Marvel cancels one of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther comics
In 2015, Marvel announced that it was handing the keys to Wakanda over to writer Ta-Nehisi Coates by letting him take on the Black Panther comic in advance of the eponymous character’s first big-screen appearance in Captain America: Civil War and eventual solo movie. The book was a hit, and Marvel later released spin-offs called World Of Wakanda and Black Panther & The Crew, with the latter being written by Coates and telling a story about a group of heroes—Black Panther, Storm, Misty Knight, Luke Cage, and Manifold—teaming up to figure out what happened to a man who mysteriously died in police custody. It was pretty timely stuff, but unfortunately Black Panther & The Crew didn’t manage to connect with readers like Coates’ solo Black Panther book did. Now, The Verge is reporting that Marvel has canceled Black Panther & The Crew due to poor sales.