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Elektra (2001) (Collected Editions)
Elektra: The Scorpio Key
S.H.I.E.L.D. offers Elektra a mission so dirty, so difficult, no one else could pull it off. But if Elektra takes the job, she'll do it her way.
160 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2002
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About the author
Brian Michael Bendis
4,414 books2,575 followersA comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim (including five Eisner Awards) and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics. For over eight years Bendis’s books have consistently sat in the top five best sellers on the nationwide comic and graphic novel sales charts.
Though he started as a writer and artist of independent noir fiction series, he shot to stardom as a writer of Marvel Comics' superhero books, particularly Ultimate Spider-Man.
Bendis first entered the comic world with the "Jinx" line of crime comics in 1995. This line has spawned the graphic novels Goldfish, Fire, Jinx, Torso (with Marc Andreyko), and Total Sell Out. Bendis is writing the film version of Jinx for Universal Pictures with Oscar-winner Charlize Theron attached to star and produce.
Bendis’s other projects include the Harvey, Eisner, and Eagle Award-nominated Powers (with Michael Avon Oeming) originally from Image Comics, now published by Marvel's new creator-owned imprint Icon Comics, and the Hollywood tell-all Fortune and Glory from Oni Press, both of which received an "A" from Entertainment Weekly.
Bendis is one of the premiere architects of Marvel's "Ultimate" line: comics specifically created for the new generation of comic readers. He has written every issue of Ultimate Spider-Man since its best-selling launch, and has also written for Ultimate Fantastic Four and Ultimate X-Men, as well as every issue of Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Ultimate Origin and Ultimate Six.
Brian is currently helming a renaissance for Marvel’s AVENGERS franchise by writing both New Avengers and Mighty Avengers along with the successful ‘event’ projects House Of M, Secret War, and this summer’s Secret Invasion.
He has also previously done work on Daredevil, Alias, and The Pulse.
Though he started as a writer and artist of independent noir fiction series, he shot to stardom as a writer of Marvel Comics' superhero books, particularly Ultimate Spider-Man.
Bendis first entered the comic world with the "Jinx" line of crime comics in 1995. This line has spawned the graphic novels Goldfish, Fire, Jinx, Torso (with Marc Andreyko), and Total Sell Out. Bendis is writing the film version of Jinx for Universal Pictures with Oscar-winner Charlize Theron attached to star and produce.
Bendis’s other projects include the Harvey, Eisner, and Eagle Award-nominated Powers (with Michael Avon Oeming) originally from Image Comics, now published by Marvel's new creator-owned imprint Icon Comics, and the Hollywood tell-all Fortune and Glory from Oni Press, both of which received an "A" from Entertainment Weekly.
Bendis is one of the premiere architects of Marvel's "Ultimate" line: comics specifically created for the new generation of comic readers. He has written every issue of Ultimate Spider-Man since its best-selling launch, and has also written for Ultimate Fantastic Four and Ultimate X-Men, as well as every issue of Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Ultimate Origin and Ultimate Six.
Brian is currently helming a renaissance for Marvel’s AVENGERS franchise by writing both New Avengers and Mighty Avengers along with the successful ‘event’ projects House Of M, Secret War, and this summer’s Secret Invasion.
He has also previously done work on Daredevil, Alias, and The Pulse.
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June 25, 2020
This was laughably terrible! I mean, it got to the point where it was almost entertaining.
I feel like Bendis should ask Marvel to remove this from Marvel Unlimited because this is in the running for the worst comic I've ever read. I'm sure Austen is a sweet man with a family who loves him very much but this art was so terrible. I mean hilariously terrible. At times it looked like Elektra and this woman she's fighting were trying to discreetly take a whiz. If you don't believe me, take a look at some of this stuff:
Poor guy just doesn't seem to understand how to draw action sequences. Or how female bodies work. What intrigues a lot of people about Elektra, beyond her relationship with Matt, is her fighting prowess. She's a fantastic fighter so people pick up her comics expecting a lot of action. So, why hire an artist who's clearly ill equipped to be drawing action scenes? It was a match made in hell.
Bendis isn't getting off the hook here, either. This writing is so incredibly bland. Issue 7 doesn't even have speech. Ask me what this story was about? I can parrot the summary because none of the actual issues made any damn sense. Nothing was memorable. I think Fury hires Elektra to take out a terrorist in possession of the Scorpio Key. Hydra tries to recruit her for the same reason. It's not a premise that sounds boring on paper but somehow Bendis found a way.
