Focusing on the artwork side of things I was really pleasantly surprised. Obviously this comic had a lot more consistency then the Civil War mishmash, but it was just overall must more interesting then your average marvel comic. As I always mention, I love cross hatching, so the line quality in particular really made me weak in the knees. Combined with a few of the plot lines I was actually really reminded of Preacher of all things, but I'll get into that later.

Overall the color scheme is a little too drab imho, but this is mostly compared to the promotional material for the upcoming movie. The coloring and shading for some of the dark skin characters are much better then other black panther comics. Whoever came up with the character designs seems to have been a little too into loinclothes, which the penciler keeps drawing being blown in rather suggestive ways.

Moving onto the writing, without bringing too much plot into it, I continue to enjoy Hudlin a lot. I am open to the idea Priest might be even better yet, but I have yet to get my hands on anything by him yet. In this particular origin story Hudlin not only highlights what makes the Black Panther unique in the Marvel universe, he also honestly takes on colonialism rather deftly, including a vast catholic conspiracy to destroy Africa - see previous comment about how this reminded me a bit of Preacher. This rather fun action comic also includes the guest appearances of a very frustrated Shuri, the Black Knight, the Ebony sword and zombie USA military.

Not perfectly perfect but a solid 4/5 stars for pushing the mold and doing it pretty well to boot. Could have used more empowered female characters!