Fuck Yeah, Black Widow

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April 2011

195 posts

March 2011

96 posts

Review: Captain America and the Secret Avengers

Lemme cut to the chase and spare you the trademark tl;dr: if you like the idea of Black Widow and Agent 13 buddy teaming it up, you will probably like this issue. If you like your espionage adventures over the top and with a healthy dose of miniskirt, you will probably like this issue. If these things just aren’t your bag, baby, then this is where you and I should part ways. Upon...

Thoughts on Avengers #83

It took until the early 1970s for sixties radicalism to catch up to Marvel Comics, but catch up it did. You know the score, Hal Jordan: you help the blue skins and the purple skins, but what about the black skins? There’s a lot I could say about Natasha’s 1970s reinvention, the black catsuit adopted in Amazing Spider-Man #86 to fit in with the “swinging” era, her abrupt...

I have a feeling this week I’m going to be writing a lot about awesome relationships that drowned in the comic book river of limbo. So here’s something completely different, a relationship that a lot of people think of, but doesn’t actually have a ton of history. Fun fact: last year’s Black Widow #3 was the first time Natasha and Elektra met on panel. Wait wait, you...

Two New Avengers Variants

By Amanda Conner. By Rich Ellis. These were done for a Hero Initiative auction. You can see more variants here.

We work well together.

From Black Widow and the Marvel Girls #4, by Paul Tobin and Takeshi Miyazawa.

Thoughts on Diggle's Thunderbolts Run

To close out Thunderbolts week, I thought I would review Andy Diggle’s run that I’ve been spamming the past few days. Diggle had the admittedly thankless job of following Warren “Fucking” Ellis’s reinvention of the series, so he named his first arc after a Talking Heads song and brought in a whole new team of Z-listers. Being the kind of person to run a Black...

Have you seen the preview for Captain America 616? Well, let me recap: That would be Ursa Major, longtime survivor of the Winter Guard. Could their confrontation have something to do with this? Ursa Major, are you secretly dating Black Widow? From Captain America #616 and Darkstar and the Winter Guard #1.