Marvel Knights: The World to Come #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIssue #3, subtitled 'Part Three: The Door,' represents the narrative midpoint of this six-issue series in which Christopher Priest delivers what he himself called a final statement on T'Challa's legacy — an opportunity to reintroduce the social, political, and dramatic complexity that defined his original 1998–2003 Marvel Knights run. The issue's pivot from Wakanda to New York City mirrors the storytelling philosophy Quesada articulated for the first Knights era: grounding T'Challa in an environment where readers could measure his character against the wider world. As the chapter that explicitly links T'Challa's hidden personal history to the apocalyptic threat driving the series, it is the thematic hinge on which the entire miniseries turns. The series as a whole is also the first time in over two decades that Priest and Quesada — two of the architects of the Marvel Knights imprint — have collaborated on a sustained interior-art comics project together.
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The seed of this series was planted in October 2017, when Priest pitched Quesada an idea rooted in their original Marvel Knights Black Panther collaboration; Quesada immediately committed to drawing it, and the two expanded the scope considerably from that initial concept. By the time Marvel announced the project in March 2025, the series was described as nearly complete in its entirety — a production model that insulated the schedule from typical delays. The series also marks Quesada's return to drawing full interior pages for Marvel after he departed the company's executive ranks in 2022, with executive editor Nick Lowe — who began his Marvel career as an editorial assistant on the original Knights books — shepherding the reunion project to publication.
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- Issue #3 is titled 'Part Three: The Door' and was released on October 8, 2025, with a cover date of December 2025.
- The creative team is writer Christopher Priest (scripting from a story co-developed with Joe Quesada), penciller/inker/cover artist Joe Quesada, colorist Richard Isanove, letterer Richard Starkings, and editor Nick Lowe.
- The issue is part of a six-issue limited series set in an alternate future designated Earth-TRN1711, not the main Marvel 616 continuity.
- The story's narrative in #3 shifts geographically from Wakanda to New York City, revealing previously untold chapters of T'Challa's history in the aftermath of his death.
- The issue's plot establishes that the key to averting a world-ending catastrophe lies in both T'Challa's hidden past and the origins of the series' primary antagonist.
- Christopher Priest's original Marvel Knights Black Panther run (1998–2003) introduced characters — including members of the Dora Milaje such as Nakia and Okoye, Zuri, and Everett Ross — who later appeared in the 2018 Black Panther film; this series is framed as a direct continuation of that foundational run.
- The concept for this series originated in October 2017 when Priest pitched Quesada, making it approximately eight years in development before its 2025 debut.
- Issue #3 was published with multiple variant covers, including a 1:25 Greg Land variant, a 1:100 J. Scott Campbell virgin variant, and covers by Chris Allen and Campbell for the 'Just Spectacular Collection.'
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