Or, maybe its some bizarre capitulation to “the way its always been done;” Panther has never had any tech weapons, and his costume has never been bullet proof. Why start now?
Black Panther has nothing to prove to anybody. He’s a king and an inventor and a scientist. A scholar, a brilliant detective The guy who showed up in FANTASTIC FOUR #52 was definitely _not_ Tarzan. He wasn’t clueless or uneducated. He used a _lot_ more gadgets than I do in the current series. He was duplicitous, mysterious, dangerous, ruthless, humorous, and violent. I’m not sure which guy my critics are talking about, but I tend to think the Panther I’m writing is more in line with Stan and Jack’s vision that Doormat Man (TM) who has traditionally been the colorless, humorless, often clueless guy standing in the back row of the Avengers class picture, or showing up for the odd guest-shot to fight *yawn* Klaw again, the guy who got beat up and dragged more often than I can mention. If THAT is the guy my critics are longing for, I have to wonder why.