Elektra has a damn personality but you wouldn't know if from reading this book. She doesn't seem to have many facial expressions throughout the 7 issues. I think I counted 3 and oh boy, were they comically drawn.
This was just a complete miss. I don't even understand objectively how someone could enjoy this series.
1 comedically terrible star.
I wish I could give negative stars for the pièce de résistance where they were too lazy to make up the rest of this fake obituary.
I feel like Bendis should ask Marvel to remove this from Marvel Unlimited because this is in the running for the worst comic I've ever read. I'm sure Austen is a sweet man with a family who loves him very much but this art was so terrible. I mean hilariously terrible. At times it looked like Elektra and this woman she's fighting were trying to discreetly take a whiz. If you don't believe me, take a look at some of this stuff:
Poor guy just doesn't seem to understand how to draw action sequences. Or how female bodies work. What intrigues a lot of people about Elektra, beyond her relationship with Matt, is her fighting prowess. She's a fantastic fighter so people pick up her comics expecting a lot of action. So, why hire an artist who's clearly ill equipped to be drawing action scenes? It was a match made in hell.
Bendis isn't getting off the hook here, either. This writing is so incredibly bland. Issue 7 doesn't even have speech. Ask me what this story was about? I can parrot the summary because none of the actual issues made any damn sense. Nothing was memorable. I think Fury hires Elektra to take out a terrorist in possession of the Scorpio Key. Hydra tries to recruit her for the same reason. It's not a premise that sounds boring on paper but somehow Bendis found a way.
Elektra has a damn personality but you wouldn't know if from reading this book. She doesn't seem to have many facial expressions throughout the 7 issues. I think I counted 3 and oh boy, were they comically drawn.
This was just a complete miss. I don't even understand objectively how someone could enjoy this series.
1 comedically terrible star.
I wish I could give negative stars for the pièce de résistance where they were too lazy to make up the rest of this fake obituary.
January 28, 2022
I'm crying this is the worst comic I've ever read. Oh my god where do I begin besides dying from laughter. The story is Elektra is hired by SHIELD to kill some Iraq dictator. Like... okay... Bad taste.
The art is SO bad. I've called other comics out for having bad art but this one really showed up and said hold my pen. This dude doesn't know how to draw faces or just women in general. This is not how women work, like at all.
Does Elektra have a personality? No and she has no facial expressions either besides poor attempts at one. Elektra hmmmm yes, lady ninja assassin. Let's get someone who can't draw women OR action and give a super uninteresting story to go with it! Double the terrible!!
There were pages of action, including one issue that had no dialogue but the art was hilariously bad. It was like the artist had never seen people (let alone one single woman in his entire life) fight before with the way they were just awkwardly posing at each other. As for the issue with no dialogue, fuck if I understood any of that after that weird interpretive dance that is supposed to pass as fighting.
If all THAT wasn't bad enough the art was also super lazy like they really half assed all of this lmao. I knew the art would be trash in terms of drawing Elektra in her costume but they yet again said hold my pen. Her outfit sucks so much and is super impractical. Most of this was just seeing her poorly drawn ass full out. It doesn't make any sense and they don't even try to draw her with underwear??? There was a part where her thing flipped up and we saw her whole cooch (but erased ofc like they drew the panel and someone was like dude wtf at least give her Barbie bits.) LIKE WHY NO PANTS, WHY NO PANTY?? Who goes to a fight ass out besides women drawn by 2001 gross pervy comic artists.
I would be offended by this shit if I weren't laughing so hard at how ugly and stupid it was. Like oh no wonder he was awful at drawing her face, he was more interested in other things.
The art is SO bad. I've called other comics out for having bad art but this one really showed up and said hold my pen. This dude doesn't know how to draw faces or just women in general. This is not how women work, like at all.
Does Elektra have a personality? No and she has no facial expressions either besides poor attempts at one. Elektra hmmmm yes, lady ninja assassin. Let's get someone who can't draw women OR action and give a super uninteresting story to go with it! Double the terrible!!
There were pages of action, including one issue that had no dialogue but the art was hilariously bad. It was like the artist had never seen people (let alone one single woman in his entire life) fight before with the way they were just awkwardly posing at each other. As for the issue with no dialogue, fuck if I understood any of that after that weird interpretive dance that is supposed to pass as fighting.
