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The fine art?
Ehhhhhh.
Not and then much a fan of it, simply it does sort of fit with the dark nature of the story. This isn't the same Black Widow from the Avengers. This chick is willing to practise any and hurt whoever she needs to, in order to get what she came for.
Natasha is at the top of the United States nigh wanted list, and being hunted equally a terrorist.
{Insert Story I Am Unaware O
The fine art?
Ehhhhhh.
Not and so much a fan of it, only information technology does sort of fit with the nighttime nature of the story. This isn't the same Blackness Widow from the Avengers. This chick is willing to do any and hurt whoever she needs to, in lodge to get what she came for.
Natasha is at the top of the United States most wanted listing, and being hunted every bit a terrorist.
{Insert Story I Am Unaware Of}
From what this book indicated, information technology was considering she killed the CEO of a company that had friends in loftier places...who I'one thousand bold was a horrible person.
I'm trying to track down equally much Black Widow stuff equally I can correct now, so I'm thinking I'll run across that story somewhen.
And so. What would yous practice if you were wanted by the American government?
Head to Cuba, of grade!
It doesn't hurt that Cuba is the habitation of another Black Widow named Yelena.
I'm going to admit right off the bat, that I accept almost zero knowledge of that character. I recognize the name, but that's it.
At any rate, she agrees to help Natasha with her problem, if she'll help Yelena with hers.
And then it'south off to detect some illegal (medical) drug suppliers and beat them into giving up Yelena's shipment.
While Natasha is gently beating the suppliers, she runs beyond some information that Sally Anne is even so alive!
WhoTheFuckIsSallyAnne, yous enquire?
Well, I don't know. But she'southward actually important to Black Widow.
Once more, just from what I gleaned from this volume, she appears to exist a kid (15ish) that Natasha saved and took under her wing, at some point.
Right at present, though, she'south existence experimented on past man traffickers, who are trying to come upward with a drug that makes their workforce docile.
Blackness Widow to the rescue!
In the meantime, Nick Fury & Daredevil are both trying to figure out how to assistance her, fifty-fifty though she really doesn't seem to desire them to.
Nick somewhen gets himself arrested and shoved into a no-proper name prison house (thank you, Patriot Act!) afterward he saves her from a sniper. And Matt ends upwards on the run in Republic of cuba later he tries to save Nick from a beating in said prison.
{More Stuff Happens}
And Natasha ends up a prisoner in Sally Anne's factory, getting tortured past ii other people who detest her for {Insert More Things I Haven't Read About}.
And they all lived happily ever after...
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I wasn't sure what I'd recall of the art, based on the messy cover. Turns out that it's really pretty deliberately messy - helps convey the equivocal nature of the people, their loyalties and the swimming-in-sewage aspect to how Black Widow has to get her work done. (I wasn't sure if the Phillips/Sienkiewicz combination would really wo
Moody, morally ambivalent, fun (in a "beating on bad guys because they deserve it" kind of style). This is a role of the Marvel universe that I don't get plenty of.I wasn't certain what I'd think of the art, based on the messy cover. Turns out that it's really pretty deliberately messy - helps convey the equivocal nature of the people, their loyalties and the swimming-in-sewage aspect to how Black Widow has to become her work washed. (I wasn't sure if the Phillips/Sienkiewicz combination would really work - Phillips work with more conventional colourists is cracking, and Sienkiewicz' fine art from the 80's withal blows my mind, simply information technology took me a while to conform to the overlay of spatter and crude-outside-the-edges on the clean, minimalist pencils.)
Natasha is very hard here, no room for 2nd guesses, and no interest in taking a few extra seconds to salvage a few lives. Expedient, angry and savage. I'm not entirely certain of I'k on her side or not, and I'd have preferred a little more insight into why she chooses to kill some and non others, but it's withal compelling reading.
