Written by: Sarah Gailey
Artwork by: Alessandro Miracolo
Colours by: Matt Milla
Letters by: VC’s Travis Lanham
Cowl artwork by: David Marquez (cowl A)
Cowl worth: $3.99
Launch date: December 13, 2023
White Widow #2 finds Yelena Bolova slowly acclimating to life within the suburbs when the mysterious firm named Armament shifts from property shopping for to the recruitment of Yelena’s pals.
Is White Widow #2 Good?
Oof! White Widow #2 is an ideal instance of the writing, humor, and character work that’s at present placing the MCU Section 4 within the dumps because the worst money-losing effort in Marvel historical past. If you wish to get to know White Widow by means of horrible jokes, Twitter-levels of human interplay, and an entire lack of grounded sense, Sarah Gailey is providing you with all you possibly can stand… and extra.
When final we left Yelena Bolova, aka White Widow, her new profession as a advisor/coach for assassins within the quiet city of Idylhaven took a flip for the more serious when a mysterious company, Armament, gave the impression to be pushing individuals out of their properties and companies to purchase up the native property. Yelena additionally began to make a connection between Armament tech and the cybernetic augmentations of rival assassins.
Now, Yelena spends the day at a Farmers’ Market together with her obligatorily numerous group of neighbors when she learns Armament is recruiting individuals for jobs and internships. When Yelena learns her neighbor, Griffin is contemplating an internship as a consequence of an curiosity in cybernetics, she asks Griffin to look at a cybernetic eye recovered within the final subject’s tussle. Later, Griffin confirms the attention is Armament tech, triggering a cascade of visits by assassins who do repo work and eviction notices.
“Huh? Eviction notices?” you may puzzle. Sure, that’s proper. Yelena goes to conflict with Armament as a result of she broke the phrases of her lease and is getting evicted. That’s the extent of battle Marvel is utilizing to showcase/elevate their (2nd? third?) biggest murderer.
What’s nice about White Widow #2? If nothing else, Miracolo’s artwork is nice to nice, particularly within the inventive use of coloration for the panel layouts. Plus, Miracolo’s motion sequences are energetic.
What’s not so nice about White Widow #2? For one of many world’s high assassins, skilled in a number of languages, cultures, and types of fight, Gailey crafts a White Widow shockingly ignorant concerning the nation she’s dwelling in and find out how to mix in. For no matter purpose, Gailey writes Yelena as an alien visiting from one other planet who has no thought find out how to work together with individuals, and it’s a bummer to see a probably cool character so egregiously misrepresented.
Additional, the opening prologue flashes again to a combat with Wolverine that doesn’t have any connection to the current, so Gailey is losing web page area on irrelevant fluff.
Additional nonetheless, Yelena’s beef with Armament appears oddly pointless when she has the connection to name on any variety of covert organizations and hero groups to analyze the clandestine dealings of Armament. In case you’re going to invent an issue, it ought to be a plausible one. This downside just isn’t plausible.
Briefly, unhealthy character work, poor use of web page area, and an unbelievable antagonist make for a painfully unentertaining studying expertise.
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White Widow #2 takes every part you dislike concerning the MCU Section 4 and cranks it as much as 11 with horrible “I don’t know find out how to converse human” humor, a battle that doesn’t match the world, and an antagonist that doesn’t make sense. In case you’re pinching your pennies, that is the comedian to skip.
