When Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yona Harvey’s Black Panther & The Crew launched earlier this year, it proved that big publishers like Marvel can, in fact, still tell timely stories about real world issues, like how police brutality devastates black communities. But now, after a mere two issues, Marvel has cancelled the series.



In this incarnation of the crew, Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, and Misty Knight gather in Harlem to investigate the murder of Ezra Keith, a civil rights activist who mysteriously died while in police custody. With lines drawn between Harlem’s residents and the police seemingly trying to cover up Keith’s death, The Crew find themselves fighting to maintain the peace while also serving justice, and learning about the unknown history of other black heroes who protected New York during the Civil Rights Movement.



Speaking to The Verge, Coates explained that Marvel chose to end The Crew due to low sales numbers, and that its current story arc would come to a close later this year in its sixth and final issue.

Not that it was necessary at this point, but here is yet another example of how selling to SJWs is a recipe for failure I wish there was an efficient way to bet against things like Black Lives Matter Superhero Comic and so forth. It will be interesting to see how well Alt-Hero fares once we're ready to launch the crowdfunding campaign on an Alt-Tech alternative to Kickstarter.Question of the day: who is more intellectually overrated by the media, Ta-Nehisi Coates or Neil deGrasse Tyson?

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