Black Panther #1: The Client

[superboyprime]

"I told them we needed a point of view character: someone who could validate the fears and presumptions of white superhero fans who’d surely be reluctant to buy a 'black' book. I had sometime before created [Everett K. Ross], an attaché (i.e. diplomatic flunky/babysitter) over Ka-Zar and had modeled him roughly after Michael J. Fox and Matthew Perry. I thought somebody like that might make a great point of view character for Panther." - Christopher J. Priest

Comments

[crinos]

Mephisto: Why aren't you wearing pants?

Conan O Brian: Why do you have a big dumb lion head?

Mephisto:.....Alright you got me.

[thatnickguy]

I'm re-reading this series right now and it still holds up. I've sadly never read the full series, but after a sale at Chapters (Canadian book store chain), I picked up the last two volumes of the Complete Collection. Figured it best to read the whole thing from the beginning to refresh my mind of everything. And even though it's my third or fourth time -rereading the earlier stories, they're still great.

I think another reason Priest used Ross is because T'Challa is generally a "man of few words" kind of character. Which is difficult to create a comic around if you want to do narration. And it works out beautifully because he's still the man of few words mysterious badass while being the lead character.

[coldfury]

I don't like the way Ross looks in this. In the first panels he looked like an oddly buff juvenile.

[thezmage]

I thought he was a little person in the first scan

[lordultimus]

Mephisto looks like he's right about to slam his head on the doorframe while trying to come in.

[scorntx]

"BEHOLD, MORTAL, I- ow, damn! Ow! Who put this thing h- Oww! Stupid human doorframe..."
"..."
"... I killed the moment, didn't I?"
"I'm standing here in underpants. This was never going to be one for the history books. But that didn't help."

[shadowpsykie]

is that supposed to be White Wolf, or Everret Ross? and I thought Ross was a good guy