Hard to put down, and hard to accept that there have been no more such volumes since this was published. If I was a prose-reading kinda guy I might convince myself to add Morgan to my "gotta sample" list, only seeing every bit I'1000 a pictures-with-my-words Neanderthal, there's a better risk of me learning to eat insects (that aren't disguised as food colouring) than wade through 500 pages of this dialogue (no matter how proficient it is).
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I thought the commencement volume Black Widow: Homecoming (weird numbering no idea why this is back to #1 when this is literally part 2), was okay simply this one simply went out of the way to piss me off.
It's fucking disgusting and full of misogyny and for what? I don't desire to be that
I SHOULD have known from the awful cover this was going to exist gross shit similar wtf is that pose? Dude what the fuck? That isn't how humans work simply okay. My desire to read all Black Widow is leading me down some shitty paths.I thought the first book Blackness Widow: Homecoming (weird numbering no thought why this is dorsum to #ane when this is literally part 2), was okay just this one merely went out of the way to piss me off.
Information technology's fucking disgusting and total of misogyny and for what? I don't desire to be that person but it was and then atrocious to read like it's 7am, calm the fuck down my dudes. Natasha has a lot of enemies in this. What do they call her? Well let me get the long list of things like bitch, whore, and my personal favorite trollop while of course saying russian / ex commie in front of it. So creative. Glad they were all gendered insults because oh yeah Natasha is a woman huh. Oh don't forget!! In that location is a lesbian graphic symbol!! Make sure to phone call her "dyke" and man comments as much every bit possible.
And then there is a bad guy who LITERALLY makes a "don't trust something that bleeds every month and doesn't die" comment when like? Fuck off? And Black Widow doesn't even accept a period? It'south like when you are in an argument with a man and he'south like wow what are you lot on the rag? Eat shit my dudes. This character'southward unabridged personality was how he wanted to assault Natasha likewise in revenge for her drugging and interrogating him. GG writing, and so different, and then unique.
Blackness Widow'south conform also lost the zipper which I take dorsum whatever compliments I gave the showtime volume when they didn't do that because this fourth dimension, they really said get them titties out Nat!! She was drawn so ridiculous, with big boobs and her suit was a joke. It didn't lucifer anything we were going for hither in how vicious this story was (merely information technology sure matched Yelena beingness nothing but sexualized too).
Ofc the story was just countless violence against women, how these girls were taken and used for experiments and oh yeah sexually assaulted but throw that in with a side comment.
I liked how badass Natasha was, she gave cipher fucks and was going to impale everyone to salvage a daughter and herself only the whole story with Republic of cuba just felt and then... sus. Weird politics comments that were in here too much aside, this comic was accented dog shit.
Also the art was ugly.
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Aside from the problematic aspects, I really loved Natasha in this collection. She's so fucking unapologetic and badass, and she does non give a unmarried fuck. Nat will practise whatever she needs to do to get to a ways end. Comic Natasha is so much more ruthless and rabid than she is in the mcu, and her comic persona is what I so desperately wished the mcu would take washed to Nat'southward grapheme. I loved seeing Yelena once more, and while personality wise, Yelena comics vs. mcu are pretty different, I still love both of them separately.
The fine art is still not my favorite. It just looks really like undeveloped and scratchy??? Almost like a touch draft of a sketch if that makes sense? Information technology simply personally wasn't my cup of tea, but I volition admit in that location were a few pretty panels here a there. But if I could avert reading more with this art mode, I probably would. The plot line wasn't the best in this one. In fact, I was kinda over the plot past #three. The simply reason I rated this three stars instead of 2.v was because of Natasha. That'due south information technology, Natasha is one of the coolest characters I've always read about.
