By revisiting her past with Daredevil, will Natasha be able to finally figure out who's behind Icepick Protocol? She better figure it out quickly before Hawkeye kills Mockingbird, and Hercules kills them ALL!
Paul Cornell is a British writer of science fiction and fantasy prose, comics and television. He's been Hugo Award-nominated for all three media, and has won the BSFA Award for his short fiction, and the Eagle Award for his comics. He's the writer of Saucer Country for Vertigo, Demon Knights for DC, and has written for the Doctor Who TV series. His new urban fantasy novel is London Falling, out from Tor on December 6th.
Confused again lol. This was all over the place, and not enough red room backstory for my liking. #HateIvan he’s literally disgusting. Also I was happy to see Matt Murdock in this one, he’s always been a character I’ve been intrigued by. I didn’t know that Matt and Nat dated in Earth 616, so I’ll have to check out their comic runs together bc that honestly sounds amazing.
Also is it weird I didn’t know Hercules was a marvel hero before this?? Like I’ve not done any deep dives in marvel comics besides a collect few of Black Widow and Winter Soldier. I just never knew marvel made Hercules a comic hero, which is interesting to me.
Anyway, I wasn’t too impressed by anything in this one either. If Matt didn’t show up, this probably would have been a 2 star. This story as a whole just doesn’t really do much for me in terms of Natasha. I’m only really reading this run for more on her backstory.
this turns out to be the story of how ivan is the big bad that inflicted the nanites to nat and everyone she was with because "i didnt want to be your father. or your guardian. or your uncle. or your friend. i wanted more than that."
art style remains bad af
short hair nat flashback when she lead the avengers
nat and hercules "ah it is just like old times. the son of zeus and his lover and general have felled many foes!" *nat lead the champions aka hercules, angel, ghost rider, iceman "why should suchdisparate people stay together? because we're not disparate at all."
nat and matt murdock "being a costumed adventurer -- it feels... go on, say 'decadent' again. in yout accent it turns me on. i know who you are natasha. just because ypuve got this fixation that you'll always hurt the ones you love-- matt... i still feel manipulated. not by you. youve let me start to heal. but ive had my mind interfered with so many times... i still feel like theres something... i cant trust." "and if you miss those days, remmeber-- it was your choice to move on. i guess now i do know how ivan felt."
oh and once again sexualising girls kissing girls as they make nat kiss bobbi to give her the cure with no reason "her pulse is normal, she should wae soon. ive injected myself with counter nanites supplied by an old friend. the kiss was the quickest way to-- well... touching her t=with my palm would have done it too. like this. but why do we wear these costumes if not for the theater? 'tasha...i only just got her back. i thought she was dead. again. you bring this trouble to my door, you laugh about it... if this is trying to provoke me again, like the old days-- thats exactly the reaction they were after, whoever did this. 'you cant trust her. shes messed up. dirty.' you have no idea how fa it's gone-- why i have to laugh about it."
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