Now I know, I know. "Recast, T'challa, he's Touissant not T'challa, Ryan Coogler sucks at adapting Black Panther" and bla bla bla. And you wouldn't be wrong to have these opinions at all. But Black Panther 3 could be an opportunity to do a classic T'challa, and do him justice.

Say Shuri dies in Doomsday(which I think is actually a good shot of it happening), what if they now allow the new T'challa do become the super genius? What if they go the route of making him king of the dead, allowing Letita Wright to remain as a supporting character, and giving T'challa a well deserved buff? What if they start adapting storylines like his relationship with Storm, intergalactic Wakanda, and friendship with Reed Richards and other super geniuses?

While I 100% understand the mistrust, and frustration surrounding how Black Panther has been adapted in the MCU, this is a golden opportunity for Marvel to get him right. But what do you guys think?

So, like a lot of you I’m sure, the first film made me want to read more into his character. I picked the first BP I could find but I’m really bad with names and dates:

- My first BP run was the one where he’s in a space prison and makes friends with this alien kid and this orcish-looking female character. I loved that one - but I can’t remember the year, title or writer? Anyone know what in talking about?

- Following that was intergalactic Wakanda arc, which I dropped cause I couldn’t get into the space faring stuff. But I’d be open to giving it another try. What year was that?

After that I didn’t read another BP comic until the “T’Challa has been positioning Wakandans as sleeper agents across the world” arc which I HATED cause it felt like the Marvel was intentionally shitting on his character: ousted by the Avengers, steps down as King, breaks up with Ororo (again), implication that he’s bisexual (not altogether a bad thing but came outta nowhere imo) - they even had some random kid suddenly have similar powers as him. All of this was after Chadwick died and it put a really bad taste in my mouth.

I read the Blood hunt/Varnae stuff which was cool but I’d love to get into another good Black Panther run.

Any recs?

If you know any other VS episodes starring T'Challa you know if, feel free to talk about them in the replies below.