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ane - The story, which he has clearly concieved and executed carefully from page one
2 - The characters, many of whom he has not created, but all of whom nevertheless maintain their proscribed characteristics, personalities, and traits
iii - His ain arroyo to both historical and gimmicky problems
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What marvels me in THE THINGS THEY SAY ABOUT HER, the second stage of Richard M. Morgan's comics career (and, God-willing, he'll do more), is how he is able to simultaneously balance the post-obit things:i - The story, which he has clearly concieved and executed carefully from folio one
two - The characters, many of whom he has non created, but all of whom nevertheless maintain their proscribed characteristics, personalities, and traits
3 - His own approach to both historical and gimmicky issues
4 - What it is he wants to say specifically well-nigh #3
His dialogues, are, every bit always, consequent, excellent, creative, balanced, and understandable. The Natalia Romanov that appears in this novel (too as HOMECOMING) echoes both her Common cold War roots as well equally Morgan's contemporary vitriol towards the free market in the 21st century. When Morgan describes the boxing-ground of the free marketplace's international exploitation, he compares it to a "sewer." This illustrates exactly what information technology is that makes Morgan the perfect author (and screenwriter?) to conductor the Black Widow into the 21st century: his power to reconcile all of the areas he sees as affected of or by a specific arena with a simple passage of dialogue.
Without his power to narrate the surroundings of his characters--relying instead on the artists he is working with--seems to brand Morgan an even MORE efficient writer, which is difficult to do, as none of his novels seems peculiarly overlong. TTTSAH suffers from no lag, no downtime, but rather brings six perfectly paced and well-structured comic capacity into a single graphic novel that stands alongside his novels as a bitter, effective commentary on gimmicky issues (the 'free' market, the Cold War, women's issues, etc.) while non suffering from the short retention that seems to affect and then many authors. He is the premier scientific discipline-fiction author of the 21st century through its kickoff decade, and his foray into comics serves not simply to provide his fans (and, hopefully, the greater reading community) with another fantastic book, but besides another scathing look at "market place forces." Thank you again, Richard Thousand. - keep writing, and I'll go along reading.
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Morgan makes Natasha a total badass and frankly I've gained an appreciation of Yelena too.
I can't believe this is an actual Marvel book published past Marvel Comics in which the heroine ends upward in Cuban asylum and she has the baddie be put on trial for human rights offenses... also in Cuba!Morgan makes Natasha a full badass and frankly I've gained an appreciation of Yelena too.
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Because all the plot lines and characters were set upward in the #2 which I had not read, I was mostly at ocean reading this. I went back after and re-read it but nevertheless, non the same.
I found the artwork in this volume much more heady than in the previous one, not as formulaic and much better movement scenes. The use of red in the dark scenes to option out Natalya's hair especially, I thought it gave focus and ready the scene for
This is a number three, and I read it earlier the number two. Damn you MarvelBecause all the plot lines and characters were set up in the #2 which I had non read, I was by and large at sea reading this. I went back after and re-read it simply notwithstanding, not the same.
I found the artwork in this book much more than exciting than in the previous one, not equally formulaic and much better movement scenes. The utilize of red in the night scenes to pick out Natalya's hair especially, I idea it gave focus and set the scene for those frames. There were enough of variable frame action shots, which I like and the employ of heavy black lines and overflowing coloring to emphasis potent emotions worked well for me.
It did occures to me that the reason I liked the fine art in this one and so much more might be that the story could barely agree me and I had more conscious attending for the art piece of work.
In this i Natalya is 1 angry niggling uber bitch aptitude on causing mayhem for reasons that were a little mysterious to this reader. She obviously killed a few people in an earlier function of her story and and so lots of people want to kill her back. Having read the previous book one notwithstanding didn't entirely help with the level of vindictiveness that drives a few of the 'bad guy' characters. Natalya herself is simultaneously aroused bitch from hell and helpless victim in a mode that did not really rock my boat.
Sally Anne made no sense to me and information technology was not simply because I had non read the start part of the story; even after I read the first function of the story I got no ground for understanding the obsession with a single random stranger.
The appearances of Fury and Matt seemed redundant (though I imagine it was setting u.s. up for hereafter storylines, I doubtable I am non engaged enough to pursue them), though I did quite like the inclusion of Yelena her constant 'to the rescue' appearances were a chip deus ex machina.
