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It would be a downright disappointing shame to see Black Panther go the way of Wonder Woman in terms of pre-release hype and advertising.Īs an aside, it’s very much worth mentioning that it’s likely not diversity that killed Marvel’s sales, but rather the entire comics industry’s archaic publishing methods.
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We’ve still got about eight months until the movie comes out (next Feburary), but truth be told, now is the time to be building hype for it all over the place. After all, the first trailer for Black Panther dropped just three days ago on the 10th.
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It’s super super disappointing to see Black Panther and Wakanda getting cancelled on the comics side of things while the hype for the movie seems to just be warming up. They’ll get a chance to wrap their story and everything, but that’s it for that title, unfortunately. I don’t know that that’s really true, but that’s what we saw in sales.” Ta-Nehisi Coates, who co-wrote Black Panther and the Crew with poet Yona Harvey, said that poor sales were to blame for the cancellation of their title, which happened only two issues into the series’ debut. That’s what we heard, whether we believe that or not. They didn’t want female characters out there.
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Previously, Marvel VP David Gabriel said that “people didn’t want any more diversity. Sadly, the series was cancelled but I hope to revisit the characters. Though the comics company hasn’t offered any sort of explanation, it’s pretty easy to draw a line from this cancellation to Marvel’s fairly recent knock against “diverse titles.” Writer Roxane Gay confirmed on Twitter yesterday that Marvel cancelled World of Wakanda, the title on which she had been working for some time. Shortly after Black Panther and the Crew got the cancellation order from Marvel, another Black Panther-centric comic gets dropped.