Fun but uneven collection. ( )

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Okarafor's issues, even the Venom one, are great. Had this been a 6 issue run where she could really craft a deep arc, I think it would have been a wonderful book. The "filler" Covington issues feel a bit like a corny Saturday morning cartoon in comparison.

I look foreward to Okorafor's next projects. ( )

Summer 2019 (Hugo Award Nominee 2019 - Graphic Novel);

This one was just a bit too painful in a lot of places.

The jump-skip of scenes between two and three was hard to figure out we were at all still in the same story. The jump skin from three-four being its own story, and five returning us the mystery in 1-2 was just even more disjointing. Then, that part was wrapped up in one issue and there's a singular standalone that has nothing do with Black Panther, himself, but is instead a random, sudden Black Panther interim character who appears and has their own story without ever getting an introduction. Which left this whole graphic novel feeling like a hodgepodge collected in an out of order sequence with non-related stories.

The connections between character are brief and barely touched upon, so I don't feel like (without relying on other comics or the movies) that there was much I could speak of there. I was expecting so much from this and from know it was Nnedi Okorafor (who is, also, nominated for one of the Hugo Novella's as well), but realizing they only wrote a small section while being named the author on this main nomination makes me feel weird about it, too. ( )

If it had been written entirely by Nnedi Okorafor, I would have enjoyed it more. ( )