During his time as the Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics, Joe Quesada was around for a number of comic book stories that you could safely describe as “breaking the internet” level events, and he has clearly taken that experience with him in his new miniseries, Marvel Knights: The World to Come, with legendary writer, Christopher Priest (and longtime Quesada collaborator, colorist Richard Isanove), and the series has already “broken the internet” once with its first issue and its reveal that T’Challa will be succeeded as Black Panther by his adopted White son at some point in the future.

In this CBR exclusive preview of next week’s Marvel Knights: The World to Come #4, we learn more details about the deadly conflict that had only been referenced in the series as simply the “Race War.”

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CHRISTOPHER PRIEST (W) • Joe Quesada (A)

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In the preview pages, we see a further exploration of the conflict known as the “Race War,” which we had discovered earlier in the series had been the reason why Storm died before she and Black Panther had any children, why Everett Ross’s wife died, why Ross went into hiding after being presumed dead, as well, why Ross’ child was adopted by T’Challa, and why T’Challa got remarried to his old girlfriend, Monica Lynne.

The format of Marvel Knights: The World to Come is to jump back and forth through time, in order to give us an increasingly deeper understanding of all the conflicts that are taking place in the future upon T’Challa’s death decades in the future. Here, we see that the “Race War” was a battle to the death between the Inhumans and the world’s mutants, and that is how Storm died.

Black Panther and the world’s non-mutant or Inhuman superheroes, like Captain America, Invisible Woman, Spider-Man, Hulk, and Daredevil, all come together at the wreckage of the final battle between the Inhumans and mutants and sort through the dead bodies to debate whether the superhuman populace was, ultimately, responsible for this conflict, and how, exactly, a conflict like this could be avoided in the future. Knowing T’Challa, questions like that are not going to be rhetorical, so to see the aftermath of that debate, you’ll have to pick up a copy of Marvel Knights: The World to Come #4 when it comes out next week!

Source: Marvel