According to writer Christopher Priest's pitch, The Crew was about four hardened heroes who had all lost their families and came together initially out of self-interest, but would soon discover their commonality of loss.

[1] The first story arc, Big Trouble In Little Mogadishu, was focused on the origin of Josiah X, son of Isaiah Bradley from Truth: Red, White & Black.

Poet Yona Harvey also contributed to the series (as she did on another short-lived Black Panther spin-off, World of Wakanda).

Princeton Walk was developed by Grace & Tumbalt, a largely black-owned corporation, who cleaned up a section of Brooklyn and moved the criminal element and the poverty line residents out.

[1] Little Mogadishu is a side effect of the gentrification process so that displaced criminal and poverty elements are now concentrated in a war zone outside Princeton Walk's walls.

He delivers the men responsible for his sister's murder to the police, coming across the local Muslim preacher Josiah X along the way.

Rhodey hits Little Mogadishu like a force of nature, derailing the secret money train that delivered bribes in bulk to a large number of corrupt officials.

It is a complete non-issue.Nonetheless, critics have called Priest's The Crew, "The blackest superhero story that Marvel Comics ever published.

Following Black Panther's evidence of outside influences fueling dissent in Wakanda, T'Challa calls on Luke Cage, Misty Knight, Storm, and Eden Fesi.