And The Trill Keeps On Coming: Ta-Nehisi Coates Remixes The Crew In Black Panther

[quote_simple]”He came back, in the same suit that he was buried in.”- Wasalu Muhammad Jaco [/quote_simple]Lemme tell you something you should already know. It’s so hard being a Black nerd out in these Streets of Rage, man. You out here looking for characters that look like you up in a fandom, you out here just trying to see yourself in what you enjoy. You just trying to see you, ya peoples, LGBQTIA+ or POC folk out here flourishing up in the fandom too. Which is why when you do get a sliver of that shit, you Gollum onto it and hold it deep to your chest because you never know when you’re going to see it again. Now before we move forward with this article we gotta go back. We gotta go back to July 2003 when Christopher Priest and Joe Bennet dropped The Crew aka one of the most underrated underrated comic books to ever bless Marvel Comics’ roster. The Crew was the comic book version of The Wire and while y’all were struggling to get through season 2, I was reading this shit and fucking loving it. This Atmosphere of The Crew was so Black, so POC, and best of all it was straight up sophisticated gutta gutta. This was one of the fucking grimiest books I ever got my hands on as well as the most self aware.

The Crew dealt with gentrification, poverty, crime and espionage to a whole ‘nother level. I couldn’t believe how hood the shit was and I fucking loved it. The best part was at the center of it all was James Rhodes aka War Machine but bruh, he was not on that War Machine shit i…