The Avengers will head into battle against the XMen and Eternals without their most important leader
✖ When Jason Aaron began his run on Marvel's Avengers comic, he bypassed the likes of Captain America and Iron Man to name Black Panther the team's leader/ambassador. It propelled Black Panther's status in the Marvel Universe, as T'Challa balanced his duties as the King of Wakanda with threats from Namor and his Defenders of the Deep, the Squadron Supreme of America, Dracula's Vampire Nation, and more.
Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Ridley and artist Juann Cabal launched a new volume of Black Panther in November. The comic's opening story arc revealed how Black Panther has several sleeper agents scattered around the world, waiting to be activated by their king to serve Wakanda. A group has somehow discovered the existence of these agents and has started assassinating them, forcing T'Challa to go out into the field in order to solve the murders.