Why It Bothers Me That The Link For Black Panther in course resources sends me to batman #600

It’s not a huge deal. I haven’t lost any sleep at night deep in thought about it. It doesn’t haunt my every waking moment, every breath I make, every move I make, every step I take, it’s not watching me - but it still bothers me. Whenever I click the link to course resources, I dread going to the week four section of the page, because I know I’m setting myself up for disappointment.

Here’s why …

I’m a big fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. My love for Marvel’s loosely based comic adaptations began in 2012 when a friend invited me to watch the Avengers. Up to this point I had never seen any of the other Marvel films, but even in spite of the inability to understand the movies references, I didn’t care. The Avengers is a fantastic stand alone story, I hold it near and dear to my heart, and it is probably my favorite movie of all time.
From that point onward I was a Marvel fan. I don’t watch all of the movies they’ve released given how many there are, but I’ll watch any I am interested in. This lead me to seeing Captain America: Civil War in theaters with the same friend as before. Thoughts on the movie aside (I like it), Civil War introduced me to the Black Panther. While I wasn’t a fan of his character in Civil War, I still saw the Black Panther movie when it came out in early 2018. Was that mostly because of that incredible, Kendrick Lamar curated, soundtrack? Yes. But also it seemed like I would come out of the theater satisfied. I was right. Saw the movie, I liked it, didn’t put much more thought into it though.

Cut to the fourth week of classes…

I’m looking at the course resource page and I’m scrolling through the comics section and I see a link to the Black Panther comic, the only link to a Black Panther comic on there, and I immediately get excited, but what makes things interesting is the type of excitement I got. As earlier described, it’s not like I was big on the Black Panther character. I liked the movie, but I never bought an issue of the comics. What my excitement was comparable too was something along the lines of a child in the toy store. And like a child being told to “put that back on the shelf”, when I found that the link sent me to a Batman comic, I was disappointed. That’s why it bothers me that the link for Black Panther sends me to Batman #600.