If all THAT wasn't bad enough the art was also super lazy like they really half assed all of this lmao. I knew the art would be trash in terms of drawing Elektra in her costume but they yet again said hold my pen. Her outfit sucks so much and is super impractical. Most of this was just seeing her poorly drawn ass full out. It doesn't make any sense and they don't even try to draw her with underwear??? There was a part where her thing flipped up and we saw her whole cooch (but erased ofc like they drew the panel and someone was like dude wtf at least give her Barbie bits.) LIKE WHY NO PANTS, WHY NO PANTY?? Who goes to a fight ass out besides women drawn by 2001 gross pervy comic artists.
I would be offended by this shit if I weren't laughing so hard at how ugly and stupid it was. Like oh no wonder he was awful at drawing her face, he was more interested in other things.
March 18, 2016
I'm not a fan of Chuck Austen's art. The cel-shaded look of early 2000s is not good-looking, and definitely too static for an action comic, which is what this story tries to be.
The Scorpio Key tells how Nick Fury hires Elektra to get the powerful McGuffin Key for him from the hands of awful political leader / dictator of Iraq, Saddam. Um what. I found the story extremely distasteful, especially considering that it was written around the time when the actual war of the US against Iraq was being promoted by Bush as a necessity. This read as terrible propaganda. And misrepresented Iraqi people, separating them in victims in need of a white American savior, or brutal fundamentalists.
And then, as befits the Marvel Knights era, the treatment of Elektra is very sad. What could we do with a cool ninja assassin? Treat her as less because she is a woman. Let's tell the story from the POV of a male and let every male say how much ass she kicks. That will surely show how cool she is. And let's treat her characteristic outfit as a sexual tease, instead of an empowering outfit (albeit useless, in my opinion, but I guess Elektra has her reasons). .
If you can get past that, the story is still not good. The dialogue is stilted and boring, the development of the plot relies on action scenes that haven't been built up enough. It's hard to care what happens to the people fighting.
The Scorpio Key tells how Nick Fury hires Elektra to get the powerful McGuffin Key for him from the hands of awful political leader / dictator of Iraq, Saddam. Um what. I found the story extremely distasteful, especially considering that it was written around the time when the actual war of the US against Iraq was being promoted by Bush as a necessity. This read as terrible propaganda. And misrepresented Iraqi people, separating them in victims in need of a white American savior, or brutal fundamentalists.
And then, as befits the Marvel Knights era, the treatment of Elektra is very sad. What could we do with a cool ninja assassin? Treat her as less because she is a woman. Let's tell the story from the POV of a male and let every male say how much ass she kicks. That will surely show how cool she is. And let's treat her characteristic outfit as a sexual tease, instead of an empowering outfit (albeit useless, in my opinion, but I guess Elektra has her reasons). .
If you can get past that, the story is still not good. The dialogue is stilted and boring, the development of the plot relies on action scenes that haven't been built up enough. It's hard to care what happens to the people fighting.
December 2, 2024
From the reviews I've read, I enjoyed this a little more than most readers. Overall, I thought this was okay. The covers by Greg Horn are gorgeous, but the interiors, while not bad, just didn't fit the story well. The story itself was okay. A Middle Eastern dictator has become allied with Hydra and acquired the Scorpio Key, which is one of those Marvel artifact weapons. SHIELD hires her to steal the key and assassinate the dictator. This is a very political story, although didn't come across as all that relevant. I am a Bendis fan, just for the record.
Not horrible, but not one of Elektra's finest moments.
Not horrible, but not one of Elektra's finest moments.
August 24, 2013
I really think Elektra is a great character and deserves a series of her own with some compelling stories. This story isn't quite as a high of a standard as I would like but it was certainly an interesting read. I love Brian Michael Bendis and this was unfortunately not up to his high standards. The dialogue tries hard to be snappy, but doesn't quite pull it off. The first issue is very choppy with little to no character development and some oddly graphic violence that tries to earn the Parental Warning. Setting the story in Iraq in 2001 definitely feels dated 12 years later, but characters like Stanley are never explained and seem very odd. For example, why does he wear that stupid, imperialist-looking hat all the time? Thankfully, the story gets better as it goes along and while I would never describe it as a great comic, it does come to a decent conclusion. The final issue tied directly into Daredevil which was surprising, but nice to see.
