This third and final installment in the 'Nation Under our Feet' portion of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Black Panther run is the best of the three volumes, but I still feel mostly lost amid the mythos that is Black Panther's world. This is largely on me as I am not an active Marvel Comics reader and were I a fan, I likely would know more of what's going on.

The gist of the series is that T'Challa returns home to a country broken my outside forces, and though those forces are driven out, the remaining pieces of Wakanda are rebellious and dissatisfied with his rule. This third volume sees a resolution to that rebellion, and I think it is successful in that ending even if there is still unrest past the final pages. I like T'Challa as a character, and I think the rest of the cast is also well written - and what's more the problems presented to these characters are real, and they are conflicts that those of us paying attention to the world can sympathize with. My problem with this volume is that everything seems to move too fast. I believe Coates has a story to tell here but not enough space to tell it. This is maybe what happens when someone accustomed to writing novels jumps into a smaller space.

I'd still like to read more of Coates' Black Panther work, but I fear I will never be knowledgeable about what's going on in this Marvel world.