>Marvel has revealed another new series launching September: Black Panther and the Agents of Wakanda, spinning out of Avengers and starring the covert ops team assembled by Black Panther to handle the business the Avengers can’t. The new series was announced on Marvel.com, where writer Jim Zub, who is joined by artist Lan “Funky Cold” Medina, described the book as a “Kirby-fueled Mission Impossible.”
>BLACK PANTHER AND THE AGENTS OF WAKANDA is Kirby-fueled Mission: Impossible in the Marvel Universe. It’s over-the-top action and unexpected twists with a cast of characters pulled from strange places in the Marvel Comics canon. This is a strike force of misfits and monsters tasked with defending humanity and that gives me the freedom to tell a huge range of stories—serious and sadistic, epic and emotional.
>It’s unclear, and even a little unsettling, that Marvel has somehow found a way to produce fuel out of legendary comic book artist Jack Kirby. Nevertheless, the series does sound interesting, especially for those enjoying the team’s exploits in the pages of Avengers. Says Zub:
>Jason assembled a really bold group of weird and wonderful heroes. I’m using that as the foundation for the series and building up from there. Black Panther is at the forefront, of course, but each story will also rotate in or out other agents as needed, mixing up our character dynamics to keep it fresh and fun. The Agents of Wakanda are part of the broader Avengers support structure, but also operate independent of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, dealing with a staggering array of dangers, big and small. That’s what Jason started with, and I’m pushing that out even further.
>Written by Jim Zub with art by Lan Medina, the new ongoing series brings a squad first seen in the pages of Jason Aaron’s AVENGERS (2018) into the spotlight—or, more appropriately, into the shadows.
>An under-the-radar task force spearheaded by the King of Wakanda with the help of General Okoye, the Agents of Wakanda introduce their very own brand of covert operations as the Wasp, Ka-Zar, and Gorilla-Man come together to take on threats across realities…
Oh so of course they've got to put the GORILLA on the WAKANDAN guy's team!
Isaiah Morris
i just noticed the helicarrier. what's going on with it? they look like streamers.
Hudson Thompson
>T'Challa made the unanimous leader of the Avengers, even Carol and Tony agreeing on something so close to the aftermath of Civil War 2 >T'Challa forms the Agents of Wakanda since SHIELD is still doneso or something >Galactic Empire of Wakanda is still a thing for some reason Why is Marvel giving so much stuff to T'Challa? I thought they were pushing women this year, not diversity?
Jace Phillips
I wonder if Aaron chose the team members or if Zub got to pick them ahead of time to appear in Avengers when the team was formed.
Julian Rivera
T'Challa has learned Wolverine's secret technique.
Easton Bennett
>An under-the-radar task force spearheaded by the King of Wakanda with the help of General Okoye, the Agents of Wakanda introduce their very own brand of covert operations as the Wasp, Ka-Zar, and Gorilla-Man come together to take on threats across realities…
It seems hard to be a covert and under-the-radar taskforce when you have the king of a well-know country leading it in the field clad in his cultural suit of state.
They are going to be able to discern quite alot just from him alone, though having a founding member of the Avengers there with not even a mask to hide her identity doesn't help either.
Adam Bell
Because optically, Black Panther, was the biggest new property of the MCU
Thomas Jackson
True, Black Panther was much more well received than Cosmic Carol.
Logan Perry
Can’t tell on him if they’re all dead
He’s probably going to be thr behind the scenes guy
Colton Bennett
>of course they've got to put the GORILLA on the WAKANDAN guy's team! This.
desu I would have preferred the alcohol man-bear from the Winter Guard.
Adam Rogers
It would have been pretty fucked up if the rest of the team had been only black heroes, and then they put him on it.
Easton Thompson
Wakanada has their own, poorly designed, Helicarrier now.
William Green
You know, if they did a book on the Wakanda secret police, I'd read it. I'm not going to read this.
Daniel Miller
Well that doesn't seem much of a leap, seeing as they also have some sort of space empire too?
Angel Thomas
I mean Wasp shrinks to the size of an insect. She doesn't exactly need a mask to hide her face. If she's doing her job right no one will even know she was ever there
Black Panther is also pretty damn stealthy
It's Ka-Zar, Fat Cobra and the gorilla who are too flashy for a covert ops team
Joshua Bell
Wakanda starts their space advance at the end of Secret Wars. It's not a hard stretch for them to become the dominant world power over a long period of time. The Space Panther book is pretty far in the future.
Countries other than America should be shown with their own superteams more often.
And more important those teams should actually have credibility, instead of just appearing to job and hype up some threat or event.
Like these poor fucks who were jobbed off in their first appearance, all being killed by a suicide bomber in passing just as part of an Iron Man plotline.
also true for me Although Avengers is currently running up nearly as many books as Spider-Man, so hopefully there is something building up that doesn't suck.
Robert Davis
Something like, the dark underside of what seems to be a utopia?
