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Doomwar #2

By Hervé St-Louis
March 22, 2010 - 07:40

This issue the Black Panthers reach Wakanda with the help of a few X-Men and Doctor Doom continues his reign of terror, trying to force T’Challa to pick between his wife, Storm of the X-Men or the vibranium supply of his country. Which will T’Challa pick?

This series is not bad at all, but it is definitely a sleeper for Marvel Comics. Doctor Doom is a perfect foil to all the heroes and especially the Black Panther. A lot happened and I can see that T’Challa’s sister, Princess Shuri is being set up as a crazed heroine with a blood list fetish. I’ve followed the Black Panther comic book in the past but I wasn’t clear about the identity of all the characters. In one page, a female character which is neither Storm, T’Challa’s mother or Princess Shuri refers to the hero as “beloved.” It raised a bunch of questions for me, but also underlines that although this series moves fast and is full of action that should satisfy most readers, it is still obscure and little has been done to properly introduce all characters to this series for new readers.

Eaton is used to the Black Panther and his black characters actually look like they are black, instead of Caucasian with brown painted on them. The characters also each have their own looks. This is good. Unfortunately, the darker colour palette used by Beaulieu is too dark to enhance the work of Eaton and the entire book ends ups being a smudge of lines and colours that is not really appealing, although the artist is fine. The cover by Romita was poor by all standards and looks like it was put together at the last minute just so they could say Romita participated and try to sell more copies. Well poor covers, even by Romita don’t tend to do that.

Rating: 8 /10

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