Good Idea/Bad Idea
So according to this link, there's going to be a Black Panther cartoon. This SHOULD be totally awesome, as T'Challa is probably my second favorite (living) Marvel hero after the Beast. Unfortunately, it's going to be on BET. I'm of the opinion that Aaron MacGruder of The Boondocks is right--that today's bitches-and-drugs-and-money hip hop culture is incredibly toxic to modern society and that BET is a cesspit of cultural atrocity. (I really, REALLY want to see the banned Boondocks episodes, where BET is portrayed as actively working to destroy African-American life and the President (who is a black woman) complains that "the other day I saw three (n-word)s READING! One of them was SMILING!"
To make things worse, Reginald Hudlin, the head of BET's entertainment division, writes the current Black Panther series. And it's freaking awful...the polar opposite of the cerebral, intense 1998-2003 series by Priest, Bob Almond and Sal Velluto. I can't even bring myself to read it on marvel.com, where it's essentially free since I pay for the whole service by the year. Meanwhile, comic creator and animation writer Dwayne McDuffie (who was the story editor of Justice League/Justice League Unlimited for four of its five seasons, created Static Shock and Damage Control) just finished an awesome run on Fantastic Four wherein the Panther and Storm figured heavily. I want this show to be great. I want it to be so great I can't not-watch BET just because most of their programming is evil. But somehow I figure it's going to turn out closer to the Mary Sue Panther who's better at building power armor than Iron Man or Dr. Doom, can teach Pulsar how to use her powers despite having no energy manipulation talents to speak of, and married Storm for no good reason than the brilliant-but-fallible manipulator who thinks so many steps ahead of the rest of the world that he continually drives everyone who cares about him away with bizarre Machiavellian strategies and ruthless logic.
To make things worse, Reginald Hudlin, the head of BET's entertainment division, writes the current Black Panther series. And it's freaking awful...the polar opposite of the cerebral, intense 1998-2003 series by Priest, Bob Almond and Sal Velluto. I can't even bring myself to read it on marvel.com, where it's essentially free since I pay for the whole service by the year. Meanwhile, comic creator and animation writer Dwayne McDuffie (who was the story editor of Justice League/Justice League Unlimited for four of its five seasons, created Static Shock and Damage Control) just finished an awesome run on Fantastic Four wherein the Panther and Storm figured heavily. I want this show to be great. I want it to be so great I can't not-watch BET just because most of their programming is evil. But somehow I figure it's going to turn out closer to the Mary Sue Panther who's better at building power armor than Iron Man or Dr. Doom, can teach Pulsar how to use her powers despite having no energy manipulation talents to speak of, and married Storm for no good reason than the brilliant-but-fallible manipulator who thinks so many steps ahead of the rest of the world that he continually drives everyone who cares about him away with bizarre Machiavellian strategies and ruthless logic.