I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates.The more knowledge the better seems like a solid rule of thumb, even though I have watched enough science fiction films to accept that humanity’s unchecked pursuit of learning will end with robots taking over the world.-Sarah Vowell

Friday, September 14, 2018

Black Widow Vol. 1: The Finely Woven Thread by Nathan Edmondson (Writer), Phil Noto (Artist), VC's Clayton Cowles (Letterer)


Natasha Romanov, Black Widow, has a lawyer, Issah,  who sets up jobs for her that pay good money, but not outrageous money. She does not intend to make money on these jobs. She just plans on funding her Webs or her secret trust funds that help others and working for the Avengers doesn't pay enough to do that so she has to take jobs to do that.  Of course, she chooses which jobs to take and they are vetted in advance.

On one job she is asked by a Mr. Lin to quietly find his illegitimate son who has been kidnapped. When she gets aboard the boat no one is alive. The situation seems familiar but she can't place why.  When she goes back to see Mr. Lin, he is dead.  Who from her past is behind this?  Meanwhile, back at home, Issah is being threatened by someone who wants to get at Natasha.

The Avengers hire her to plant some bugs on an Embassy that explodes. She chases the guy who sets the bomb and he speaks Russian.  The man behind the attack is Molot Boga who plans on targeting the Croatian Ambassador in Cape Town. The same Russian who calls himself the Hammer of the God shows up to kill the Ambassador, Black Widow must try to stop him and find Boga and figure out his end game.

These collections of stories are great.  There's one where she's breaking someone out of prison who didn't do what he was accused of and things go horribly wrong.  Every time she goes home there's a cat that waits outside her door for her. She refuses to let it in because that would mean the cat was hers. She has named it, though, Liho and hangs out with it outside and talks to it.  This book concentrates on Black Widow alone with no appearances by any other Marvel superheroes to detract from its star who really shines in this comic.  I really loved this book and I greatly recommend it.   

Link to Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Widow-Vol-Finely-Thread-ebook/dp/B00PSN1C06/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536932106&sr=8-1&keywords=black+widow+the+finely+woven+thread  

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