Black Panther #4 (of 4)
A Cat Can Look At A King…
October 1st, 1988
It's the chilling climax to the action-packed Limited Series as T'Challa battles the mystic Panther Spirit...with the fate of his nation hanging in the balance!
The conclusion to an epic series begins with the nation of Wakanda in a celebration of the Black Panther's success of saving Wakanda from immediate destruction. Everyone is happy. Everyone excpept for T'Challa. The Panther God has told T'Challa that after he stops the misssile launch, he would have to pay with his life for forsaking his god, as well as the people of Azania. T'Challa understands that it is time for judgement. He stops the celebration and tells the people of Wakanda what the Panther God told him, and he then leaves to receive his judgement from his god.

T'Challa heads into the jungle, and stands face to face with the Panther God. The god he worshiped since his infancy. The Panther God is unmatched in speed, strength, and prowess. He attacks T'Challa, scraping parts of his face, and thus beginning his judgement.
T'Challa evades and runs. The Panther God tells T'Challa of all the crying prayers from T'Challa's people, and his own worshippers, that went unanswered. Cries from under the oppressors boots. The Panther God tells him that this is the reason why he left T'Challa to answer the people on his own, and this is the reason why T'Challa must die. T'Challa responds by telling his god that he heard their cries, and sought to give them weapons, and economic power. He tells the Panther God that launching a revolt when there is no chance of success only brings more weeping and screaming. The Panther God attacks again, biting part of T'Challa's arm off. Bomvana and Malaika watch on from cameras hidden in the jungle, and decide they must do something to help T'Challa. Bomvana activates part of the electric jungle that the battle has taken them to, and T'Challa notices this. He grabs sharp electrical blades in the shape of leaves, and throws them at the Panther God, but it does nothing.


Meanwhile, the Azzanian goverment within a meeting, is presented with a picture showing T'Challa somewhere else when the "Black Panther" attacked. Clearing T'Challa and wakanda from the actions of the Panther Spirit. They broadcast a plan to stop the oppression of the people of Wakanda.
T'Challa barely able to continue, creates a plan. He leads the Panther God through a series of places through the jungle that as a result paralyzes the Panther God's host, reducing the body back to a man unconscious. However this does not stop the Panther God, a bigger fiercer cat emerges. knocking T'Challa to the ground. T'Challa apologizes to his god. He believes he didn't do enough for his people, he believes he could have done better. But he also says he never faltered for lack of desire. Fighting the issue with strength, intelligence, technology, everything he had. T'Challa believes that he made the right decision by not solving Azania's oppresion with force and violence, the way the Panther God tried to do. He believes that he always had the best interest in mind for his people, and knows that he never stopped listening to the needs of his people. T'Challa says that he never lies down against what he sees as wrong, not even against his own God. The Panther God tells T'Challa that he has learned what he needed to learn, and reunites with T'Challa once more.
The series concludes with a conversation with Malaika, who's confused on how he says he lost, but is still alive. T'Challa tells her that the blood of their people is a holy thing, one that would be fought with all their strength. That is where their minds meet, and T'Challa together with the Panther God, will always be there for them.
