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Marvel's Black Widow Prelude
by Peter David
I've read a handful of these Marvel flick tie-in comics, and they always follow pretty similar patterns: hasty drawings of scenes you can see rendered better in the movies, with scant interstitial frames that do little to illuminate much of anything. It's the kind of stuff that usually winds up on the cutting room floor, or written out of scripts in the first place.
This is, alas, more of the same. Did you think that Black Widow scooping up Cap's shield in Seoul was a crucial character moment? This book certainly does. In fact, almost every major or minor beat BW has been a part of pre-Infinity War is... not so much lovingly recounted as lazily redrawn here. There's no real consideration as to why they're included, and it feels more like a highlight reel you'd find slapped together on YouTube, dumped through a comic book filter. They've made cursory attempts at removing some of the more blatantly sexist aspects, but given that objectification was pretty much the only point of the included scenes from, say, Iron Man 2, I'm not really sure why they're here at all.
Unsurprisingly then, this is thoroughly terrible, quite worthless in fact, just like all the other Marvel Prelude comics. The vintage issues included are... fine... they haven't really aged well and Marvel remixes characters so much for their films that I doubt the introductions of Taskmaster and Red Guardian will be particularly useful. The only saving grace is the teaser for Web Of Black Widow -- but if that ends up being better, you can just grab it on its own. This, you can comfortably skip; as a Marvel movie fan I give you my blessing and assurance that you won't miss a thing.
This is, alas, more of the same. Did you think that Black Widow scooping up Cap's shield in Seoul was a crucial character moment? This book certainly does. In fact, almost every major or minor beat BW has been a part of pre-Infinity War is... not so much lovingly recounted as lazily redrawn here. There's no real consideration as to why they're included, and it feels more like a highlight reel you'd find slapped together on YouTube, dumped through a comic book filter. They've made cursory attempts at removing some of the more blatantly sexist aspects, but given that objectification was pretty much the only point of the included scenes from, say, Iron Man 2, I'm not really sure why they're here at all.
Unsurprisingly then, this is thoroughly terrible, quite worthless in fact, just like all the other Marvel Prelude comics. The vintage issues included are... fine... they haven't really aged well and Marvel remixes characters so much for their films that I doubt the introductions of Taskmaster and Red Guardian will be particularly useful. The only saving grace is the teaser for Web Of Black Widow -- but if that ends up being better, you can just grab it on its own. This, you can comfortably skip; as a Marvel movie fan I give you my blessing and assurance that you won't miss a thing.