A review by kacey
Black Widow: The Name of the Rose by Nate Piekos, Marjorie Liu, Daniel Acuña

3.0

This book is decent and packed with information about Black Widow for those who are less familiar with her story. I do find, however that it suffers from the same problem that other Black Widow comics do. It spends so much time making sure that Natasha is revealing as few secrets as possible to anyone that it includes the reader. There is a lot of "No, it can't possibly be...!" or "How did someone learn about THAT?" with little expansion on what these things are until near the end. It's not terrible story telling, but it is frustrating, especially since Natasha's story isn't part of the know. cultural collective like, say, Spider-man or Batman.
This trade weaves a fine web of intrigue, but it leaves things dangling just a little too long for my personal tastes. I can only imagine how much worse it would have been to read the story in issue format.