Conceptualizing the Black Panther, Cont'd
Ta-Nehisi just tweeted this out and it’s pretty sick:
"Panther power on the hour from the rebel to you..." Alex Ross variant for Black Panther #1. pic.twitter.com/sQeCYioCSO
— Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) December 15, 2015
@tanehisicoates Are those COPS!!!?!
— Rod TBGWT (@rodimusprime) December 15, 2015
It’s the variant cover for TNC’s forthcoming “Black Panther” series with artist Brian Stelfreeze, whose early sketches were featured in Notes. In case you missed Stelfreeze’s cover:

The release is now set for April:
“Ta-Nehisi, Brian, colorist Laura Martin, letterer Joe Sabino, assistant editor Chris Robinson, and I have been working on this series for months already, so we’re happy to have a launch date as we’re all anxious to start getting this book out in front of people,” series editor Wil Moss told Marvel.com. “We may be biased, but we think it's something pretty special!”
Elsewhere in comics:
Ladies and gentlemen @emilynussbaum one of the great critics, and great magazine stylists, of our time. Wow. https://t.co/3E1CKAKG6M
— Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) December 15, 2015