10 Best Comic Books Of 2017
4. Black Panther And The Crew
Ta-Nehisi Coates' Black Panther comic has been one of the biggest success stories of Marvel's latest era, but it's the superhero ensemble the Atlantic scribe wrote alongside Yona Harvey that made for one of this year's greatest comics.
One of 2017's most salient reads, Black Panther and The Crew did more than just resurrect former Panther writer Christopher Priest's team - it set about telling one of the most intelligent stories of the year, focusing on police violence in Harlem and how institutionalised racism still pervades the United States. Featuring a crew comprised of Storm, Luke Cage, Misty Knight and Manifold, the book was everything and more of what we'd come to expect of a Coates comic, a fact undoubtedly made better by Harvey's presence on the title.
That said, Marvel never really seemed to treat the book with the same kind of urgency it carried on its own pages, cancelling it after a mere two issues in response to a supposed lack of sales. Coupled with Secret Empire, the cancellation of The Crew seemed to just encapsulate the House of Ideas' disastrous approach to 2017, in a year which saw the publisher have more controversies than the Phoenix has had resurrections.
Still, the six issues of The Crew we did get were brilliant, and more than worth the investment should the opportunity present itself.