Black Panther & The Crew #4 Review

Writers: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Yona Harvey / Artist: Butch Guice / Marvel Comics [quote_simple]”Through the fire, through whatever, come what may For a chance at loving you, I’d take it all the way Right down to the wire, even through the fire” -Chaka Khan[/quote_simple] Listen, I’m telling you that you’ll be hard pressed to find a series that is able to blend elements of The Wire, social commentary, great dialogue, detective drama, and action all in one series — let alone one issue. Black Panther & The Crew continues to be the bar for storytelling. Slowly but surely more characters have been added to The Crew and as we saw in the last issue, Luke Cage is the latest challenger to step forth. Before we get into Cage’s appearance we gotta note that all these flashbacks of Ezra Miller and his compatriot’s life in their mission as The Original Crew continue to be a great opening segment for this series.

In the present day, Luke Cage is narrating bits and pieces of his relationship with Ezra Miller. We’re lead to believe that Cage knew about a few of Ezra’s past missions to a certain degree. We see that Ezra was a huge influence upon Cage in his transition out of his Hero For Hire business and mentality. Harvey and Coates give a great look into Knight and Cage’s friendship and understanding of one another as soon as Cage appears. The reader immediately understands the type of friends they are as they banter carefreely during a pretty intense moment (Cage’s building was just blown u…