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Killmonger Mini-Series by Bryan Edward Hill and Juan Ferreyra Takes Inspiration From Black Panther Movie

Published Mon, 17 Sep 2018 12:23:10 -0500

Last updated Mon, 17 Sep 2018 13:43:03 -0500

Everyone loved Erik Killmonger in the Black Panther movie, portrayed by. Quite a few people in the audience were on his side. Now the Marvel comics character on which he was based is getting their own comic book mini-series by Bryan Edward Hill and Juan Ferreyra. The five-part Killmonger series will go on sale in December…

Says Hill, to Abraham Reisman for Vulture in a Marvel PR arranged interview/announcement.

"I wanted to explore the choices and the failures that lead a person to dedicate their life to revenge, and how that happens. Because with Erik, I feel like it's really a tragedy. It's a story of a guy who was failed a lot by Wakanda in certain ways, by the people he met outside of Wakanda, by his own conscience in other ways, and I wanted to paint a portrait of that. Because to me the iconic fight between Erik Killmonger and T'Challa is tragic. It's something that shouldn't happen. It's a conflict that's borne from a tragic misunderstanding and a young man who was violently taken from his home."

"I can say that the events of the stories for the most part begin with Erik graduating from MIT. Like all stories, it begins with him having a fork in the road in front of him. He's a young man who could have a successful and peaceful life if he could just put away his desire for revenge. In this case he's really focused on [villain Ulysses] Klaw and the men that took him from Wakanda, and also punishing Wakanda itself for its failures. We begin the story with him making that choice to step away from one potential future and step into another that speaks to more of his darker nature. For me, that's what a tragedy is, really. Something isn't tragic unless you can see a way that it could have worked out better. … It's about a fall of a person that should have been something much better than what he wound up being, and the story is about how he winds up in that place."

Here's the cover.