Throughout history, Wakanda was a kingdom walled-off to the world, thriving in secret. But under T’Challa’s rule, the Wakandans’ resources and technology are now available to other nations. Even nations such as Rudyarda, a former apartheid state. Some disagree with the decision to offer aid to a place with such a tortured past, but the Black Panther believes the people of Rudyarda shouldn’t pay for the sins of its Colonizers forever, and his rule is absolute. That is, until a former Black Panther is resurrected from the ancestral plane. Then, everything is uncertain. Because as everyone knows: there can only be one Black Panther in Wakanda. T’Chaka’s return to the land of the living divides reason from nature, a ruler from his allies, and T’Challa from his family. But as T’Challa—along with Shuri, Okoye, and Misty Knight— search for the cause, mysterious forces conspire to subvert his authority from without and within. Other dead men come to life. Old grudges find their way into the light. And when catastrophe strikes, a son must reckon with his father’s sins while a new generation of hero rises.

Publication Year: 2021