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Black Widow created by Lee, Rico and Heck & is © Marvel Entertainment.

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Foggy: Natasha?? Did-did the press see you come in here?
Natasha: Please. Listen very carefully… you have to find him and you have to get him out of the country. Cash yourself out and move to Paris or Argentina. Both of you. You can’t fight this.
Foggy: I don’t know where he is.
Natasha: Then you leave. Do it now.
Foggy: I can’t just leave him.
Natasha: You’re going to go to jail. And Matt can’t help you and no one’s going to help him. Half because people suck generally and half because Matt has pushed everyone away. There’s nothing standing between you and this. It’s over. Let me get you out of the country.
Foggy: I— I can’t just leave him.

Finally guys, this is where it gets personal: Bendis’s Daredevil was my introduction to Black Widow. It’s not my favorite interpretation, but it is what first made me interested in the character. So without Bendis, this blog wouldn’t exist!! So happy birthday, Bendis, and thank you.

From Daredevil #77, by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev.

Doing it Wrong: Spider-man/Daredevil

I like to think I’m pretty reasonable person for a comic book fan on the internet— I wanna enjoy my hobby, so I don’t sweat the continuity or the $3.99 price tag. I try to refrain from doing my best sycophantic loon impression arguing with Dan Slott on the internet. In the long run, I’m convinced this makes my hair look better.

But sometimes shit is just wrong wrong wrong, and writing tl;dr blog entries is the only way to cope. So I present to you the first in a series brought to you by the letter pent-up rage.

Spider-man/Daredevil: Unusual Suspects is a 2001 Marvel Knights mini written by Paul Jenkins and with art by Phil Winslade. It’s a standard Spider-man/Daredevil team up (nobody saw that one coming) with all the paragraphs of expository dialogue only late-90s/early-2000s Marvel comics can provide. The B-plot features a team-up between Black Widow and Foggy Nelson. This is where things go wrong.

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As the credits indicate, this is Frank Miller’s first issue on Daredevil. Matt can’t fight off the attackers without giving away his secret identity. Here’s some of Natasha’s inner monologue from the rest of this sequence:

Daredevil can’t make a move while their attention is on him. I’ll have to provide my old partner with a diversion. Unless this blasted dress trips me up.

The “blasted dress” is a green poncho thing, with some strappy heels. Natasha seems to wear green a lot.

From Daredevil #158 by Roger McKenzie and Frank Miller.