As strange as the story was, the art is also very different. It has a very flat, cel-shaded look which I don't think fits Elektra all that well. The coloring has a weird foggy look to it too. I would describe this art as just okay, because the action in some panels isn't very fluid. The art doesn't really compliment the book that well, but there are a couple of nice panels, particularly landscapes in Iraq.
This was one of the stranger comics I've ever read, but there was just enough here to get me to read more of this series. It will be interesting to see what a new writer and artist bring to a book that needs a stronger identity and direction.
As strange as the story was, the art is also very different. It has a very flat, cel-shaded look which I don't think fits Elektra all that well. The coloring has a weird foggy look to it too. I would describe this art as just okay, because the action in some panels isn't very fluid. The art doesn't really compliment the book that well, but there are a couple of nice panels, particularly landscapes in Iraq.
This was one of the stranger comics I've ever read, but there was just enough here to get me to read more of this series. It will be interesting to see what a new writer and artist bring to a book that needs a stronger identity and direction.
March 20, 2023
I was excited to read this. My expectations were high. Were they met?
Ummm...no. no, they were not 🙈.
This should have been terrific. Elektra is marvel's samurai ninja. A strong female character created by Frank Miller during his Daredevil run and then famously killed in a battle with Bullseye.
'This Blade I am holding... I have died at the end of it.'
Resurrected by shadowy ninja organisation The Hand.
Bendis should have been the ideal choice for the first story arc of this 2001/2002 series in the gritty Marvel Knights range as his own run on Daredevil was incredible.
We get a spy story with Nick Fury and SHIELD on one side, bringing in Elektra as a rogue operative on a mission in Iraq where Hydra are working with Saddam (ok, not that Saddam but a thinly disguised version).
The elements are in place but it's trying to be too worthy and political in the wake of 9/11 and apart from a few moments it's actually quite tedious.
A shock WTF ending to issue 1 was explained in the next issue but left me wondering what Elektra's powers actually are as it made little sense.
Some scenes have very little dialogue and issue 4 has far too much with double page spreads with tv news footage across the top, different news footage across the bottom, and action sandwiched in the middle.
Just not enjoyable to read.
The cover has great art but although the book promises interior art from artist extraordinaire Chuck Austen the only thing extraordinary is that he was given the job. Some scenes do look suitably moody for the story but mostly it's terrible facial expressions and poor anatomy and he seems to completely give up by issue 6 which is a separate story with no dialogue, and in an unexplained fight scene the poses and action is laughable.
Elektra suddenly looks like a stick figure gone wrong 😂. Has Chuck ever seen what people look like?🤣
It's an epic fail. Sorry to anyone that likes this run but it wasn't for me.
✨✨ 2 Stars and that's being generous.
Ummm...no. no, they were not 🙈.
This should have been terrific. Elektra is marvel's samurai ninja. A strong female character created by Frank Miller during his Daredevil run and then famously killed in a battle with Bullseye.
'This Blade I am holding... I have died at the end of it.'
Resurrected by shadowy ninja organisation The Hand.
Bendis should have been the ideal choice for the first story arc of this 2001/2002 series in the gritty Marvel Knights range as his own run on Daredevil was incredible.
We get a spy story with Nick Fury and SHIELD on one side, bringing in Elektra as a rogue operative on a mission in Iraq where Hydra are working with Saddam (ok, not that Saddam but a thinly disguised version).
The elements are in place but it's trying to be too worthy and political in the wake of 9/11 and apart from a few moments it's actually quite tedious.
A shock WTF ending to issue 1 was explained in the next issue but left me wondering what Elektra's powers actually are as it made little sense.
Some scenes have very little dialogue and issue 4 has far too much with double page spreads with tv news footage across the top, different news footage across the bottom, and action sandwiched in the middle.
Just not enjoyable to read.
The cover has great art but although the book promises interior art from artist extraordinaire Chuck Austen the only thing extraordinary is that he was given the job. Some scenes do look suitably moody for the story but mostly it's terrible facial expressions and poor anatomy and he seems to completely give up by issue 6 which is a separate story with no dialogue, and in an unexplained fight scene the poses and action is laughable.
Elektra suddenly looks like a stick figure gone wrong 😂. Has Chuck ever seen what people look like?🤣
It's an epic fail. Sorry to anyone that likes this run but it wasn't for me.
✨✨ 2 Stars and that's being generous.
