r/blackpanther

Aight, so boom. I got it in my head how Storm never had any pictures of her as a child until she met her grandparents, who only have pictures of her until she was six. So there's a gap between ages 6 and roughly 20-22, when she joined the X-Men. (Lifedream 2025 places her age at 30.)

Anyway, in my head canon, the camera that started all the trouble in the Dickey miniseries (Storm #1, 2006) was eventually lost and found and pawned and etc. It lands in the hands of the daughter of a recently deceased photographer, who replaced the old memory card and never took it the old out of his camera bag. Most of the pictures on the card were corrupted after so many years, of course, but three of them remained, and the daughter managed to get word all the way to T'Challa. You can see two of the pics (the third one is the mongoose pic).

All art by jennipond; source is here. *edit* Timelapse!

Each of the midnight series have gone different forms of horror incorporated into the main story. Spider-Man is body horror and mutations, x men is vampires and religious elements, fantastic is cult and cosmic horror. I think for black panther we can go into African folklore and monster horror.

My pitch would be after a remote village of wakanda was ravaged and were taken prisoners due to the young princes mistake to trust an injured Jabari soldier. Chief tchaka on his death bed asked his disgraced twin children to go back an reclaim thier honor, by going into a dark forest to get the heart of the most dangerous creature in mythical forest riddled with monsters, magical cults and fears made physical demons . To restore thier honor, tchalla and shuri must hunt and get the heart of the black panther.

It would expand African mythology and also have a more magical element to black panther rather than tech .

What do you think