My other blogs are Giant-Sized this week, and so is Playing Favorites. Enjoy.
Full
disclosure; I’ve only read, like a half-dozen individual Black Panther
comics. That’s not even ‘Black Panther’ comics where his name was on the
title. Half of those were ‘Fantastic Four’ issues where Reed and Sue
were on vacation after Civil War and newlyweds Black Panther and Storm
were filling in. I honestly only picked those up because they ended up
dimension-hopping to the Marvel Zombies Universe. I got one from after
that arc where they were on racist retard Skrull planet (just like in
the classic Star Trek episode, “A Piece of the Action”), but that…had to
be an accident; I don’t think that comic came out while I was still
drinking heavily.
Anyway, I like Black Panther because
he’s the trifecta; the technology, magic, and national support of Doctor
Doom, the drive, abilities, and wealth of Batman, and the something
something of someone else who isn’t memorable because they aren’t Doctor
Doom or Batman(maybe ‘integrity’ and ‘Captain America’). But really,
aren’t Batman and Doctor Doom enough to make a trifecta? Possibly more?
Is the sum of two and two three? No, it would be foolish to say such is
so, but it would not be so foolish to say that two and two is greater
than three.
