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Marvel Animation released it latest animated series on Disney + this morning, executive produced by Ryan Coogler.

The four episodes were told across the history of the world, showing a group called the War Dogs and their efforts to retrieve artifacts that had been stolen from Wakanda. What felt like separate stories actually came together in a clever way in the final episode, “The Last Panther.”

I was watching Fatman Beyond on YouTube when Marc Bernardin announced that he had written two of the episodes and that he was also a producer on the show. I have always been a fan of Marc Bernardin so it only helped my anticipation for the series.

Disney + dropped all four episodes on the same day.

The show included a trip to Crete, to the Trojan War and to China. The very end of the fourth episode connected the show to the greater MCU too, which was a really fun call back.

The episodes got better with each one. The show looked beautiful and the action was very dramatic and violent.

There were some characters that I had a harder time getting behind, especially in the earlier episodes. However, that was not as much of a problem for me as the show moved along.

I loved the use of Achilles in episode two and the use of the Iron Fist in episode three (which was probably my favorite one).

I like that some of the ideas of the show is that Wakanda is shown as not necessarily the heroic kingdom, a kingdom that only cares about staying isolated. There are some moments of showing this too. I like the shades of grey that the show provided.

This was a worthy addition to the Marvel animation cannon. It was a fun and quick watch.