Black Panther is so close to releasing proper, and well, it's fair to say that the excitement's spreading everywhere. It's a momentous event in the superhero calendar, and with Ryan Coogler's film garnering praise right across the board, it looks as though Marvel have yet another critical success on their hands (not that we'd have expected otherwise).
The film itself, like other Marvel productions, also offers a potential avenue for fans of the character to really get invested in his actual comic books. Since being introduced in 1966 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, T'Challa has always been right at the centre of the Marvel Universe; he's one of the publisher's foremost superheroes, boasting an intellect to rival Reed Richards', a skill-set that ranks alongside the very best fighters on the planet and the kind of personality that's impossible not to get behind.
He’s a leader in every sense of the word, and while comics themselves are notoriously difficult to get into, the Panther’s bibliography is among the most accessible - and one of the best - out there.
What better way to get into the festivities than by reading his greatest hits?
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
