Mr. Priest, you *can* go home again...

**Hombre** · 01-02-2006, 04:23 AM

There are a number of dangling plots from Priest's small body of work as writer at Marvel comics that I would like him to be able to follow up on.

T'Challa, the Black Panther, developed an incurable brain aneurysm and witnessed the death of his long suffering, yet joyful, future self at the hands of one of his rival chieftains, and thus fell into a paralyzing depression as Killmonger still technically retained the title of chieftain of the Black Panther cult.

In the meantime, Officer Kevin 'Kasper' Cole briefly wore the Black Panther costume in order to confront the powerful 66 Bridges gang, which is apparently run by his own father with another son, Triage, a possible half-brother Kasper doesn't know to exist, both Africans who maintain a strong connection with their tribal custom and heritage.

Some time later, the Falcon clashed head-on with elements of the U.S. Intelligence community, increasingly entering a territory where the conventional definition of heroism couldn't apply anymore and questioning his own identity in the process.

Which, come to think of it, is what all of Priest's work is about, bridging the gap between the real world and the comic world in a way that uses the medium for all its potential, constantly juxtaposing tragedy and drama with funny and exhilarating plot twists, redefining the scope of super hero fiction the way Claremont, Simonson and Miller did before him.

Only Priest can tie up those loose ends, and I, for one, would like him to have a chance to do so.

**abyss** · 01-02-2006, 08:40 AM

I second this!

**Crash-Man** · 01-02-2006, 08:43 AM

Join the line, man. Join the line.

**static** · 01-02-2006, 09:51 AM

Please Please Please take Black Panther back from the horrible Hudlin and make him a great read again. Reggie Hudlin is the worst writer at marvel and he is destroying my favorite character! Black Panther marrying Storm??? i tried my best to buy this book and be happy but it was honestly horrible! i was so damn disapointed! i wanted to love it! this man doesnt know how to write for crap and needs to be booted ala the disaster that was Chuck Austen (*shudder*)

**abyss** · 01-02-2006, 10:37 AM

LOL...im with static..he is the new chuck austen...but Marvel really needs to collect Priest's Black Panther in trade form...I jsut picked up the first two trades and sadly im left wanting sooooooooooo much more....but I can't :(

**Crash-Man** · 01-02-2006, 10:48 AM

Christopher Priest planned to have T'Challa marry Storm eventually as well.

**Loki** · 01-02-2006, 03:21 PM

Originally Posted by Crash-Man

Christopher Priest planned to have T'Challa marry Storm eventually as well.

Yes, but after building up to it over several issues. This current plan sounds more akin to me meeting up with an old flame I had one date with in my teens, and have occasionally bumped into since, and suddenly out of the blue we decide to get married.

I have no problem with T'Challa hooking up with Ororo, but I'd expect a few years of dating and romance before they tied the knot.

**Brian R** · 01-02-2006, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by Loki

Yes, but after building up to it over several issues. This current plan sounds more akin to me meeting up with an old flame I had one date with in my teens, and have occasionally bumped into since, and suddenly out of the blue we decide to get married.

I have no problem with T'Challa hooking up with Ororo, but I'd expect a few years of dating and romance before they tied the knot.

Thanks a lot man, this sums up my feelings exactly. Its not that these two people getting hitched is so impossible, its the manner in which its happening that just doesnt work at all.

**Frank** · 01-02-2006, 06:17 PM

Priest should have his own super-hero team. People have been clamoring for the lack of second-tier characters and classic Avengers members, he could be the perfect guy to do this(with Falcon in it).

**Expletive Deleted** · 01-02-2006, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by Frank

Priest should have his own super-hero team. People have been clamoring for the lack of second-tier characters and classic Avengers members, he could be the perfect guy to do this(with Falcon in it).

Yeah . . . let's say a team with Rhodey, a relative of the black Captain America, a replacement Black Panther, and a mutant kid from that same title . . . that'll work . . .

**streator** · 01-02-2006, 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by Expletive Deleted

Yeah . . . let's say a team with Rhodey, a relative of the black Captain America, a replacement Black Panther, and a mutant kid from that same title . . . that'll work . . .

seconded. i have the entire (7 issue) crew series, and discounting lack of promotion/whatever the book still read a bit unenjoyable as a whole.
nice bennett art, though.

and wasn't danny just a normal thief with a gravitational belt or something? i don't remember him being a mutant...

**hondobrode** · 01-03-2006, 11:50 AM

The Crew was one of the best reads Marvel put out since...... Black Panther !

I thought it was also Bennett's best work to date, too.

**The Mirrorball Man** · 01-03-2006, 11:58 AM

I've read quite a lot of books written by Christopher Priest, and I didn't like any of them. I really enjoyed the rants he wrote on his website, though.

**The Wayner** · 01-03-2006, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by Expletive Deleted

Yeah . . . let's say a team with Rhodey, a relative of the black Captain America, a replacement Black Panther, and a mutant kid from that same title . . . that'll work . . .

Definitely what we need! Heck, a black superhero team was even mentioned in passing in BP #11.

**tjarvis** · 01-03-2006, 07:25 PM

I don't even think Priest would be interested in doing a black super team per say. From the few interviews I've read of his, it seems like he was kind of getting bummed out just being "the black writer who writes black characters."

When you look at his early work, he got to write a lot of fun characters like Spidey, Wolverine, Conan, etc. He wasn't limited in his options because some characters were white, and others black. Then he got pigeon holed and stereotyped.

When Captain America and the Falcon came out, he said he was most excited at the chance to write Captain America. It was his hope that doing a good job with Cap would remind people that he's a writer, not just a black writer.

Not that he probably wouldn't love to get a crack at T'Challa, but I think his next job is going to be surprising. I kind of wish he had gotten the X-Men assignment instead of Milligan. Or maybe put Priest on Marvel Knights: Spider-Man.