The title is long and unwieldy, but the story is short and tight. Shortly after Star Wars: A New Hope ends, the Rebel Alliance is abandoning Yavin IV, scattering, and will end up meeting at a new destination. One of the recon teams has been ambushed by the Empire’s Intelligence Service and all are dead but one. That one operative knows too much to fall into Imperial hands. Princess Dr. Leia* asks Han Solo and Chewbacca to retrieve the operative and get him back to […]
Along Comes a Spider
I know the Marvel movie and comics universes are separate, but I would pay money to see a movie version of the Molot Boga and Damon Dran story. Sure, after 2 volumes I don’t know where the Chaos story is going, but there’s an interesting movie in there. There’s enough that we don’t know about Natasha’s life, that a non-Avengers Black Widow movie would be viable. I’d love to see more of the Natasha/Tori Raven relationship. The Finely Woven Thread made me feel like Marvel does […]
You’ve got red on you
Fresh off the high of watching Captain America: Civil War, and praying for Scarlett Johansson to get a solo Black Widow movie (seriously, she kicks so much ass), I decided to check out one of the lady’s solo titles. I have previously avoided most Avengers-related comics as I find them really difficult to jump into, with so many crossovers and characters that I end up spending more time Googling than I do reading. However, this story was completely stand-alone, requiring no previous knowledge of the […]