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Black Panther II - A better Black Panther movie but too stuffed with stuff

I really like Black Panther in the comic books. I wasn't ever a big comic book reader but there was something about this mysterious outsider that drew me in to his stories. He wasn't one of my favorites - Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Johnny Storm held that title but his story was so different than anything else in comic books at the time. He was definitely the only black character I remember ever reading. Fast forward more years than I care to count and I saw the first Black Panther movie. I really liked it. It stayed true to the source material while taking out most of the problematic stuff. Before it came out I worried how non-comic books fans would react but the response was overwhelming. Discussion of Black Panther and Wakanda took over media discussions for well over a month once the movie released. It was almost too positive and I got that little annoyed. It was like people were afraid to say bad things about it. Representation has long been a problem in Hollywood and tha