March 9, 2022
2.4
ehhhhhh idk man. the plot concept works, it's just weak in so many places it can't support the politically loaded subject matter it dumps at you - at many times through pages long tv news reports overlaid on another scene while a completely *different* tv station is being overlaid on the bottom of the page as well, leading to a very disjointed reading experience that is cooler in theory within the comic art form than it is pleasant in execution
ignoring all of *that*, elektra's powers are weird af, and honestly i'm liking that comic book herald's reading order starts you after a lot of the characters are established with backstory and a past. makes the flashbacks to their origins more pertinent to the plot, and i can learn about the marvel universe kinda back and forth, filling in the gaps as i go
ehhhhhh idk man. the plot concept works, it's just weak in so many places it can't support the politically loaded subject matter it dumps at you - at many times through pages long tv news reports overlaid on another scene while a completely *different* tv station is being overlaid on the bottom of the page as well, leading to a very disjointed reading experience that is cooler in theory within the comic art form than it is pleasant in execution
ignoring all of *that*, elektra's powers are weird af, and honestly i'm liking that comic book herald's reading order starts you after a lot of the characters are established with backstory and a past. makes the flashbacks to their origins more pertinent to the plot, and i can learn about the marvel universe kinda back and forth, filling in the gaps as i go
July 25, 2022
Was going to be nice and give this two stars, until I read issue #4, which consisted of three storylines (two of which were pretty much irrelevant) unfolding over nothing but double-spread pages drawn in an extremely irksome art style, making it hard to take any of blocky characters seriously. Issue #6 had absolutely no dialogue, and I normally love it when Marvel comics make an issue comprised solely of art without any dialogue (like that issue of Deadpool where Wade has some… ear obstructions?). I don’t like it when that’s not utilized or taken advantage of, and the art just feels like recycled material jumbled together into a quick-scan issue that takes all of two minutes getting through.
Hopefully things get better in the next three volumes.
Hopefully things get better in the next three volumes.
December 4, 2023
What can I add that hasn't been said already?
This is a rough read. Bendis is his typical wordy self. There's a TV show interview across several pages that is just FILLED with dialogue. Austen (who I think just came back to comics at the time [2002]) is definitely hip deep in doing his art digitally. Lots of 3D Studio Max and Photoshop got used. Maybe that's why lots of Austen's work looks rough.
This isn't great, but it's not horrid either. I don't know why this fell under the Marvel Knights banner. There's nothing really edgy here. Maybe, at the time it was...too political (or otherwise on the nose) for Marvel.
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Bonus: A LMD of someone that looks like Matt Murdock? Good job, Fury.
Bonus Bonus: Follow the Scorpio Key. Where did it end up next after this?
This is a rough read. Bendis is his typical wordy self. There's a TV show interview across several pages that is just FILLED with dialogue. Austen (who I think just came back to comics at the time [2002]) is definitely hip deep in doing his art digitally. Lots of 3D Studio Max and Photoshop got used. Maybe that's why lots of Austen's work looks rough.
This isn't great, but it's not horrid either. I don't know why this fell under the Marvel Knights banner. There's nothing really edgy here. Maybe, at the time it was...too political (or otherwise on the nose) for Marvel.
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Bonus: A LMD of someone that looks like Matt Murdock? Good job, Fury.
Bonus Bonus: Follow the Scorpio Key. Where did it end up next after this?
April 11, 2019
Very set in the time in which it was written. Definitely comes off dated. The story was moderately interesting but the art really dragged it down. The colors were diluted and the artist is just really bad at drawing faces and using perspective. Everyone looks like their faces are pressed to glass and in a few panels elektra's arms were so long I wondered if I missed that she gained stretch powers. Overall I don't regret reading it so 3 stars seems the appropriate meh
February 28, 2021
This might legitimately be the worst book I've ever read. I don't know what Bendis was thinking, but if it wasn't part of a reading list I'm working through I wouldn't have even finished it. The art is as bad as the story, and while I know they could never have predicted it, the fact that most of these issues came out right after 9/11 happened just adds a whole new awful twist to this in retrospect.
May 28, 2018
Convoluted and poorly written. Bad art. The worst of what a comic could be. Elektra is the best assassin...maybe ever? And she is very boring in this. There are a couple issues with no or very little dialogue, which I generally love, but the art is so bad that it isn't even enjoyable. Skip!
July 18, 2023
Chuck Austen's art is even worse than his writing.
