'Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet' might help those who want to stay in Wakanda
T'Challa finally got his very long overdue (get your sh*t together, Hollywood) standalone movie this February with Marvel's new movie Black Panther.
The good news is that the movie has already broken a ton of records, with a $427 million worldwide opening.
The bad news is that the movie is just over two hours, and, according to our movie critic, "If there's a downside to Black Panther, it's that it has to end eventually."
But just because the movie ends doesn't mean you have to stop exploring the world of Wakanda. That's where Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet comes in!
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet is a 2016 Black Panther comic series written by award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates. Rather than facing off against Killmonger like in the movie, A Nation Under Our Feet introduces us to a T'Challa grappling with questions of how to govern and protect a Wakanda torn by war and dissent from within. The comic reveals a new side of T'Challa not yet seen in the movie, providing a new element of Black Panther to layer on top of Chadwick Boseman's portrayal.
This week on the MashReads Podcast, we chat about Black Panther, both the new Marvel movie and the Ta-Nehisi Coates-written comic book reboot.
Join us in the episode above as we chat about what makes the Black Panther movie so special, how Killmonger ranks as a villain, and how the comic compares to the movie.
And as always, we close the show with recommendations:
Brian De Los Santos, Mashable's assistant editor who joined us this week, recommends hyphy music, especially because of the Black Panther soundtrack. "It was the soundtrack to my high school experience, it was the one moment in which the Bay Area, growing up, had reached the map. Hyphy music has influences on the [Black Panther] soundtrack — E-40, Mac Dre, go ahead and listen to every song they've done. It's very related to this [Black Panther] discussion, and Oakland, and it's just very good music overall."
Martha recommends Queer Eye, Netflix's reboot of the early 2000s show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. "It's one of those TV shows where you can go home, and sit on the couch and escape in it, and feel good."
Peter recommends The New York Times' podcast Still Processing. "We've talked about it on this podcast, but they've had back to back episodes that have really been wonderful to me. They did a fantastic one this week about Black Panther with Ta-Nehisi Coates. And the week before that they did a show on Three Billboards Outside Of Ebbing, Missouri and they were to succinctly describe my dissatisfaction with that film in a way that I was never able to put together in my head."
MJ recommends all of the hilarious writing about Fergie's, um, colorful, national anthem performance, including "Fergie Apologizes for Giving America the National Anthem It Deserves" from The Root" and "A Brief, Fraught Timeline of My Attempt to Watch Fergie’s Whole Rendition of the National Anthem" from The Ringer. "The rendition was not the greatest. The writing about the rendition has been phenomenal."
And be sure to check out Brian De Los Santos' story "Someone hijacked my Spotify. Here's what happened when I fought back."
And if you want to discover more Black Panther, be sure to check out Mashable's comprehensive coverage with Black Panther Week here.
Next we are talking with David Levithan, author of Boy Meets Boy, Two Boys Kissing, The Lover's Dictionary, and more, about the upcoming movie adaptation of his novel Every Day. We hope you'll join us.
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