Investigating a sudden outburst of strange, mutated wild animals in Africa, the X-Men - led by Storm - come face to face with something worse: mutant bio-organisms the likes of which the world has never seen. The key to unraveling their secret - and defeating them - may lie in that region's protector - the Black Panther! Collects X-Men #175-176 and Black Panther #8-9.
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
From School Library Journal
Grade 7 Up–This story combines two issues of X-Men and two of Black Panther. It seems that someone is mutating wild animals in the African region of Nigand, and the X-Men must investigate. Black Panther, a popular but usually elusive Marvel character who makes his home in Africa, is also investigating the strange happenings. Storm accompanies the X-Men and the sparks fly between her and Black Panther. The X-Men team is unusually bumbling in this volume; still, the plot keeps moving. Throw in an evil scientist who wants to take over the world and his übersmart talking apes and you have a clichéd story that is still enjoyable. The romantic tension between Storm and Black Panther is sealed with a kiss on the last page. The possibility of a future story arc involving these two characters adds to the appeal of Wild Kingdom.–Melissa T. Jenvey, New York Public Library
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Decent book; but it leads into one of the most poorly planned arcs ever,
By
This review is from: X-Men/Black Panther: Wild Kingdom (Paperback)
As far as graphic novels go, this one has good artwork and dialogue, I love Larocca's pencils on it, much as I love his pencils in any other X-title I've read. It also has an interesting team-up of the X-Men team from the second series (i.e., "Golgotha" going forward, with Rogue, Iceman, Gambit, Havok, and Polaris), Storm from the XSE taking an uncharacteristic break from Uncanny, and - surprise! - the Black Panther, one of the most obscure characters in the Marvel Universe.
Someone's mutating animals into...well, mutants. Think "The Island of Dr. Moreau" with maniacal chimps, crossed with a little bit of George Orwell's "Animal Farm," and you have the plot. It's contrived but entertaining. Emma Frost detects odd mutant activity in the African region of Niganda (interestingly enough, located very close to Wakanda). She sends Havok's team to check it out, and Storm accompanies them, hinting that she has a "history" with T'Challa, the Black Panther. That history is actually noted (very, very briefly) in Marvel Team-Up, as well as Black Panther #26, according to a recent article on X-Axis. The current miniseries "Storm and the Black Panther" by Eric Jerome Dickey details this "history" at length. The X-Men arrive in Niganda to find mutilated corpses, grotesquely altered killer crocodiles, a savage man-eating lion, and a scientist with a penchant for plotting the overthrow of the government with the aid of his intellectually enhanced apes. There's a lot going on in this book, considering the story arc in its original printing only bundled together two issues of X-Men and two issues of Black Panther. (these days Marvel TPBs bundle together an average of five issues each). Polaris is kidnapped and held hostage; considering how powerful she is, its surprising that she was captured at all. Storm's seeming, tentative relationship with Logan is put on hold (again, sigh), even though it has developed somewhat in the pages of "Uncanny" since Marvel's Reload event. There's one optimistic moment where Logan tells Storm "Guess I've always wanted to be someone's mutant in shining armor." But that was it. We see that her relationship with T'Challa that she previously had was "complicated," but we don't really see why she wants to rekindle it, it's not well-defined by Milligan or Hudlin, in my opinion. It's also unfair that T'Challa gets to kiss the girl, sorry for the spoiler, but I was disappointed by it. Other highlights are the interesting bit of animosity between Storm and Havok, since Storm refuses to follow Havok's orders as team leader; and Havok's brief scuffle with Emma over how effective he is as leader compared to Cyclops. Polaris and Havok are revisiting their relationship again in the wake of the mess that Austen made of it during his run on X-Men. I breathed a sigh of relief about that. By the end of the story, we find Storm planning to stay in Africa to "help who she can there," which makes little sense, in context of her being the leader of the XSE. This will also feed into the upcoming "Bride of the Panther" arc by Reginald Hudlin this summer. Even though Marvel is still good at conveying character's emotions and depth, they need to work on their plots and stick to continuity established back when X-Men books were still relatively young titles. Get this one if you are a completist, but skip it if you hate seeing a great heroine (Storm) being misused. Again.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pleasantly suprised,
By
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: X-Men/Black Panther: Wild Kingdom (Paperback)
Quality of paper, binding was better than expected, and the artwork was as good or better than other Marvel books. Pretty good, in other words.
The story was interesting - I am a fan of the X-men and SpiderMan books and liked the X men appearance, but liked how BP held his own against them. The political references may be above the heads of some younger readers, but added a subtle understory. That, along with the romantic tension between BP and Storm, created a pretty intriguing story.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
extremely disappointing,
By spacedog "spacedog7" (boston, ma United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: X-Men/Black Panther: Wild Kingdom (Paperback)
i'm a huge fan of milligan's x-statix and his enigma series, so even though i was disappointed in milligan's "golgotha" arc i gave this a shot. even that wasn't as bad as this. the characters continue to be immature and whiny, and the tensions between rogue and gambit's relationship and the iceman/polaris/havok triangle are tacked on. the humanoid animals/mad scientist thing is incredibly old. storm is a caricature of herself, and milligan didn't give me any reason to be intrigued or interested in the black panther, who i knew nothing about. his usual witticisms and quips, while they could've been entertaining in another book, sound completely wrong coming from these characters. skip this one.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
