It's raining Black Panther comics! In addition to Black Panther and Black Panther: World of Wakanda, Marvel announced the launch of a new series, Black Panther & the Crew.

The title, which spins out of a two-part storyline in Black Panther #7 and #8, will be written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yona Harvey with feature art by Butch Guice. The new Crew series, set in Harlem, will feature Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Misty Knight, and Manifold. The opening story will revolve around what happens after an activist dies in police custody.

“This is in the air. It’s not like I looked at a Black Lives Matter protest and was like, ‘Hey, I want to write a comic about that.’ But you’re confronted with it every day. So when I sat down to think about what is this story with four black protagonists about, and you start scribbling, that rises up. The events of the day are with me. It seemed like an opportunity to do something. It becomes clear in the first issue that the activist is not just an activist. There’s something more going on there,” Coates said.

The initial arc also includes elements of crime stories, and as Coates says, “a Cold War aspect.” “You see the events of today. There are also flashbacks to events of the Cold War. It all connects. The basic idea is each of these people for various reasons has a conflicted relationship with the neighborhood, Harlem,” continued Coates.

Black Panther & the Crew will also feature heroes that appear in both Marvel’s street-level and global-level worlds. “What does it mean to protect the street and protect the world? How are those things connected? What happens when T’Challa is walking down the street without his [Black Panther] uniform and people don’t recognize him, he’s just a black person? Same with Storm,” added Coates.

The inspiration for the series came from 2003 volume The Crew, written by Christopher Priest with art by Joe Bennett.

“Christopher Priest wrote what turned out to be a miniseries that I just adored called The Crew. Black Panther wasn’t in the original Crew, but he was weirdly sort of related because an ancillary character of his series was in the Crew. It was a unique book because the majority of the characters were black. So when I came back to write Black Panther, I read a bunch of Christopher Priest’s stuff, and I wanted to bring it back. I was going to try to do it with the same members that he had. But it became clear that certain characters would not be available for various reasons. So I decided to think about it in a different way and think about something new,” Coates said.