Black Panther and the Crew #1

[lordultimus]

Comments

[q99]

You know, I can't help but thinking that even with bad robot cops, this crew is rather a lot of power to drop on one problem like that!

Sure, you've got Misty, her role is clear, then Luke's another obvious pick, Black Panther rules a *country* (though hey, he did do Hell's Kitchen for awhile subbing for Matt), and then you've got Storm in case you need to drop a hurricane on the problem, then yet another mutant, Manifold, just in case you need a teleporter (which seems odd to need here- maybe suggestion the team goes on to other stuff? He's Australian so no real Harlem connection, though is a friend of T'challa).

This is a team if you want to wrap up your robot cop problem fast.


Though I am curious how the T'Challa/Storm relationship is nowadays....

Re: T'Challa/Storm

[chortles81]

There's a glimpse thereof in Black Panther #13.

[thehood]

Basically, Ororo and T'Challa are still friends.

[q99]

Good, I do like that they can acknowledge couples can break up and be reasonable about it.

[doctornone]

Quote: "(though hey, he did do Hell's Kitchen for awhile subbing for Matt)"

Shhhhh, we don't talk about that. That some other T'challa from Earth 616 1/2.

[salad_barbarian]

Pantherbot.

[zachbeacon]

So this has nothing to do with the Priest series?

[randyripoff]

Nope. Shame too--I would have liked to see Josiah X again.

[zachbeacon]

Yeah. It's weird to me that no one (especially Patriot) seems all that bothered that he's been missing for years

[thehood]

Of course we haven't seen Eli in years either and we are getting a new Patriot, so it seems like we won't be getting Eli back anytime soon.

[aperturedreams]

Coates has said in interviews that he wanted to use the original Crew but that Marvel wouldn't let him.

[doctornone]

I hope the reason is the are saving them for when Priest returns.

Honestly, nobody would be able to due Josiah and Cole justice

[starwolf_oakley]

Interesting tidbit: The Bright Lady that Storm talks about is supposed to be Oshtur, the Doctor Strange character who is part of the Vishanti.

[gnarll]

Not a lot of people remember that Storm was born in Harlem.

But for most of her time, shes been mostly uninterested in both Harlem and her US family. And when someone remembers she was born in New York, that gets ignored. I wish we'd had a bit of a character arch bridging the two.

[icon_uk]

I think because it's a bizarre bit of business the logic of which never made sense to anyone.

The point of the "All-New, All-Different X-Men" was that they were from across the world; Germany, Russia, Canada, Ireland (Banshee), Japan (Sunfire) and the only American was actually Native American, making the one from African technically American seemed very odd.

[doctornone]

From http://www.cbr.com/marvels-black-panther-the-crew-cancelled-after-two-issues/?utm_source=CBR-TW&utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_campaign=CBR-TW&view=list:

"Christopher Priest wrote what turned out to be a mini-series that I just adored called The Crew,” Coates said. “Black Panther wasn’t in the original Crew, but he was weirdly sort of related because an ancillary character of his series was in the Crew. It was a unique book because the majority of the characters were black. So when I came back to write Black Panther, I read a bunch of Christopher Priest’s stuff, and I wanted to bring it back. I was going to try to do it with the same members that he had. But it became clear that certain characters would not be available for various reasons. So I decided to think about it in a different way and think about something new."

[jekylls_salvation]

Didn't this get hard cancelled?

[lordultimus]

Yep. Ends after issue six.

[jekylls_salvation]

Called it.