MCU REVIEW: Black Panther

Episode 61 - Black Panther Movie Review

After a fun week reading the comics origins of characters such as T’Challa and Killmonger we now turn to the blockbuster movie that brought them to a worldwide audience – Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther! 

This Week In Comics

Jonathan Hickman Reveals He's Working on Another Book at Marvel

• https://comicbook.com/comics/news/jonathan-hickman-teases-new-marvel-comics-series-gods/

New on Marvel Unlimited this Week

• https://www.marvel.com/comics/calendar/week/2023-09-03
• No number 1s this week. X-23, Thing, Doctor Strange, Venom, Silver Surfer, Captain Britian, Spider-Man 2099, Deadpool, Punisher and Carnage among those with new books available this week.

Recommendation: Nic Stone’s history of Black Panther podcast.

• https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/hfp2d-258d5e/The-History-of-Marvel-Comics-Black-Panther-Podcast

Film Facts

Tagline: Long Live the King
Released: February 16, 2018
Runtime: 134 minutes
Box Office: worldwide: $1,346,913,161 / domestic: $700,059,566
Budget: $200,000,000
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Letitia Wright, Danial Kaluuya, Winston Duke, Andy Serkis, Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett
Directed: Ryan Coogler
Screenplay: Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole 

2ish Minute Recap and Discussion Topics

Chadwick Boseman is electric 

Michael B. Jordan is fantastic 

Ryan Coogler was the right one to direct this story 

The Power of Women 

Powerful Storytelling 

Tangent about Black Beetle

Good CGI throughout. Better than in theaters?

Tidbits 

From the comics 

Face Off!

• Which Did it better? The Comics or the Movie

Correspondence

• Bluesky message from Amanda

What's Next: Avengers: Infinity War Comics

• Infinity Gauntlet (1991) #1-6 
• Thanos Rising (2013) #1-5 

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