Black Widow #2 comicbook review

Black Widow #2 comic book review
Written by Marjorie Liu
Art by Daniel Acuna
Published by Marvel Comics

The creative team of the Black Widow started off the first issue with a bang and I really liked the direction this book was taking. The question being now could they maintain what they had started in the first issue? My answer is a resounding yes. I can't state strongly enough how much I love this version of the Black Widow and how they are pacing the story so far to date.

Issue number 2 starts up with a flashback sequence of the Black Widow in a soldier's uniform
out in the middle of the snow struggling as she heads off into the
forest.The look on her face speaks volumes of the pain she is in.
Jumping to the present day as the Widow is jolted awake and starts to take in her surroundings. The dialogue for the first 3 pages is almost nonexistent. That always impresses me when a writer can commit that amount of trust to the artist to pull this part of the story off just with the power of his/her images and that it works.Bravo guys.
Wolverine shows up just as the Widow is trying to leave the Hospital and they have a brief conversation that made me smile at first but then it got deadly serious with implications of what was to come.
As she tries to make it out of the Hospital the Widow id attacked by several agents posing as Hospital staff and she dispatches them easily. Even when she runs into a security detail she makes short work of them quickly and easily. You have to also consider that she has stitches in her and was cut open not that long ago. The widow is playing this very hardcore. Here's a little snippet of a conversation to give you an idea of just how hard she's playing this game:Logan: 3 days in bed.that's what the doctors said.Or so I heard.
Widow: I don't think so.
Logan: Just a flesh wound, right?
Widow: Bleeding stumps are flesh wounds. What I've got is a scratch.
DAMN.
She's playing for keeps.
It's finally revealed what was taken from the Widows body and I'm not going to ruin it for anyone but suffice it to say that the Widow is starting to look like a traitor to those shadowy government types. Even the heroes that have had past liaisons with her are having doubts themselves.

The Widow finds herself inside a bar where she has a safe house,weapons and everything else she'll need to go to war with whoever is manipulating her and her friends. As she gears up,we start to realise just how personal this whole affair is to her and how she'll handle it.

By the end of this book they'll be a lot of people gunning for her and it'll all start with Elektra in the following issue. The widow is now persona non grata and everyone wants to make a name for themselves by taking her down.

Issue 3 will get very interesting.

Later.

Rich.