Another title in a long line of comics Marvel wrongly and, to be frank, stupidly cancelled in 2017, Black Panther & The Crew was one of the year's best mini-series, with Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yona Harvey constructing a story of true salience and value over the course of its six issue release.
Resurrecting the team from Christopher Priest's storied and revered Black Panther series, Coates and Harvey sent T'Challa, Storm, Luke Cage, Misty Knight and Manifold to Harlem to uncover a conspiracy that rooted itself squarely in recent US history. Police brutality and institutional racism were both addressed in the comic, and while it was prematurely cancelled in a year which saw Secret Empire - of all things - given a full 10 issue berth, Black Panther & The Crew was still one of the year's best reads.
Harvey and Coates commanded a fantastic script, and Butch Guice's art was tremendous. As both a companion to Coates' main Black Panther title and as a spin-off in its own right, it's also invaluable. You won't find a Black Panther comic more urgent - or more important - than it.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