March 14, 2011
This was pretty much a light read. The assassin known as Elektra is hired by Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. for a dangerous mission. She is to assassinate the leader of Iraq (basically it is Saddam Hussein, just different name) and to steal an artifact known as the Scorpio Key. Hydra, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s nemesis organization has allied itself with Saddam, and they have an interest in the artifact as well. Elektra, however, will do things her way.
The story may seem a bit dated now given how events turned out in Iraq in real life. Having said that, it is still a pretty entertaining tale. I did like the art in this one; Elektra is drawn quite nicely. The plot, well, it is a basic superhero plot, so there is not much depth. But it is a nice entertaining tale for a quick read. If you like Elektra or she is a favorite of yours in the Marvel Universe, you will probably enjoy this book.
The story may seem a bit dated now given how events turned out in Iraq in real life. Having said that, it is still a pretty entertaining tale. I did like the art in this one; Elektra is drawn quite nicely. The plot, well, it is a basic superhero plot, so there is not much depth. But it is a nice entertaining tale for a quick read. If you like Elektra or she is a favorite of yours in the Marvel Universe, you will probably enjoy this book.
August 20, 2009
Elektra the assassin tells her story of recovering the Scorpio Key from Sadaam Hussein and her involvement with Nick Fury over this. She decides that Fury shouldn't have the key but that it should be in the hands of another.
I did enjoy this story and it had a nice balance between the macinations of Fury and Elektra's determination to stay neutral. Some of the pictures are a little too fanboyish but overall it's not a bad read. Elektra has potential to be a strong female character but she's occasionally stymied by her image and how she's portrayed.
I did enjoy this story and it had a nice balance between the macinations of Fury and Elektra's determination to stay neutral. Some of the pictures are a little too fanboyish but overall it's not a bad read. Elektra has potential to be a strong female character but she's occasionally stymied by her image and how she's portrayed.
June 15, 2014
To me, Elektra is one of the best. But sadly, this Marvel Knights opening story was.... just weak. There were good points (Nick Fury, yay. LMD in love, yay) but after reading.... it was just: "oh well".
Then again, there is also that story with no words, which was brilliant. To me that story what Elektra is all about. She does not say all that much (if anything at all), but she is deadly and beautiful.
Nice art by Austen also. Rough.
Then again, there is also that story with no words, which was brilliant. To me that story what Elektra is all about. She does not say all that much (if anything at all), but she is deadly and beautiful.
Nice art by Austen also. Rough.
March 27, 2019
Je crois n'avoir jamais lu une BD aussi mauvaise, si mauvaise qu'elle en devenait presque drôle par moment. Rien ne peut sauver cet ouvrage : ni le dessin, affreux et incongru, impossible de remarquer les mouvements des personnages, ni l'histoire, banale et sans intérêt. Rien ne fait honneur à Elektra !
May 23, 2014
Electra kicks some ass for Nick Fury.
Bendis plays with his early favorite subjects of espionage. He does a lot of it well. There are parts where it slogs but I think that's mostly Austen's fault. If it was a different artist perhaps the scenes would've been better.
Bendis plays with his early favorite subjects of espionage. He does a lot of it well. There are parts where it slogs but I think that's mostly Austen's fault. If it was a different artist perhaps the scenes would've been better.
July 12, 2015
2.5
There was consistently either too much text, or almost no text - a happy medium would've been much more enjoyable. I liked the cover art, but the art in the actual stories wasn't my favorite. This isn't the best Bendis or the best Elektra.
There was consistently either too much text, or almost no text - a happy medium would've been much more enjoyable. I liked the cover art, but the art in the actual stories wasn't my favorite. This isn't the best Bendis or the best Elektra.
April 5, 2016
2.5-3/5
Definitely not Bendis' best work, and it's a little too meta-political for my likes. Bendis does many things very well, but in this case subtlety isn't one of them. Also, the art wasn't the best.
All that aside, I love the idea of a sentient LMD. I'd love to see more of that.
Definitely not Bendis' best work, and it's a little too meta-political for my likes. Bendis does many things very well, but in this case subtlety isn't one of them. Also, the art wasn't the best.
All that aside, I love the idea of a sentient LMD. I'd love to see more of that.
June 24, 2016
This was a strong series. The art is very unique and stylized. I highly recommend it. Interesting take on the Iraq situation BEFORE the US went to war. An effective take on Elektra as a character.
I love the visual, almost cinematic storytelling of Brian Michael Bendis.
I love the visual, almost cinematic storytelling of Brian Michael Bendis.
January 21, 2015
The story was decent, but the art was really interesting.
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