I saw so many BIG OUTLET type articles going, "BP #1 is great, but also be sure to pick up World of Wakanda which is way more accessible!" I still don't understand the apparent economics behind axing something which is getting GOOD PR about being an entryway into a major franchise. Written by a skyrocketing best-selling award-winning author no less. -- And I like Coates a lot, but the Black Panther/Black Panther in Spaaaace big storylines he's doing are kind of impenetrable even to n00bs with some prep like me. Then Nnedi Okorafor had a Wakanda mini that was split over four separate books and advertised like once at midnight in Pumpkin Centre Town Hall. Altho at least now she has the Shuri book, which is getting decent press.

(And then of course one ACTUAL criticism I kept seeing from white fanboy types re World of Wakanda getting cancelled was "Marvel got greedy, they put out a new Black Panther, and there was World of Wakanda and then Wakanda this and Wakanda that and it was all too hard to follow and the market was saturated," and I mean all you have to do is point to the Venom booming industry and go REALLY, MOTHERFUCKERS? THAT IS YOUR ARGUMENT?) (And right then there were precisely like three, 3, spinoffs -- Rise of BP which came out two years after Coates's relaunch, WoW which was six months after, and BP and the Crew which was a resurrection of Priest's famous Crew book, cancelled after seven issues, and BP&Crew was cancelled after....TWO issues! and six were published. WHY am I even a comics fan, why.)

("Comics will break your heart, kid." - Jack Kirby)