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GRAPH N COA
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Publication
Marvel (2017), 144 pages
Description
"As Zenzi and the people poison Wakanda's citizens against the Black Panther, a cabal of nation-breakers is assembled. And Ayo and Aneka, the Midnight Angels, are courted by Tetu to help raise their land to new glory! His allies dwindling, T'Challa must rely on his elite secret police, the Hatut Zeraze, and fellow Avenger Eden Fesi, a.k.a. Manifold! And with T'Challa's back truly against the wall, he even calls in some old friends to lend a hand: Luke Cage, Misty Knight and Storm! But Wakanda may be too far gone for this all-new, all-different Crew-- and there's one job the Panther must handle alone. Only he can voyage into the Djalia! Getting there is hard enough, but can even he find his sister Shuri inside Wakanda's collective memory?"--Back cover.… (more)
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LibraryThing member nicolewbrown
Tetu and Zenzi are leaders of the insurgent group known as The People and they have sown seeds of dissent among those of Wakanda. They sought the help of former Dora Milafe Ayo (T'Challa's sister) and Aneka now known as the Midnight Angels who are seeking justice for the women and downtrodden, but
T'Challa brings Eden Fesi known as the former Avenger Manifold to help him with Shuri, but he ends up helping him with a bigger problem he has on hand. With Manifold's help, he is able to break through to one of the suicide bombers. T'Challa appeals to the bombers sense of family and its connection to his nation and apologizes for not being there for the man's brother who died. He asks him if he will serve his hate or the memory of his brother and the bomber gives him the information he can use.
Black Panther lets himself be captured by Stane and his people in order to get a recording of Stane saying that Tetu had put a price on his head in order to get the wealth of Wakanda. T'Challa's people send the recording out to the people to see. Meanwhile, Manifold, Storm, Luke Cage, and Misty arrive to help Black Panther take down Stane and his people.
While this is going on the army is being sent out to go up against the Midnight Angels with very little luck as Tetu and the mysterious Deceiver from book one who has mystical powers helps them defeat the army without killing them through mind control.
This is a much easier to understand book than the first one, yet the storyline is still a complex one with many narratives that keep it interesting. Will T'Challa be able to save Shuri and if he does what will she have to bring back from the Djalia plane that might help the situation in Wakanda right now? Will T'Challa be able to truly get rid of Stane and what will he do with his sister and the Midnight Angels? This is a great comic and worth giving a read.
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they turned them down. Tetu then turned to Ezekiel Stane a weaponeer and biotechnology expert to raise the stakes in their war. Repulsortech suicide bombers hit a city square killing many innocents and severely hurting the queen-mother Ramonda. T'Challa has had to put aside the project of reviving his sister Shuri from her living death chamber. Shuri is still traveling the Djalia a plane of Wakanda's past, present, and future guided by a mother spirit who teaches her tales that are to help her understand something greater.T'Challa brings Eden Fesi known as the former Avenger Manifold to help him with Shuri, but he ends up helping him with a bigger problem he has on hand. With Manifold's help, he is able to break through to one of the suicide bombers. T'Challa appeals to the bombers sense of family and its connection to his nation and apologizes for not being there for the man's brother who died. He asks him if he will serve his hate or the memory of his brother and the bomber gives him the information he can use.
Black Panther lets himself be captured by Stane and his people in order to get a recording of Stane saying that Tetu had put a price on his head in order to get the wealth of Wakanda. T'Challa's people send the recording out to the people to see. Meanwhile, Manifold, Storm, Luke Cage, and Misty arrive to help Black Panther take down Stane and his people.
While this is going on the army is being sent out to go up against the Midnight Angels with very little luck as Tetu and the mysterious Deceiver from book one who has mystical powers helps them defeat the army without killing them through mind control.
This is a much easier to understand book than the first one, yet the storyline is still a complex one with many narratives that keep it interesting. Will T'Challa be able to save Shuri and if he does what will she have to bring back from the Djalia plane that might help the situation in Wakanda right now? Will T'Challa be able to truly get rid of Stane and what will he do with his sister and the Midnight Angels? This is a great comic and worth giving a read.
