Originally Posted by
Emperorjones
Largely agree here, though I did think his first issue was good. I thought at the time that it was a breath of fresh air compared to Coates and that Ridley was going back to a more Machiavellian T'Challa. I also was with Ridley's run until about issue six or so and that's when I started seeing the cracks. And it was downhill from there for the rest of the series. Now that I'm reading through Coates's run it even feels a bit dismissive for Ridley to have used Akili in that way. If nothing else, it might have worked to really make him the big bad over Jhai. If he had been the one missing and presumed dead, readers would already know that character and perhaps feel/understand T'Challa's loss.