybe flip through the pages at my LCS, and if it's not beautiful poetry overlaid upon plot vomit, I may buy that book.
Look. TChalla wouldn't've condescended to hott box with Zenzi or Tetu or whatever his name is. The WDF would have smashed both of them. Out of hand. Easy peezy. And if Zenzi n nem got too uppity? The same crew that spawned Mendinao and Zawaviri would simply hand Zenzi and Tetu the magic beatdown. You heard of the one hitter quitter? Well...this would be the one spell zinger bell ringer.
This is the crew that handled the [ drastically upgraded powers due to common sense origin alteration and clarification, just as BP became the MU prepmaster and shrewdest man under Priest's pen via equally common sense application of resources and attributes established decades..half a century...ago ] the fell powers of Karnaj and Somberr and their cruel, deadly powerful magicks. If Tetu is the equivalent of a Druid [ maybe High Druid ] in Dungeons and Dragons like Coates said, then TChalla has already gone Pimp Named Slickback on a cabal of Arch Mages and High Priests like Karnaj, Somberr, etc. And he did that solo. Of course, his WDF would be prepped for these kinds of threats...and we haven't even talked about Uncle Syan's son, T'Chan yet. Has he recovered? Bring him back. That character has stupid fly potential.
Yes. I went 90's slang on you.
Anyway...
Don't write TChalla down in order to bring other characters up. Step up the other characters so they can do their own unique thing, and be appreciated as such. This book would be sooooo muuuch BETTER if such were the case.