Black Widow #1 Review: REDRUM No More

Writer: Kelly Thompson / Artist: Elena Casagrande / Marvel Comics I don’t want to hear nothing about a solo movie or how hurt you are about her Endgame death. Why? Because Kelly Thompson’s Black Widow #1 comic is so dam good, I don’t even know where to begin! I guess I need to acknowledge and pay homage to the other half of this dynamic artist duo, Elena Casagrane. The panels in this book are YOGA FLAMESSS. In the metropolitan scenes, it feel like you’re looking at gorgeous photographs of modern day city life. Then Jordie Bellaire comes through and adds the bomb colors to complete Casagrande’s vision and everything is astounding. I love the aggressive use of red. It turns the assassin levels up to a level of gore your fav could never. I love when artists properly depict the hero’s progression in a fight so beautifully that you can spend minutes staring at sections of a page. This book is all of that and some!

I’m really feeling the direction Kelly Thompson is taking Nat in her world of Black Widow. There are obviously villains at play, but issue #1 forces the evil doers to take a back seat to impressive writing, so we can see how Natasha can flourish in a non-homicidal way. Dare I say, I loved it?! Knocking out thugs with face tats, backslapping lackeys, and breaking dozens of bones in a 2-minute time span without leaving a trace is great and all. But commanding professional respect from men at a construction site, making impulse purchases on the sexiest…