Samuel Hill
Depends on the covert ops, If they are out taking care of things that aren't flashy or heroic enough for the Avengers brand it's different from needing to be super secret nobody ever saw us. They could easily have a mission where Ka-Zar, Gorilla Man, and Doc Nemesis destroy an AIM facility and steal all the tech.
Noah Thompson
I mean they used to portray Wakanda as troubled didn't they? That Black Panther had to struggle to keep all the tribal factions of the nation from going at each others throats over old grudges while also dealing with other problems of running a nation.
How have they been treating the country more recently? The last time I heard about it was when it was under the heavyhanded jizz-encrusted palms of Hudlin making it his personal black power fantasy that made me start going out of my way to not have to deal with it anymore.
The only thing I ended up seeing because of Yea Forums was a comic where BP destroys all the Vibranium because Doom was using it to power himself up because of magic, is that still the case?
Yeah, it's already been shown that the Hatut Zeraze were doing all kinds of dirty stuff under T'Chaka, I think an edgier book about them influencing Wakanda's future could be good.
Lincoln Jenkins
Honestly, I have no idea. MCU is pretty much all I know about Black Panther. When Marvel did the relaunch last year, I dipped my toes into nearly everything, but I couldn't get past the first issue of Black Panther because it was something about slaves being forced to mine on an asteroid or something, I didn't know any of the names/characters, and it assumed I knew a lot of backstory about Galactic Wakanda, so I dropped it. agree
Jason Rivera
>written by a white guy No thanks sweetie.
He made them fuckin bank and got them a bunch of good press.
Aaron's a deluded faggot so I doubt he actually plans his events further than his shitty scripts.
Christian Watson
This joke team of silly french stereotypes that showed up when Ben was fleeing the country during Civil War is almost a respectful example in comparison.
Maybe they could have Black Widow join in order to give a Winter Guard team book more marketability.
Logan Ortiz
What're they gonna do find some Wakandans to write for BP?
It's not like there are any real advanced African society to pull people from for a similar personal history or does a middle class black from Detroit or Chicago get to randomly understand life in Africa because he's black.
Cooper Adams
Coates run was basically about Wakanda being a 1st world economy and living conditions bolted onto a 3rd world society and government.
The real issue is that switching from the pre-Hudlin, post-colonial Africa narrative of Wakanda to the post-Hudlin, always-a-hyperpower-in-disguise Wakanda did a lot of harm to how Wakanda related to the MU in general and particularly how it related to itself.
Eli Myers
>Avengers >Savage Avengers >Black Panther and the Agents of Wakanda >Strike Force
what a weird time for the Avengers to turn into "dark, gritty quasi-barbarian meets X Force spin-offs"
Thomas Turner
It was pretty fucked up when Marvel introduced the concept that all black superheroes were in some secret club just because they were black.
Like a dude from Africa or a dude from Britain is supposed to care about your 'hood' Luke Cage, they've got more important things to do like run a nation or hunt vampires. Fuck they even had the new Nick Fury Jr Director of SHIELD as a member of the group, who was just a hamfisted way to force a guy that looks like the Ultimate Nick Fury that had already existed into 616 because MCU Fury is also Samuel L Jackson.
Bentley Adams
where is hammer and sickle man?
Julian Mitchell
That's Vanguard. He became the new Red Guardian after the last one died
Asher Young
Even if it was just a miniseries, I'd totally read a book with Hunter in it doing secret ops shit for what he thinks is the greater good. If Christopher Priest was writing it it'd be a no brainer.
Jaxson Hill
Wasp finna get BLACKED and Stark finna get renamed Iron Cυck!
Isaac Garcia
>Agents of Wakanda >Ken Hale
I'm hoping Derek Khanata will be in this, and yet I know he won't.
Oliver Thompson
Why would a modern russian team have a hammer and sickle man
Luke Torres
We already know the full lineup, in Aaron's Avengers T'challa hired a bunch of B-List heroes to be specialists for Avengers Mountain engaging in solo missions and taking care of small things you don't need to throw Thor at. It's the people on the cover plus Man-Wolf, Doc Nemesis, Broo, American Eagle, and Fat Cobra, and some shield agent chick named Roz Solomon.
Andrew Edwards
Throw colossus on there too and you got my money
Luke Morales
Colossus isn't relevant to a team of government supers, that would be really forced.
Cameron Butler
Gee winter guard! How come Marvel let you have TWO Gods?
Didn't they get slaughtered 2 pages later by a random bomb?
Logan Barnes
Did you not read the words of the post and/or filename?
Josiah Anderson
Ironically, no
Nolan Sanders
>And more important those teams should actually have credibility, instead of just appearing to job and hype up some threat or event. Or being led by Carol Danvers or Jimmy Woo
Jacob Russell
imagine if T'Challa maries Jane Foster!
Henry Wright
Well, she did just get out of chemo, and iirc T'Challa do like bald women.
