Black Widow: Deadly Origin #1
Ha! Black Widow gets her own thread? And why not. Iron Man 2 is coming out, Scarlett Johansen plays her (delightfully so), and you know there's going to be as much crap spotlighting Mickey Rourke's Whiplash and Scarlett's Widow as there can be. Thankfully, Captain Britain scribe Paul Cornell is not crap, and neither is his take on the much-fangled origin of Black Widow.
In issue #1, particularly in the opening salvo, Cornell takes a page from Larry Hama's current G.I. Joe: Origins with some high-octane espionage. For years, we've just loved to see the Widow show up in the most shocking way possible in our Captain America, Iron Man, Wolverine, or (later) Thunderbolts comic books. But how about her own story? She's just got as much confusion as Wolverine, or at least the female equivalent towards so. Cornell does right, easing readers into Natalia's history as an oddly chosen child, as well as tidbits of her relationships, with each flashback relating to the present day.
In all, the story starts off nice and easy, and should end up full of fire the more it goes, hopefully reaching a clear thesis and not a mangled bunch of info just for continuity's sake.
4/5 Bags&Boards - Excellent
Ha! Black Widow gets her own thread? And why not. Iron Man 2 is coming out, Scarlett Johansen plays her (delightfully so), and you know there's going to be as much crap spotlighting Mickey Rourke's Whiplash and Scarlett's Widow as there can be. Thankfully, Captain Britain scribe Paul Cornell is not crap, and neither is his take on the much-fangled origin of Black Widow.
In issue #1, particularly in the opening salvo, Cornell takes a page from Larry Hama's current G.I. Joe: Origins with some high-octane espionage. For years, we've just loved to see the Widow show up in the most shocking way possible in our Captain America, Iron Man, Wolverine, or (later) Thunderbolts comic books. But how about her own story? She's just got as much confusion as Wolverine, or at least the female equivalent towards so. Cornell does right, easing readers into Natalia's history as an oddly chosen child, as well as tidbits of her relationships, with each flashback relating to the present day.
In all, the story starts off nice and easy, and should end up full of fire the more it goes, hopefully reaching a clear thesis and not a mangled bunch of info just for continuity's sake.
4/5 Bags&Boards - Excellent
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