Quote Originally Posted by Mik View Post
Is Marvel espionage any good though?
Yea I’d say the Black Widow books they put out have done a great job with espionage so far. X-Force, for all its problems has done decently with the concept as well. Ridley’s handled that genre in the past from my understanding and we’ve seen pieces of that kinda in his Batman book (global adventure and underground operations). An espionage direction for BP has worked miraculously in the past under Priest and more recently in Rise of the Black Panther.

Ridley going in the espionage direction would be a welcome change from the space fantasy approach Coates took with the character and a return to the character’s modern roots. And even if other Marvel books hadn’t managed espionage well, that doesn’t mean Ridley or whoever succeeds Coates couldn’t. Things in that corner of the Marvel universe aren’t nearly as cohesive as compared to something like Marvel cosmic or the X-line, so a writer has a lot of freedom to explore different espionage-related topics and conflicts.