1896 CE | Deep Dive | Eyes of Wakanda: The Last Panther (S1E4)
Snark Industries by Evidence of Effort Productions, LLC
Episode notes
Snark Industries wraps up Eyes of Wakanda with its most MCU-connected episode yet, set against the backdrop of the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1896. The full plot gets walked through, from Prince Tafari and veteran war dog Kuda's mission to recover a familiar vibranium axe to the arrival of a Black Panther from the year 2296 with a very specific request and very little time to explain it. The time travel logic at the heart of the episode sparks the liveliest debate of the series, with one host finding the broken ruleset impossible to overlook and the other genuinely enjoying the episode while freely admitting to negotiating with the material to make it work. Comic roots are traced through the War Dogs, Wakandan isolationism via the Ta-Nehisi Coates and Reginald Hudlin runs, and the Horde itself, which turns out to be lifted from Neil Gaiman's 2006 Ete ...