Ahead of the hotly-anticipated Marvel Studios movie, Marvel is set to launch the new comic book series Rise of the Black Panther from io9 senior writer Evan Narcisse, Black Panther writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and artist Paul Renaud, which is set in the world of Coates’ landmark Black Panther book, this new series will tell the story of Young T’Challa and his lineage, showing how the world learns about the wondrous nation of Wakanda for the first time.
The 6-issue run will also explore the reign of T’Chaka, the king whose death changed Wakanda’s history, and the life of T’Challa’s birth mother – someone T’Challa never had the chance to know. Narcisse will be making his comics debut with this series, and each issue will feature a painted cover by Black Panther artist Brian Stelfreeze. The series is set to launch in January 2018.
