Black Panther: The Young Prince

Monica visits her sister’s grave in a cemetery in Georgia. While she thinks of the summers she and Angela shared as children, T’Challa waits in the branches above, watching as a group of cloaked men approach Monica. He listens as they discuss their plan—to strike at Monica with their serrated knives, which they call the tongue of the dragon. T’Challa leaps from the trees as they close in on Monica, and they fight against them. Amid this clash, a car arrives, and T’Challa throws one of the men through its windshield. A man jumps from the car, punching one of the cloaked men. Afterward, he introduces himself as Kevin Trueblood, a reporter from The Georgia Sun. Mr. Trueblood explains to Monica that he believes Angela was murdered. Angela came to him weeks before, informing him that she believed the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was buying property through the real estate agency she worked for. Just as she was nearing evidence, she died of an apparent death by suicide.

Though Mr. Trueblood believes Monica’s attackers are from the KKK, T’Challa discovers that one is a Black man. They begin to doubt what organization these men belong to and drive them to the sheriff’s office in Mr.