Black Panther animated series coming

[Raph's Girl]

http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/04/17...eaping-to-bet/
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...&cs=1&nid=2562

Marvel Comics has signed a deal to turn one of its superheroes, the Black Panther, into a primetime animated series for BET, starting early next year.

BET made the announcement at its upfront presentation in New York as the highlight of a batch of new series being readied for the 2008-09 season, under the supervision of Reginald Hudlin, president of entertainment for BET.

Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Black Panther first appeared in Fantastic Four #52 (July 1966). As most readers of superhero comics probably know, he’s T’Challa, the king of the technologically advanced African kingdom of Wakanda who fights crime on the side.

Reginald Huldin, BET’s president of entertainment, currently writes the Black Panther comic series.

No other details about the animated series have been announced.

With the "Wolverine and the X-men" series coming out next year as well there had better be crossovers. Or at least cameo appearances by Storm.

[Ninjinister]

Looks like I have something other than repeats of What's Happening to watch on BET

[AquaParade]

SO excited for this...I wonder what kinda tone it'll have. Kinda weird having a cartoon made specifically for BET...I hate BET...and no, I am the farthest thing from racest, but that channel does nothing but separate us more. Sorry, thats for another thread, another day.

[ZariusTwo]

Hudlin is producing this?

I'm not sold, his run on Black Panther is a commerical and critical flop

[Drtooth]

Okay... I read Black Panther and thought the wrong thing. No, not that Pink guy. That hate group.

[GK Punk]

Originally Posted by Drtooth

That hate group.

Or maybe the comic book character.

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by Drtooth

Okay... I read Black Panther and thought the wrong thing. No, not that Pink guy. That hate group.

Hate group?? Not nessisarily. They started out as a Civil Rights group, just some members went other directions.

And incidentally they were actually featured in a recent issue of the Black Panther comic...course they were Skrulls...but they were good Skrulls who lived on a planet based on earth history (kinda like that one ep of TOS called A Piece of the Action). There was even a Malcom X and MLK Skrull.

[DrSpengler]

If it isn't just half an hour of "DAMN CRACKAZ!!" and not all the villains are white, I'll give it a try.

But this is BET we're talking about, so I don't have my hopes up.

$10 bucks says LeSean is involved in some way.

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by DrSpengler

If it isn't just half an hour of "DAMN CRACKAZ!!" and not all the villains are white, I'll give it a try.

But this is BET we're talking about, so I don't have my hopes up.

$10 bucks says LeSean is involved in some way.

No.. most of BP's enemies are black...there ARE some white ones....but they're mostly black or anthro folks (like Solomon Prey who kinda resembled Man Bat or Black Dragon...who's litterally a dragon).

Also most of his enemies are political. Hate groups, racists, ect.

Except for when he's teaming up with the X-Men (he's married to Storm in the comics), Avengers (he's a member), Fantastic Four (He lead it recently while Reed and Sue were off on a second honeymoon on some moon of saturn).

Now the question is how they're gonna do all this and who'll be BP?? Will it be T'Chaka or T'Challa?? Will they show Wakandan history??

But Politics will be involved since T'Challa is the king of Wakanda. I mean heck Pres Bush and Fidel Castro both attended T'Challa and Storm's wedding! Course so did Oprah...

[ToTheNines]

Couple points to make.

1. As far as black Marvel superhero's go, give me Luke Cage or Blade over the BP any day.

2. If such an obscure character as the Black Panther can get his own show, where's Green Lantern: TAS, or one for The Flash (who has an extremly under-rated rouge's gallery) for god's sakes. I know they're assuming that anything with "Marvel" attached to it is gonna sell and that UA 2 gave him some popularity... but not in the mainstream, no one know's who he is and he's basically an African Batman anyways.

[cqb101]

BET? This is going to be horrible.

[Spike Spiegel]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

Couple points to make.

1. As far as black Marvel superhero's go, give me Luke Cage or Blade over the BP any day.

2. If such an obscure character as the Black Panther can get his own show, where's Green Lantern: TAS, or one for The Flash (who has an extremly under-rated rouge's gallery) for god's sakes. I know they're assuming that anything with "Marvel" attached to it is gonna sell and that UA 2 gave him some popularity... but not in the mainstream, no one know's who he is and he's basically an African Batman anyways.

I kind of feel the same way...I really think the Flash needed his own show, especially after the successful interpretations of him in the Justice League shows.

I myself am African American, but I also feel that there are better channels than BET to choose from. What about SPIKE or Sci-Fi? BET has the tendency to turn some the best material into crap that makes those certain stereotypes appear more true than false, which is the opposite of what they are supposedly trying to do in the first place...

[Raph's Girl]

Trailer's up for the Black Panther series premiering in 09. It's um...er...interesting....

http://www.newsarama.com/common/medi...black_panther2

[Ninjinister]

Okay, I've lost my interest.

[KROW]

Originally Posted by Raph's Girl

Trailer's up for the Black Panther series premiering in 09. It's um...er...interesting....

http://www.newsarama.com/common/medi...black_panther2

Is that Romita, Jr.'s artwork? If so, that brings to mind the old Captain America cartoon where the animation looked like cardboard. Weird.

[cqb101]

Originally Posted by KROW

Is that Romita, Jr.'s artwork? If so, that brings to mind the old Captain America cartoon where the animation looked like cardboard. Weird.

Yes it is.

And that show looks absolutely horendous, as I was expecting. What is Marvel thinking?

[ZariusTwo]

An absolute embarrasment for the company in light of their big projects like Spidey and X-Men

[AquaParade]

Seriously, what the hell was that? It might be an almost interesting direction if that animation was so...damn...cheap looking. I'll probably still give it a try, I am interested in the character and there is still potential, if that trailer isn't a final representation.

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by Raph's Girl

Trailer's up for the Black Panther series premiering in 09. It's um...er...interesting....

http://www.newsarama.com/common/medi...black_panther2

I just wiped my ass with that trailer.

[Spike Spiegel]

It's like a badly done flash cartoon, or something you'd see on Newgrounds.

I always liked JRJR's art style, but seriously, that looks like crap.