He was approached by Marvel to pitch a BP series. And I wish he'd gotten that chance. But it's understandable that Marvel went with Coates, as he had that name recognition which could (and did) bring in new readers. While I've never pressed him on what his pitch was, he did at least admit that there would not have been any rape camps.
On paper, that character sounding boring as ****. I told him, I only checked it out because he was writing it, so I wanted to give it a chance, but I had low expectations. And damn, I was wrong, he knocked that out the park. Such a unique and refreshing character.
Geoff's big break in writing was through Star Trek. The man knows how to write science fiction, and how to write compelling multicultural casts. Black Panther In Space is the
perfect concept for him.