Kayden Walker
T'Challa is borderline asexual
Jaxon Fisher
He did turn down the harem of bodyguards that it was customary for black panthers to have...
Didn't he nearly fuck Sue Storm at some point?
Tyler Rivera
>>BLACK PANTHER AND THE AGENTS OF WAKANDA is Kirby-fueled Mission: Impossible in the Marvel Universe. It’s over-the-top action and unexpected twists with a cast of characters pulled from strange places in the Marvel Comics canon. This is a strike force of misfits and monsters tasked with defending humanity and that gives me the freedom to tell a huge range of stories—serious and sadistic, epic and emotional.
How can you describe a team that contains the King of Wakanda and his bodyguard as a "team of misfits"?
Christian Parker
Potentially it could be that the KING OF WAKANDA, SPIRITUAL LIEGE OF ALL SUPERHEROES is going to take more of an overseer role, giving missions to the teams of weirdos that aren't important enough for his real hero team.
He would just included at the forefront of the cover for sales purposes, since covers lie.
Of course its more likely its just bullshit descriptors being put into an article and BP is going to be the new Wolverine of the Marvel Universe.
Isaiah Murphy
>Didn't he nearly fuck Sue Storm at some point?
Why would he cuck his pal Reed?
Charles Sullivan
Because capeshit is just lower quality soap opera with more fight scenes.
Kayden Scott
Why wouldn't T'Challa simply put together a team of elite agents who aren't misfit weirdos? He is the king of the wealthiest and most technologically advanced nation on earth. He is capable of hiring the best of the best so why would he only recruit misfits?
Benjamin Moore
Because alot of superheroes are misfits and not quite Avenger-material but still capable of doing good and fighting threats?
Ryder Ortiz
Because when you think about it, most of what T'Challa does is slumming.
Michael Watson
Gorilla-Man, Fat Cobra, Man-Wolf, and Ka-Zar are all misfits though
Henry Flores
>And faggot space gods They're stand-ins for the other mythological gods, as Kirby originally intended. But go off.
Oliver Sullivan
>putting Ka-Zar on any team Why? He is the most boring Tarzan rip-off to be ever created
Easton Gray
I don't see them singing "die die die my darling"
Zachary Watson
BLACK OPS
Austin Morgan
Why does your super elite team of world hoppers led by a king need to be covert? Are they spies? Are they committing war crimes?
Joshua Perry
>Didn't he nearly fuck Sue Storm at some point?
It was basically a non-canon comic that nobody cares... well, except cucks.
William Rivera
There is no way that this book was planned way back when, Aaron just added whatever characters he wanted to round out his avenger s supporting characters for his terrible run.
Jack Stewart
Remember the time the secret group controlling the world was committing genocide on a planetary inter-dimensional scale but got off by blaming Namor as a scapegoat?
Jaxson Cruz
A white person in a Wakanda team?
Kevin Wright
>2 black men, 1 black woman and a token white man to get fat white incels to buy the book.
oh boy this is gonna flop
Lucas Barnes
Are you retarded. Gorilla-Man isn't black, and there's a white chick on the cover too.
Angel Mitchell
There are equivalents to Captain America, Black Widow, Hulk, Thor, Scarlet Witch, and Vision. Who is Chernobog a Russian version of?
Isaac Phillips
12 issues max
Aaron Gutierrez
Chernobog is just Chernobog.
Also Darkstar is a long existing character, she's not that close to being Scarlet Witch?
Jaxson Hill
I'm not gonna put Zub on blast because I've been enjoying the stuff he's been involved with lately, but frankly, this book doesn't really look like a mainstay. They should've given Ewing his Ultimates revival (Ultimates3 or Cubed) and let him go crazy with Marvel Cosmic again. I know he apparently he has plans for Quasar and Nova soonish, but Ultimates was something special. Pic mildly related because of the topic.
oh how clumsy of me. Clearly black men and gorillas look nothing alike. Sorry user
Juan Cook
Besides if anything between the black and yellow costume, energy projection powers, and star symbol, she's more of a Carol Danvers equivalent
Eli Davis
>Agents of Wakanda >Gorilla >White People
Why did they even bother?
Eli Harris
They hadn't committed anything until Namor blew up sungod's earth, they got lucky because something else destroyed the world's for them. When it came time for them to nut up they couldn't do it, except for Namor because he's a real fucking king who knows that sometimes you have to do though shit to ensure the safety of your people.
Jacob Baker
Tchalla isn't going to put his people in harm's way when he can just hire a bunch of nobodies to do his shady shit and die in his name.
Carter Gray
Without Wasp, this team would be SUPER racist.
Noah Cooper
What's racist about it?
Ethan Lewis
Without Wasp it would be very tribal themed I guess? Plus a gorilla.
Jace Diaz
Let's see what Black Panther's team consists of
>King Fuck of Nigga Mountain >A Spearchucker >A savage in a loincloth >A literal fucking gorilla >Poor Littlest White Girl
