In July 2015, it was announced that Frank Tieri and Luca Pizzari would be launching a new "Black Knight" series as part of Marvel's post-"Secret Wars" relaunch. This series featured Whitman as the ruler of New Avalon, a kingdom he has claimed in the reality known as Weirdworld. The ongoing series was cancelled with issue #5 in 2016, as Marvel was unhappy with its sales. The writer of the series, Frank Tieri, then considered it a standalone limited series and expressed his feelings over the series being cut short. "Black Knight" is notable as the first "All-New, All-Different Marvel" comic book series to be cancelled.