Now, as you can see, even Morgan concedes that it might have been too much for Marvel, but it is interesting to note that the second miniseries WAS a Parental Warning, Explicit Content comic book, so I think Marvel would have gone for it.had it approved of the third series PERIOD, that is, but as Morgan notes at another point in the interview, the sales were not good, so that's likely why we never saw part three.
Truth is, I’m lucky they even let me get away with Volume 2! But like I said, I was a newcomer to comics back then, and painfully naive about it all. Of course, it was insane to think that Marvel would ever have run with something like that, or that it could find a decently large audience in the core fanbase, not five years after 9/11, in the midst of the biggest and ugliest military misadventure abroad since Vietnam and with cheap chest-beating patriotism being stoked like crazy everywhere you looked. Ultimately, superannuated Soviet relics were going to save America from its own worst excesses and help restore a modicum of democracy - neat irony, huh?
Quite how we were going to pick the bones out of all that in a further six issues, I wasn’t quite sure - and in the end never had to find out! - but salient factors were going to be the Widow assassinating the President, a dirty-deeds back-door CIA hit squad called INSERT, and the reappearance of Lyudmila from Homecoming with some helpful biotech tips and upgrades. But certainly the second volume in the run, The Things They Say About Her, ended on a deliberate Act 2 low-point - the Widow and Matt Murdock both on Homeland Security’s Most Wanted List, Nick Fury banged up in Guantanamo as a traitor, corporate assholes in control of the White House and a puppet President, an ex-Navy SEAL assassin on the Widow’s trail, paid by Miami gangsters but driven by a personal thirst for vengeance (Natasha killed his father), and America spiralling into the grip of a Military Industrial Complex police state. Well, to say it was plotted out would be dignifying the state of play a bit too much, I think.
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