Black Panther and The Crew #5 Review

Writer: Ta-Nehisi Coates / Artists: Butch Guice, Mack Chater, Stephen Thompson / Marvel Comics [quote_simple]”The whole byrd gang’s in here. Like Kurt Cobain was here, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah “- Juelz Santana[/quote_simple] Well finally all together now! We’ve been seeing more and more each issue of how each member of The Crew connects with Harlem and in turn how deep Ezra’s mission and connection to Wakanda were in his youth. Coates introduces us to Eden, who has carved out a block of Harlem after his father figure of sorts, Gateway, passed and just how Ezra helped him find a home. We need to do a Zach Morris time out here as Coates again digs back in the crates of back issues to give us another look at the past X-Men lore (via Gateway). Eden is a link to the X-Men’s lost years when they were operating from Australia. In this telling, Eden’s indigenous identity is not separated him from as he experiences harassment or discrimination by the police.

Eden takes up a majority of this issue apart from the flashback to Ezra and his falling out with his crew, which I’m good with. We still have yet to know that much about Eden and Coates does a great job filling in those gaps for us with heavy portions of back story. I think my favorite part of this issue, aside from the team finally being together and being closer to solving what happened to Ezra thanks to their witness Eddie, is the opening fight scene with Eden taking on the AmeriCops. Getting to see how Eden uses his teleportat…