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The story is OK. A adept beginning and a adept stop, just some tedious in the middle of this half-dozen consequence limited serial.
Sienkiewicz is impressive. As always. Just this is far from that Elektra Assassin.
I suppose Sean Phillips did a great work hither with sketches and storyboarding. Merely when Sienkiewicz is working, all the rest is eclipsed. It'southward the start time I read a comic-volume of the creator (creators) of Altered Carbon.
The story is OK. A practiced beginning and a good cease, but some dull in the middle of this six outcome limited series.
Sienkiewicz is impressive. Equally e'er. But this is far from that Elektra Assassin.
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Literally an entire star knocked off for the cover. It's sexist and also really bad anatomy. Don't comic artists go along wooden mannequins around?
I'm torn on this volume, in the way that I usually am when men write women and try to write feminism. On the one hand, I honey Natasha Romanova with the called-for power of five thousand suns. On the other manus, at this
Tl;dr: If you like Black Widow, read this; except if you can't do sexism anymore, don't read this; TW for implications of sexual violence.Literally an unabridged star knocked off for the cover. It'due south sexist and besides really bad beefcake. Don't comic artists keep wooden mannequins around?
I'm torn on this volume, in the mode that I usually am when men write women and attempt to write feminism. On the one paw, I love Natasha Romanova with the burning power of five thousand suns. On the other paw, at this point I pretty much only want women to write her (Edmondson gets a pass because he gets it). I beloved Natasha's badassery in this, the way her censor peaks through the outside armor, love that Yelena looked later on her. In that location was a real camaraderie between those ii (and it fifty-fifty passed the Bechdel exam); that was wonderful and amazing and I could go for a billion years of Yelena/Natasha camaraderie. I besides liked the political background to all of this--I thought that was incredibly well done, and I liked it, a lot.
The problem for me---and this reason why this wasn't a 4-star volume---is that this felt like the sort of heavy-handed "feminist" writing I expect from the 1980s, not from the 2000s. It's not that I don't appreciate information technology; this is a massive improvement over the way comics used to be. That being said, information technology's the sort of volume that takes its feminism and decides to shove it down your throat with its words, instead of just being feminist, and treating these women like people first. (I should note that at that place ARE moments where Morgan succeeds at that, and they're genuinely great.) Y'all also can't pretend that Natasha isn't highly sexualized in this volume, despite the fact that she's not using her abilities as a femme fatale at all, or that there aren't abiding heavy-handed threats of sexual violence fabricated confronting female characters in this book. It'due south a little unsettling, to be honest. Add together in Yelena's oral communication about Using Twelvemonth Feminine Wiles Against The Menz and I just---go tired. Some modest changes in the art, in the style that threats are portrayed, in how Yelena'southward calculations were portrayed, and you still have the same general, and proficient, storyline, just without leaving me exhausted in the face of yet another comic that feels a demand to shove its women into one very sexual and very violent little corner.
Every bit for the art---non my style, simply well executed for its style. I enjoyed the use of color quite a bit.
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Existent rating? ii.5 for story but Sienkiewicz'southward covers brand it a
Will I ever read a Black Widow story in which an asshole (or several) don't call her a whore? We get it, she's beautiful and spies are femme fatales and apathetic blah blah, and, I know, the stories rarely if ever validate these assholes, which is neat. Only that doesn't modify the fact that this happens pretty much in every single Nat story there is; it'due south exhausting, and at this point and later all this fourth dimension, it's creatively bankrupt, too.Real rating? 2.5 for story merely Sienkiewicz'due south covers make it a 3.
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A solid Black Widow story marred past questionable art decisions (I mean, seriously, await at the cover. Literally no one looks or stands like that) and gross overuse of slurs confronting women to prove characters are tough. Use of Yelena was great; apply of Matt was kind of boring.
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