“Shuri is a pretty complex young woman, and she’s doing her best to put on a good front. She’s gone from headstrong, short-tempered and arrogant little sister to T’Challa to being the ruler of Wakanda and the hero of the people. At least, those are the roles she has to play. When we meet her in issues #7 and #8, we see her as cool and confident, but some of that is a front. It’s a ‘fake it until you make it’ thing. She knows full well she’s not the intellectual giant that T’Challa is, and she doesn’t have the field experience to be the same level of fighter he is. She’s doing a pretty good job of playing those roles, too, but as the crisis worsens and the pressure increases to discover how and why T’Challa was attacked, we’ll be seeing cracks in that facade. Her arrogance and temper are going to get her into some pretty hot water, starting with issue #9 and steamrolling into a very big problem in issue #11. If you’ve seen the solicitations for #11, you’ll have some idea of the trouble she’s getting into.”

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