ComicsAlliance has been drawing up parody movie Avengers posters, and this is one of them:
Following yesterday’s ’80s take on the team, we’ve shifted to a more gender-swapped theme that casts the women of Marvel — and one totally goofy character we had to make up — as the stars of the cinematic team-up. Standing in for the mostly male movie team we have She-Hulk, Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), Rescue (Pepper Potts), Maria Hill, American Dream, Thor Girl and… um… “Dead Husband” (a male S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who is the opposite of Black Widow? She doesn’t have a real male counterpart!).
The slight irony being that Natasha’s (mostly) dead husband, Red Guardian is a costumed codenamed type that could probably serve as a fair counterpart. Heck, draw him up in the Ronin outfit and you even have a certain visual similarity. Others have suggested Bucky as her opposite number, but I think it’s to the benefit of both characters that they aren’t widely considered opposite numbers. Like all the rule 63 going on in this picture, Alexi was created to deepen Natasha’s mythology and legacy.
Scarlet Spider #4 variant— Mike Del Mundo after Milton Avery
Quite fond of the little hat Natasha was wearing in Black Widow No.2. But I realised I drawn the wrong style of hat just now…poo.
Seriously, to a lady’s eye like my own, a trilby hat is somewhat similar to a fedora or a stetson. Maybe I should have a short study on hats before I draw it next time.
