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I first Marvel Knights: The World to Come #1. Joe Questada and Christopher Priest Craft a page- Tourner with Intigue and a Panther’s BITE SURE TO RUFLE SONE FEATHERS.
The Story Begins with the Death of T’Challa, Now An Elderly Man, on the Thron of Wakanda. Joe Questada and Color Artist Richard Isanove Make this Scene Fittingly Mythic, with White Marble Access with Gold. Bold Lettering by Richard Starkings and Tyler Set Set This Opening Scene 16 years after the Titular “World to Come”, Whiche in and of Itself Creats A Puzzle to Be Solved. Those Familiar with Priest’s WORK WORK Will Recography the Non-Linear Storytelling AS Marvel Knights: The World to Come #1 Boundes Back and Fort Across a Forty-Two Year Timeline.
While T’Challa’s Death Has Been Much PubLicized in the Lead-UP to The World to ComeIt Feels More A Framing Device Than Incitation Incident, At Least for the Moment. Most of this first isssue is told in Flashbacks by a Familiar Face, and Teasingly Avoids Showing Just what the “world to come” Actually is (or was). There ares Hints – Multiple Wars Are Mentioned, but as of Right Now, It’s Left to the Reader’s Imagination. If any is the one. There’s Lots of Exposition Setting Up this Hypothetical Future. Priest and Questada Keep the Pace Flowing Well En
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The Bulk of the Issue ACTULLY CENTERS AROUND A Challenge for the Wakandan Throne by T’Challa’s Son, Ketma, and it’s here is the Issue Realys Shines. Joe Questada’s Visual Storytelling Shines With a Good Sense of How to Convey Action Without Showing Every Blow of a Fight. Questada’s Layouts Create a Tight Sense of Action. There are a place a lot of Double-Page Spreads, Which Keeps A Methodical Rhythm to the Fight. Richard Isanove Uses Vivid Greens and Blues for Warrior Falls, Making the Challenge Stand Out Visually from the Off Shadowed and Moody Colors Elsewhere.
Priest amplifies T’challa Believes that Ketma Has Been Manipulated by “M’s” Cult While Ketma Believes that he had been used as a Pawn in T’Challa’s Schemes. This emotional conflict is at the heart of the first, and hints at the Overall Story.
T’Challa Has Oft Suffled Personally Due to His Own Machins, But Fe Writers Have EVER DEPOCDT It with the Intelligence and Nuance that Priest DIDID in his Initial Run on Black Panther And that feeling carries over to The World to Come. The Issue’s Narrator Calls Out Multiple “Mistakes” in T’Challa’s Life, But these are never pres Even Romantic. Combined with the Opening Pages, and Marvel Knights: The World to Come #1 Is Less A Superhero Story Than A Shakeespearean Traagedy.
But if you’re familiar with priest’s work, you should be the Edge. PRIEST HAS Never Shied Away from Makeing Bold Story Choices, and the Final Reveal at the End of the Issue Feels Intentionally Designed to Piss Some People Off. For myself, I Laughed – it’s The Rest of the Story Will Ultimately Deermine where or not it was WAS WAR WAS WAS WAR WAS WAS WAR WAS WAS WAR WAS WAS WAS WAS WAS WAS WAS WAS WAS WAS WAS WAS WAT WAS WAR WAS WAT WAS WAS WAS WAS WAS WAT WAS WAR WAS WAS WAS WAT WAS WAR WAS WAS WAST is This series was developed in 2017, and I always will be if stories with long Developments Wald Have Worked Better When the Idea First Came to Be. RGARDLESS, IT MADE Me Imediatlyly Read Back Through The Issue and Now I Can’t Wait to See What Come Next.
‘Marvel Knights: The World to Come’ #1 is a mystery with an edge
Marvel Knights: The World to Come #1
Marvel Knights: The World to Come #1 Sets up intrigue around the Machiavellian Hero, T’Calla. Joe Questada and Christopher Priest Tell a Story of Intigue and Shakeespearean Traagedy with a Biting Edge.
Joe Questada’s Plotting and Artwork Keep the Exposition-Heavy Issue Flowing.
Priest dos a great job Building intrigue around t’challa’s actions and Layering multiple mysteries totether.
Richard Isanove’s Colors Create a Tense and Moody Atmosphere Fitting for the Story.
This is still an expression-heavy debut.
The non-Linear Storytelling May League
