Originally Posted by
CraigTheCylon
The whole icy-calm attitude that's common to assassins in fiction, I find, is harder to pull off than it looks. Blackman's trying, that much is clear, but there's a point at which you strip so much expression from a character's thoughts and speech that it goes past practiced taciturn and ends up just being kinda boring. I had the same problem with the first few issues of Nathan Edmondson's Black Widow - haven't read the latter issues yet so maybe that's improved, I dunno.
To make this clear, I'm not asking for one-liners or Elektra exchanging quips like a bad '80s Stallone action flick or anything. That would be wildly OOC. But even without humour there's a world of euphemisms and shorthand and slang terms and other expressions that could/would make her feel more fleshed-out without sacrificing what works about her. She might be cold but she's not a robot. She's had a life, with all the love and pain and misery and delight that entails, and just because she's willingly suppressing a lot of it in her memory doesn't mean it hasn't affected her worldview.
All that said, it's pretty clear you care more about this character than I do, so if you're enjoying the series this much, Blackman's plainly doing something right.