Black Panther In Five Seasons, Season 4: The Devil's Diner

If Black Panther isn't the Marvel movie you're most amped up to see, you're probably either a bigot or you have terrible taste in movies. The trailers are amazeballs. And, finally, after years of there not being very many Black Panther collections available, now most of his solo adventures are in circulation. So I'm cobbling together a five season Netflixization of a Black Panther chronology.

Season three was The Black Panther doing what The Black Panther does best: being a complicated superhero monarch. He got married, he allied himself with the morally superior team of heroes during their Civil War, he and his wife ran the Fantastic Four, they battled zombies, and they overcame that ridiculous Skrull nonsense. Like many superhero/sci-fi legends, we've reached the point where the world needs to think The Black Panther is dead.

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Season Four: The Devil's Diner
​(showrunners: Reginald Hudlin, David Liss)

Episode 1: Panther Protocols
(collected in Black Panther: Deadliest Of The Species)
written by Reginald Hudlin, art by Ken Lashley

A cabal of nefarious world leaders offers T'Challa and Wakanda a place in their upper echelons. They don't take it to well when he refuses. And by "don't take it too well", I mean they kill him and his royal guard, but not before the guard sets him on a plane and sends his corpse to Wakanda. While Storm and the Wakandan elders search for a way to being TChalla back from the dead, a new Panther is chosen. T'Challa's older sister, Shuri. And while her previous life didn't seem to Panther like, she proves to be an absolute badass, completely worthy of the her new title.

Serial 1: Doomwar
(collected in Black Panther: Doomwar)
written by Reginald Hudlin and Jonathan Maberry, art by Ken Lashley, Scott Eaton, Gianluca Gugliotta,‎ Pepe Larraz , and‎ Shawn Moll

Doctor Doom's lust for power, Storm's unwavering faith, Wakanda shutting its borders to foreigners, The Fantastic Four, the X-Men, mind controlling nannites, Doombots, Deadpool. There are a ton of elements at play in this event, plus both Shuri and T'Challa are Black Panthers.  There are a ton of really cool beats to this story, and unlike last season's X-Men crossover, the whole event is fun and well-written.

Doomwar. 4 episodes

Serial 2: Urban Jungle
(collected in Black Panther: The Man Without Fear)
written by David Liss, art by Francesco Francavilla and Jefte Palo

Now that Wakanda is bereft of vibranium, and T'Challa has overcome the elventy billionth coup in the series, he's decided to let Shuri remain the official Black Panther title, while he goes to New York to rediscover himself. Daredevil has recently taken over The Hand during the worst Daredevil comic run in the last thirty years. Disgraced Matt Murdock needs to take some time to find himself, so his associate, Foggy Nelson, falsifies some documents so that T'Challa can play superhero in Hell's Kitchen with an entirely new identity. His first foe: the new Kingpin of Hell's Kitchen, Vlad The Impaler, who ends up being a worthy opponent, but probably won't win Father Of The Year any time soon. Luke Cage and Spider-Man put in some memorable appearances in this episode.

Urban Jungle . 2 episodes

Episode 8: The Great Hunt
(collected in Black Panther: The Man Without Fear)
written by David Liss and Jonathan Maberry, art by Jefte Palo and  Gianluca Gugliotta

Kraven The Hunter has his sites set on Storm, who has come to New York to be with her husband. But she's not the only one in New York, Shuri (still the Black Panther of Wakanda) has tracked down classic villain, Klaw, through The Savage Land and Madripoor before ending up in The Big Apple where she, Spider-Man, and The Black Widow battle a villain who has ascended into being made purely of sound.

Episode 9: Fear & Loathing In Hell's Kitchen
(collected in Black Panther:The Man Without Fear)
written by David Liss, art by Francesco Francavilla and Jefte Palo

Three stories from The Black Panther's time in New York: the unfortunately still timely story of The Hatemonger's brief rise to power in Hell's Kitchen, White Wolf pays T'Challa a visit, and then T'Challa gets caught up in the loopy Spider-Island event. 

Episode 10: The Most Dangerous Man Alive
(collected in Black Panther: The Man Without Fear)
written by David Liss, art by Shawn Martinbrough and Michael Avon Oeming

The real Kingpin, Wilson Fisk, is in charge of The Hand now, and it's up to both Black Panthers, Luke Cage, and Falcon to take him down.

Serial 3: Phoenix Landing
(collected in AvX: Avengers Vs. X-Men)
written by, and with art by a bunch of talented creators who should have known better

I hate this crossover. It's horrifically paced, badly plotted, and stupid. But. We see the reasons behind why T'Challa has his marriage to Storm annulled. 

Phoenix Landing . 3 episodes

Season Four is thirteen episodes with a disappointing season finale.