'Black Panther' with Glen Weldon and Evan Narcisse

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🗓️ 27 February 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Sam talks about the success of Black Panther and where Hollywood goes next with writer Glen Weldon (@ghweldon) from NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour and Evan Narcisse (@EvNarc), who's writing Rise of the Black Panther for Marvel Comics. Email the show at [email protected] or tweet @NPRItsBeenaMin with feels.

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0:00.0	Hey there, just want to let you know about Invisibility.
0:02.5	It's NPR's show about the Invisible Forces shaping our behavior.
0:06.5	The show is back on March 9th with a brand new season.
0:09.9	This time, the Invisibility team is taking on some of the biggest cultural fights of our time.
0:15.0	Russian hacking, reality TV, me too, just to name a few.
0:19.5	You can listen to Invisibility and subscribe to Invisibility on the NPR One app or wherever you get your podcast.
0:31.0	Hey y'all, from NPR, I'm Sam Sanders. It's been a minute.
0:36.0	Today on the show, Black Panther.
0:39.0	We wanted to wait to talk about it until we all had time to watch it and process it and watch it again.
0:45.0	Also, for those of you who haven't seen it yet, do not worry.
0:48.0	There are no spoilers in this episode.
0:50.0	And it's a chat that will make sense to you and I think give you a lot,
0:54.0	even if you haven't seen Black Panther.
0:57.0	For this conversation, I'm talking to two people.
0:59.0	Glenn Weldon, you know him from NPR's pop culture happy hour.
1:02.0	He writes about books and comic books for NPR.org.
1:05.0	Also talking with Evan Narciss, Evan is based in Austin, Texas.
1:09.0	And he is actually writing a series of comics right now for Marvel.
1:14.0	They are a prequel to the plot line in the Black Panther film.
1:17.0	It's called The Rise of the Black Panther.
1:20.0	So Evan got that job writing Black Panther comics, coolest job ever,
1:24.0	with some help from Tana Hossie Coats.
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