So continuing on with Richard K. Morgan’s Black Widow run was an ultimately fun time. I didn’t like this volume as much as I liked the first one. The vibes felt a little different, and this volume was drastically darker—which isn’t a bad thing in most case scenarios,—but the way some of the serious topics were dealt with made me uncomfortable. Also, a lot of homophobia in here which hindered my enjoyment some, but I tried to look past both these issues since these comic runs are from over fifteen years ago.

Aside from the problematic aspects, I really loved Natasha in this collection. She’s so fucking unapologetic and badass, and she does not give a single fuck. Nat will do whatever she needs to do to get to a means 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 have done to Nat’s character. I loved seeing Yelena again, and while personality wise, Yelena comics vs. mcu are pretty different, I still love both of them separately.

The 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? It just personally wasn’t my cup of tea, but I will admit there were a few pretty panels here a there. But if I could avoid reading more with this art style, I probably would. The plot line wasn’t the best in this one. In fact, I was kinda over the plot by #3. The only reason I rated this 3 stars instead of 2.5 was because of Natasha. That’s it, Natasha is one of the coolest characters I’ve ever read about.