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Eyes of Wakanda feels like fanfiction turned into Marvel history

A man wearing a golden lion mask with a white mane, a golden shawl, and intricate leather armor. To the left, the man is blanked by a pale woman viking and a man wearing white robes to his. To the right, the man is flanked by a bare chested man with a flowing garment that comes up to his abdomen and another man wearing a full suit of tribal armor.

Ryan Coogler’s first Black Panther feature set itself apart by pushing audiences to think about how comic book heroes and villains would fit into a world shaped by horrors like the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Black Panther and its 2022 sequel, Wakanda Forever, used their characters to comment on our reality’s complicated and oftentimes ugly history as it relates to race and geopolitical conquest. And the films were so successful at the box office that Marvel made a point of locking in Coogler’s Proximity Media production outfit for a multiyear deal to develop new projects for Disney Plus.

It was from that deal that Marvel’s Ironheart series …

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Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/tv-reviews/715437/eyes-of-wakanda-review

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