Wakanda Forever! A Black Panther Review

Black Panther, like many of the MCU headliners before him, is not a character that I was particularly interested in seeing on the big screen. Not that I wasn’t looking forward to it, I just never felt like I needed it.

But the Marvel Cinematic Universe has built it’s success on characters that I’ve not needed to see on screen. I mean, if you stopped me back in 2008, and told me the movies that I’d be rushing to see over and over again for the next decade, the only title that wouldn’t surprise me would be Spider-Man. Love me some Spider-Man (of course, back in 2008, I was still riding high off the Sam Raimi films). I didn’t care about Iron Man, or Captain America, or Thor. I didn’t even know who the hell the Guardians of the Galaxy were, and I thought Ant-Man was a joke. I was a fan of the big names, like Spidey and the X-Men, but I didn’t really care about seeing all the others. Not before Iron Man.

After Iron Man, things changed. Look at what Marvel has built with the characters that were once considered “second tier.” They’ve built an empire on the characters I wasn’t familiar with, and through that, they’ve made me a fan of everything they’ve built. I’ve said before that the MCU is my new Harry Potter; it is the franchise I look forward to the most nowadays. I don’t care what they want to do next, I’ll be in the theater opening day. I even look…