Black Panther’s going to have to learn to live without his crew.

Encouraged by sales and the reception of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther — which was nominated for a Hugo Award (not even an Eisner, a Hugo!) — Marvel gave the writer license to expand the world he’d created with a spin-off, Black Panther & the Crew.

Now, after only two issues of the series, Marvel is cancelling the book. 

The reason? Low sales, apparently.

In good news for fans, however, The Verge reports that Marvel is giving Coates four more issues to wrap up the current storyline.

The Crew was created by writer Christopher Priest in 2003, and was a team of lesser-known black Marvel heroes who operated in a gentrified Brooklyn.

Coates recast the Crew, replacing the original four heroes with Storm, Luke Cage, Misty Knight and the Black Panther.

 

The Crew, Photo: Marvel

Whereas the original Crew run tackled gentrification, the new series focused on police brutality, telling the story of a black man who died mysteriously while in police custody.

Besides exploring race in America, Coates planned to use the series as an opportunity to take a look at Marvel’s black heroes that went beyond their armor and masks “to get inside them as black people.”

Now it seems we’ll never get to see Storm and the other members of the Crew be as black as they could be.

However, if you don't mind Black Panther solo, Coates' normal Black Panther book will continue for the foreseeable future. And the character will also soon be featured in his own Marvel Cinematic Universe film, so there's that, too.

Photo: Marvel