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LibraryThing member StormRaven
Volume Two of A Nation Under Our Feet picks up more or less where Volume on left off, and shows much the same promise of brilliance and suffers from much the same flaws as the first volume. It is clear that Coates wants to write a story about the morality of power - who gets to wield it and how it
[More forthcoming]
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may be used in a just manner - but he keeps stumbling over the inherent contradictions of a world in which hereditary rulers with powers that make them literally superhuman are the heroes and they are opposed by (among others) people advocating for representative government. It seems that in this installment of the story Coates has recognized this paradox, and has tried to work around it, but it still seems like the world the story is set in is simply getting in the way of the story Coates wants to tell. This isn't to say that this is a bad book, but it is rather an attempt to do something that may be bigger than the genre it takes place in can allow, and as a result, it struggles against these constraints.[More forthcoming]
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LibraryThing member greeniezona
After Dept. of Speculation, I needed something completely different, so I picked up this volume which I'd been sitting on for far too long.
Less bewildering now that we've completed all the introductions, we can finally get into the story, which is part superhero story, part musing on how a people
I also appreciated the appearance of the Crew, and am getting more and more interested in Shuri, T'Challa's sister.
I am more interested in continuing to follow this series than I expected to be after volume one.
Less bewildering now that we've completed all the introductions, we can finally get into the story, which is part superhero story, part musing on how a people
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should be governed. It's an interesting tension between populist uprisings, a few shady characters taking advantage of the unrest, and our hero who is king. I am curious how it will settle out.I also appreciated the appearance of the Crew, and am getting more and more interested in Shuri, T'Challa's sister.
I am more interested in continuing to follow this series than I expected to be after volume one.
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LibraryThing member m_mozeleski
In the second installment of the series, T'Challa grows closer to understanding his enemy, asks friends for a little help in tracking his enemies, and grows as a King. The verdict is still out on whether he will manage to stifle the revolution or if it will overtake everything and descend into
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LibraryThing member villemezbrown
I like some of the concepts behind this take on Black Panther, but the execution remains a total snooze.
LibraryThing member michaeladams1979
Tough one to rate�Ã_ very well written, intelligent, articulate, touching on culture, politics, and philosophy; featuring well-rounded and realistic characters, but the pacing is so slow and there is virtually no action, which makes this a technically good, but viscerally less-appealing
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LibraryThing member Ron18
This book needs to be saved from itself, post haste. It still suffers from being a convoluted diatribe about fictional diplomacy and machinations far too subtle for the visual medium. The "Crew" issue even manages to only be worth reading when the guest stars are in effect - and the brief dialogs
There's comics, and there's this. Marvel had the opportunity to really build on the super-massive success of the movie - and instead this happened. Marvel rubs some salt into the wound by only filling 1/2 of this trade with actual comic pages from the series. The rest is absurd cross-promotional alternative covers that cheapen the whole industry, and reprints of old mediocre BP comics unrelated to the narrative in the current story (of course they are... the current story is like watching paint dry on the walls of a room during a congressional hearing).
Would never have kept reading if it weren't a library borrow.
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between BP and Ororo were the highlight of the book (all two or three panels of them). There's comics, and there's this. Marvel had the opportunity to really build on the super-massive success of the movie - and instead this happened. Marvel rubs some salt into the wound by only filling 1/2 of this trade with actual comic pages from the series. The rest is absurd cross-promotional alternative covers that cheapen the whole industry, and reprints of old mediocre BP comics unrelated to the narrative in the current story (of course they are... the current story is like watching paint dry on the walls of a room during a congressional hearing).
Would never have kept reading if it weren't a library borrow.
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LibraryThing member Cail_Judy
Stronger than the first collection. Great ending to this book, but the pacing is slow as hell. Coates is a gifted writer but he's still trying to find his footing in moving the comic forward. I'm intrigued but not enough to keep reading this series.
The two folk tales Shuri tells in the Djalia (a
The two folk tales Shuri tells in the Djalia (a
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fifth dimensional plane) were cool. They took me back to reading old African fables as a child. Show Less
LibraryThing member DrFuriosa
This is a strong continuation of the story, and the crossovers provide much potential for worldbuilding and growth.
LibraryThing member Kavinay
Honestly, the story is just plodding. You get the sense that Coates is doing some good world-building but in all that exposition, the actual stories themselves are frequently gummed up in monologues. Case in point: T'Challa spends several pages travelling in an astral/dream plane to save Shuri, and
The real saving grace is that Wakanda is in a sense the most interesting character in the book.
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he just keeps talking and talking to himself. The real saving grace is that Wakanda is in a sense the most interesting character in the book.
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Pages
144
ISBN
1302900544 / 9781302900540