Natasha Romanov: Black Widow Appreciation 2019

[Winterboy]

Very nice! Cover or interior?

Interior.

Last page, i guess.

[Darthfury78]

The Black Widow might have ties to Peter's parents. In particular, Richard Parker's espionage with Natasha within the Soviet Union and The Middle East. It would be fun to see Natasha get transported to Spider-Man Noir's world as that would be awesome to see, as this would answer your question regarding a stealth mission in the 1930's era...

[Winterboy]

The Black Widow might have ties to Peter's parents. In particular, Richard Parker's espionage with Natasha within the Soviet Union and The Middle East. It would be fun to see Natasha get transported to Spider-Man Noir's world as that would be awesome to see, as this would answer your question regarding a stealth mission in the 1930's era...

No, thanks.

[Winterboy]

Natasha and Sharon.

My favorite team-up in my favorite Secret Avengers issue ever.
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[Darthfury78]

No, thanks.

There are ideas that no one likes. But unlikely outcomes happens all the time in the Marvel Universe. Can't like something with out knowing what the story might be. No one felt that Deadpool should have anything to do with Spider-Man. Marvel took a chance with adding Wade to Peter's world. The outcome....Strong sales, as well as a storyline that future writers use as a blueprint!!!

[Digifiend]

Remember in Ultimate when Natasha gained Iron Man armor? Well, it happened again, in Spider-Man Life Story. She was, however, brainwashed.

[Winterboy]

Epic, Legends, Masterworks, Milestones, Complete – More Marvel Comics Big Books for 2020

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/07...ig-books-2020/

Black Widow: Welcome To The Game
By: Richard Morgan, Bill Sienkiewicz, Goran Parlov, Sean Phillips, Jan. 21, 2020, $34.99, Pages: 288. The deadliest agent in the Marvel Universe has finally gotten out of the spy game! The Black Widow’s not asking much – just a life of her own. But an assassination attempt provides a harsh reality check, kicking off a string of international killings that leads Natasha Romanoff back to a Russia she can barely recognize. Whoever said you can’t go home again never reckoned with the Black Widow! People may say that she’s a traitor, a murderer or worse. But one thing’s for sure – the Black Widow is not to be crossed! The last man foolish enough to do so paid the highest price, but his powerful friends will ensure that Natasha doesn’t get off easy…and not even Nick Fury can protect her this time!
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[Muffin Crud]

Florence is Yelena!!

Movie comes out May 1st 2020

[Punisher007]

Florence is a fantastic young actress. Hopefully they give her a meaty role to play.

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

Marvel Team-Up #83 Jul 1979
"Slaughter on 10th Avenue!" Part 2 of 4. Guest-starring Spider-Man, Nick Fury and the Black Widow.
In stunning fashion, the web-slinger and the widow have gone down to defeat at the hands
of SHIELD and its director, Nick Fury! Now the Black Widow is a prisoner of SHIELD,

and a dazed Spider-Man is trying to figure out what is going on.

When Natasha escapes from the SHIELD facility, she turns to her only friend left in Manhattan...Peter Parker!
At his Chelsea apartment, Aunt May's nephew is consoling Natasha, when all of a sudden Nick Fury kicks in the door!
Minutes later Boomerang attacks! And then the Silver Samurai!
It's a wild free-for-all with the wall-crawler and the Black Widow caught in the middle!

Script by Chris Claremont. Art by Sal Buscema (breakdowns) and Steve Leialoha (finishes).

[Whizbang]

Epic, Legends, Masterworks, Milestones, Complete – More Marvel Comics Big Books for 2020

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/07...ig-books-2020/

Black Widow: Welcome To The Game
By: Richard Morgan, Bill Sienkiewicz, Goran Parlov, Sean Phillips, Jan. 21, 2020, $34.99, Pages: 288. The deadliest agent in the Marvel Universe has finally gotten out of the spy game! The Black Widow’s not asking much – just a life of her own. But an assassination attempt provides a harsh reality check, kicking off a string of international killings that leads Natasha Romanoff back to a Russia she can barely recognize. Whoever said you can’t go home again never reckoned with the Black Widow! People may say that she’s a traitor, a murderer or worse. But one thing’s for sure – the Black Widow is not to be crossed! The last man foolish enough to do so paid the highest price, but his powerful friends will ensure that Natasha doesn’t get off easy…and not even Nick Fury can protect her this time!
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God, why can't they leave Homecoming in the pit Whedon found it in.

[Cowtools]

God, why can't they leave Homecoming in the pit Whedon found it in.

That's the one old Black Widow trade collection I haven't yet found a copy of and read.
What's so terrible about it?

[Winterboy]

First illustration...

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[Frontier]

First illustration...

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Not crazy about Taskmaster's design, and Widow's new costume looks a little busy.

[Whizbang]

That's the one old Black Widow trade collection I haven't yet found a copy of and read.
What's so terrible about it?

The panels included in the post is just one instance of how terrible the book is - instead of Natasha deciding to defect to the US herself, on her own free will, Morgan created this perfume/pheromone that basically mind-controls Natasha, has Nick Fury steal it and uses it to force Natasha to defect. Homecoming is the worst example of mansplaining feminism in superhero comics - basically Richard Morgan decided that Natasha's backstory was sexist so in order to "improve" her backstory he was going to give a backstory that was 1000% more sexist than her Silver & Bronze Age stories to show that old backstories were bad. So instead of a backstory were Natasha chose to join the KGB and chose to become a spy and then chose to defect to the US, he decided to recon all of that so she could grow in a murder orphanage with no choice but to become a spy and assassin and then was forced to defect by Fury. The whole series is about Natasha learning that her entire life was a lie, that she never had any free agency over anything she's ever done and then follows her reaction to that. Morgan's stuff is insulting & demeaning, gross & sexist, and was rightly ignored & treated as an forgotten AU by Marvel until Whedon dug it up and used it to influence his writing of MCU Natasha.