Well... let me put this way, there was little more than this to see.
One or two more punches and an evacuation command. So much for the Red Panther. Once again nothing but stalled potential.
I absolutely loved the breakdown. I haven't bought the book yet, because I wanted to see the reviews first...and I'm still going to buy the book in order to give the brutha a chance to grow and write our real BP. But like I said earlier? That breakdown of what "The Red Panther" was wearing is something that I loved. You all know that my family trains in a modified version of Dambe as part of the Kipura from Kongo which made the travel with [ all of us of Alkebulan miscalled African ] blood on that boat ride to European hell. So...seeing the Dambe cords just was beautiful. My own ideas I haven't shared, but one of them DID include the Dambe cords...and other dope things...in my unique vision of what I guess can be called SIBP...Supreme Illuminati BP. I definitely liked the stones because in my fanfic I referred to them as duara za fuwele za Yewa [ "the crystalline spheres of Yewa"; Yewa is a powerful, mysterious, beautiful and scarifying Orisha who legend says lives in, near, and around cemetaries. Also known as a very powerful strong and courageous warrior spirit spanning real and metaphorical Rivers, Yewa is known above all for being extremely strict and wise
https://ashepamicuba.com/en/yewa/ ]. The Duara Za Yewa were set in the same link and with the same circlet that held the Kimoyo beads.
All that "Necropolis" stuff needs to be tossed. Immediately. Wakandans don't use Outworlder language for anything in the continent; especially anything Wakandan.
I definitely liked the creative notion of having an armor forged of "Metallicized Orisha-blood". That is SOOO DOPE!! Never thought of anything like it...
...probably because I really. Really. Really don't think that T'Challa really needs "armors". I think that too many people are treading on Iron Man's thing, and not taking the time to develop unique expressions for BP himself. And build on stuff we already have in canon. Remember Maberry's sigils that were put on T'Challa's flesh? SIBP has that still. The "usandihi wa akiliteknoka"..."mind-techno-spirit script/runes/sigils"...would suffice for all of that...while adding to the unique lore of BP and NOT trampling on the schtick of other people's "thing". And keeping T'Challa as MORE OF A TECH GUY, A GADGET GUY, THAN A SORCERER [ which is true to CJP BP and Stan Lee BP ]. T'Challa used this vs Saralynth the Cruel in my fanfic.
T'Challa and the BPs would have had this kind of tech literally hundreds of millennia before Doom was born. Doom is definitely NOT the first magic-tech wielder that Wakanda has faced. Wakanda has faced cosmic precursors of The Empirikul long before there was an "Empirikul". In fact? Some alien species and civilizations could plausibly look upon Wakanda [ at various times during its existence ] as a potential Empirikul like threat itself.
I definitely like much of what I see in the pic. But the big question, and the deciding matter, is this:
DID T'CHALLA BEAT DOOM DOWN?
If he didn't? Dollars to donuts it's because Marvel Editorial isn't having Doom gettin beatdown by T'Challa.
