Wakandan ruler T’Challa aka The Black Panther will be the replacement for Daredevil in the upcoming Marvel series Black Panther: The Man Without Fear written by award winning novelist David Liss, and penciled by Francesco Francavilla. Internets had a field day speculating who would pick up the banner vacated by Matt Murdock, and the answer was revealed on G4′s Attack Of The Show (Olivia Munn hollatchaboi) yesterday afternoon. Perhaps this won’t be the most fan friendly choice, but it does make sense in a purely aesthetic/functional manner. We’ll see.
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The series is written and co-produced by Reginald Hudlin, and premiered this month on Australian children’s channel ABC3. Djimon Hounsou voices Black Panther, king of the African nation of Wakanda. Comics fans will certainly appreciate the John Romita Jr. art used in the intro (or at least, it sure looks like Romita’s art) from the “Who Is the Black Panther?” story arc authored by Hudlin and Romita.
Along with Hounsou as T’Challa, Stan Lee provides the voice of General Wallace, JB Blanc voices The Black Knight and (wait for it…) Batroc, Kerry Washington voices Princess Shuri and Jill Scott provides the voice of X-Men member Storm. The series currently has no air date/network set for the U.S., but let’s keep our fingers crossed, shall we?
Click after the break for the animated clip…