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Granta 110: Sex

John Freeman

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Sex is our oldest obsession. For as long as we've been doing it, it has been used as a mark of...

Saint's Blood

Sebastien de Castell

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'High energy, highly unique, swashbuckling-cop-epic-noir story. Buy it. BUY IT NOW' Sam Sykes The...

The Troy: Last War of the Heroic Age

Si Sheppard, Jose Daniel Cabrera Pena and Rocio Espin Pinar

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When Paris, prince of Troy, ran off with Helen, wife of the king of Sparta, it launched the greatest...

The Wake

Paul Kingsnorth

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A post-apocalyptic novel set in 1066 - unlike anything else you will read this year...Everyone knows...

Handbook of Japanese Mythology

Michael Ashkenazi

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Japanese gods, too numerous to count, are known collectively as yaoyorozu-no-kamigami-the eight...

In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance

Armando Maggi

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In its interpretation of Latin and Greek culture, Christianity contends that Satan is behind all...

Joe Goodhart (27 KP) rated Black Panther Vol. 1: A Nation Under Our Feet in Books

Nov 30, 2020

So what can I say? I liked it, yes. A bit dry in spots, felt like a bit of a slow burn in the very beginning, but really quite liked how Coates wrapped up the first arc of his run. Only thing not likable in this collection was the Jonathan Hickman-written material from NEW AVENGERS 18, 21, and 24 (if wasn't for this inclusion, I would have given it 5 Stars). Other than that, good stuff, great handling of the socio-political aspects of Wakanda. Looking forward to starting the 4th volume this week!

One concluding thought I want to put out there.. Don't go into Coates' BP run expecting a Marvel "paint by numbers" superhero book. This series is so much, offering a solid interpretation of the character. Coates has incorporated so much of what is going on in the world today, bringing into the comic, as well as stirring in Wakanda's rich historical background as well as the Wakanda pantheon of gods! If you go in with the approach I am recommending, you, too, will love Coates' BLACK PANTHER run!