Red Widow: First Strike #1

Black Widow: One-Shots

by Margaret Stohl (Writer), Travis Lanham (Letterer), Andres Mossa (Colorist)

Superstar young adult author, Margaret Stohl (Beautiful Creatures), writer for the upcoming YA novel, Black Widow: Forever Red presents the all-new Red Widow!

Genres: Comics, Fiction

11 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 2, 2015

About the author

Margaret Stohl is the #1 New York Times, PW, USA Today, LA Times and Internationally bestselling co-author or author of twelve books, including the BEAUTIFUL CREATURES NOVELS, the DANGEROUS CREATURES NOVELS, the ICONS NOVELS, MARVEL'S BLACK WIDOW NOVELS, ROYCE ROLLS & CATS VS ROBOTS THIS IS WAR (forthcoming!) She writes the MIGHTY CAPTAIN MARVEL comic for Marvel Comics (ongoing) and has contributed to countless videogames; currently, she is a Narrative Director at Bungie.

From the author:

Goodreads Peeps! Please note I no longer review the books on my shelf, "stars"-wise. I do list books I read, and they're all automatically marked as 5 stars. That's because a) I don't list books that I didn't like enough to finish and b) I didn't want to delete the ratings I had already given. If I particularly love a book and feel inclined to comment, you'll still see the comments here. Sadly, I have to ask: please don't reproduce these comments on book jackets, websites, or in any other medium for the marketing of books. They're only meant for fellow goodreaders. Thanks so much!

ABOUT ME:

Writing has gotten me in and out of trouble since I was 15 (back then, mostly just in trouble.) For 10 years, I designed &/or wrote for lots of video games, one of which was nominated for “Most Innovative Game Design,” but I lost to a rapping onion. If you know games you get why my two bad beagles are named Zelda and Kirby.

School: I spent more years in it than a person ever should, because let’s face it, reading books is so much better than having a job. I fell in love with American literature at Amherst and Yale, earned an MA in English from Stanford, and studied creative writing under the late great poet George MacBeth at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. I taught Intro to Film as a TA at Yale and Romantic Poetry as a TA at Stanford. Don’t tell the people at Yale but sometimes I taught the section before I’d seen the movie it was about...

I live in Santa Monica, CA, with my family, most of whom were enslaved into working with me in one form or another on my first YA book for Little, Brown. I’m not kidding; when my daughters wanted to go to school I said “Why are you so selfish? Get back in there and edit,” and by said I mean yelled and maybe threw things, it’s all a haze. Now the Beautiful series has wrapped, but you can see the movie on February 13, 2013 or read my new book ICONS on May 7th. Nothing gold can stay, Ponyboy.

Reviews

[Liz.Loki · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cool. I don't know if I'll have the occasion to read Forever Red but it made me curious.

[Glyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

My kingdom for a world where this is a real comic and not a tie-in to a YA novel. Tho I dinged a star off for the whole “mamma bear” Natasha thing.

[David · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not a fan. Introducing a new character in a very crowded universe is a difficult task. I like Black Widow and think she manages to fit in well as a not quite super heroine in a world full of heavy hitters. This introduces Red Widow, daughter of Black Widow, but does a lot of not well executed jumping back and forth in time and comes off as muddled.

[Nat · Rating 3 out of 5]

The artwork was nicely done but the introduction of the character felt a bit out of nowhere to me.
Natasha's character is always good to stumble upon and her personality was shown and a bit challenged through the eyes of our new main character. It felt a bit weak in the eyes of the reader but it has the potential to set the red widow to an interesting start so while the comic didn't stand out , my opinion on the character entirely depends on how the writers will handle the story in the future.