Review: Secret Invasion: Black Panther
As such, we don’t really get any insightful peeks into the psyches of these characters that will emotionally invest us in their continued survival (or in the Black Panther’s case, we were rooting for him anyway), so all we’re left with is some moments of the Black Panther and his Wakandan soldiers acting like hard dudes, a couple of twists (one of which is kind of horrifying when you think about it, but horrifying things just kind of happen when a full-scale invasive assault is on your doorstep), and a whole lot of fighting — which, you know, is perfect for a fight comic.
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Another thing from Geoff’s post I found salient:
Make no mistake, this is a fight comic, pure and simple. Where I think it differs from something like a war comic is that war comics usually concern themselves with making the audience with a group of soldiers by looking into their motivations or reasons they’re in this war so that we are provided with an emotional stake in their survival.
I don’t know much about fight comics in general, but I think this is a compelling point. It seems as though fight comics set in the context of war have a way of both trivializing and intensifying the overall conflict, turning a war into a two-man fight, albeit one with significant stakes (there also is mad precedent for this in the classical epic tradition).
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Another thing from Geoff’s post I found salient:...know much about fight comics
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