Overview

• Marvel Knights: The World to Come #1 unveils Ketema, a blond, blue-eyed son of T’Challa who claims the Black Panther mantle.
• Social media users compared Ketema’s features to Ryan Gosling, driving widespread fan-casting speculation.
• Marvel Studios has issued no confirmation of casting and has not associated Gosling with any Black Panther project.
• Christopher Priest, a pioneering Black writer, leads the series’ exploration of family, identity and power struggles in Wakanda.
• Marvel is reportedly developing Black Panther 3 with Letitia Wright set to return as Shuri and Denzel Washington linked to a new role.