Y’know, sometimes real life really sucks for a geek.
Such as, when you can’t ever get to the comic book shop for new comics day.
I never can get to the shop on Wednesday before closing time. The shop closest to my house packs up at 6, and I can’t complete my 45-mile commute before 6:15 at the earliest, so no comics for me.
Which is a real bummer when it’s the Wednesday that Black Panther #1, the most anticipated comic book of the year, is coming out.
It’s kinda rare that a comic book about a black superhero is what tons of people are waiting for. But then it’s also kind rare to have Ta-Nehisi Coates -- MacArthur Grant fellow,The Atlantic writer, intelligentia mainstay and a leading thinker on race issues – write one. Look, he even titled the 12-issue story arc "A Nation Under Our Feet."
Cover to Black Panther #1 and concept art by Brian Stelfreeze |
Every bit of explanation I heard from Coates, and every piece of concept art I saw from Brian Stelfreeze, made me even hungrier for this comic.
And this sucker would have to wait until Sunday to get his hands on a physical copy. Like a sucker.
Yeah, I’m not up on reading comics digitally. Mostly because: (1) I like holding the pages; (2) I just got a tablet and don’t want to carry it on the train; (3) I like paying money to my local shops.
But now I have Black Panther #1. I have read it, I have inhaled it. And, dammit, I am happy.
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