Let’s get this out of the way: Black Panther is worth all of the hype; go see it.

Director Ryan Coogler has created a unique installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe; the super-hero action, dramatic confrontations, and ideological character juxtaposition, against the backdrop of the ongoing Marvel narrative is present and forefront. They have created an Afro-Futuristic epic that is intelligent, complex, and filled with so much commentary, blatant and Meta, that DZI would have to give me a few months to unpack it all. There was a taste of the potential of both T’Challa, as Black Panther, and his homeland of Wakanda during Captain America: Civil War. Although we anticipated the wonder and spectacle, we are wowed by the grandeur of the film.

Director Ryan Coogler with Chadwick Boseman, as T’Challa

Chadwick Boseman is charged with the gargantuan task of portraying a man of many simultaneous emotions and…