I love Black Widow! She’s one of my favorite avengers.This collection was fast paced and interesting and a quick read! Can’t wait for her solo movie this year 💯✊🏾

I'm embarrassed to say that I was, for all intents and purposes, absent the day they covered superheroes in my youth (also, I never learned cursive). I was one of those kids who wasn't allowed to have toy guns, and had to use a giant dolphin whose dorsal fin you could pull back to make it spit water instead of a Super Soaker. Yes, mine was quite the deprived childhood. Given that last time I checked, Michelle Pfeifer was the hottest catwoman in town, and superheroes are always running around wit...

I'm a huge fan of Marjorie M. Liu's novels, so I was excited to see how her writing would translate into comics. While I generally enjoyed Black Widow: The Name of the Rose, I was disappointed with the direction of the plot and kind of on the fence about how Liu chose to depict Natasha. What I was most disappointed with was how easily I was able to predict what would happen throughout the story once Natasha was attacked on the street. (view spoiler)[I knew that when Natasha started alluding to m...

I love the idea of a spy thriller set in the background of the Marvel universe. Natasha receives a black rose setting off a chain of events that leave her framed for espionage. It visits a lot of her long past. (She ages very slowly like Captain America.) I also like how Liu dug up one of the old villains from The Champions team she was a part of in the 1970s.

5 Words: Comic, betrayal, danger, defence, anger.I love black widow and all, but this was just a bit meh. The art was too sexualised, the plot too jumpy, and I just didn't get on with it so much.

Okay, I loved this. Probably the best Black Widow arc I've read. All my favorite Marvel characters tend to be the ones who have no/limited super powers. Of these, Natasha Romanoff's stories all seem rooted in themes of memory, loyalty, and perhaps most interestingly, agency. Every bit of control she has over her life, including her body and mind, have been hard-won. The problem I have with her portrayal most of the time (even in her own stories), is the fact that despite her rich history, she's

This was astonishingly good. I may have gone off Monstress a little but for a air tight five issues Liu spins a Black Widow yarn for the ages. Intrigue, action, heartbreak, and more intrigue.Could not recommend more!

An excellent story that has quite a bit of emotion to it. It reads like a mystery/thriller, and gives you a few glimpses into the Black Widow's origin. There are also a few appearances from some of the Avengers, but they stay in the background. This is definitely Natasha's story, and she doesn't seem to need much help from any of her super-powered friends.

This is one of my all-time favourite comics. Marjorie Liu is a genius.

Most definitely one of the BEST Black Widow comics out there; very honest and gritty and awesome! :)

I really enjoyed this version of the Black Widow (more spy, less superhero). I guess I never realized that Marvel has produced so many series starring the Black Widow. I am catching up on these collections thanks to Comixology Unlimited. While I enjoyed reading this collection and the storyline, I was not crazy about the art. Looking forward to more Black Widow action:

What a fucking mess - I read this twice and I still don’t know what it’s about! Natasha Romanova is Black Widow, a once-evil spy turned good superhero. Someone’s trying to kill her for reasons. Ok… She’s also done a Batman and has been collecting secret information on her superhero buddies – why? So she can sell it. Really? Or is she just being framed? No clue. Probably the latter though. She was also born in the 1920s – how is she still looking 30 then?! She also had a stillborn baby during WW2...

Idk I just feel like natasha is one of those characters where you really have to read between the lines to understand her & the story … I feel like I’ve read a decent amount of her comics but I still can’t connect the dots.

More like 2.5 stars. Just meh for me. An interesting look into Natasha's past, but I wasn't really a big fan of the art and I'm not the right audience for this story anyways -- I find stories about spies/assassins boring. But hey, it was a Kindle cheapie at the time and I like Nat in the Avengers movies. Won't be re-reading it though.

I really enjoyed this one. It was actually a good story, and the threat level was convincing. Kind of a fun read, and the guest characters were used very well. They added to the story without taking over, something that's kind of hard to do when you're Captain America.

Great mystery setup, and an incredibly low-key pervasive spies-not-capes milieu. I enjoy Liu's work here - slowly spooling out crumbs of the mysteries that led Black Widow into this intrigue. The characters and dialogue are coherent, distinct and (mostly) believable. The veiled threats and downplayed action are a refreshing change from the balls-to-the-wall stories that most of the Y-chromosome carriers in comicdom's stable seem inevitably to write. And after being reminded that Liu is also the

4 Stars."The Black Widow is a legend. Some folks think you kill a legend, you'll become one, too. But that's not how it works. Legends aren't made so cheap. And legends always die hard." First time reading a Black Widow story and first time exploring Marjorie Liu's work and I have to say I was blown away. I loved this comic. It was compelling, intense, emotional, clever and it was so fun to read. Yes, it is a marvel story, but honestly it didn't feel like I was reading about superheroes, it was

5 stars!!! Yesss! Now this is a story about Natasha Romanova! Okay, so, there are a lot of iterations of Black Widow. And by iterations, I don't mean comic runs, I mean versions. Poor woman suffers from a disease that plagues many female characters that have been around for a long, long time. Their personalities have been changed to suit whichever male characters they are featured beside. I don't appreciate the slut shaming Imus throws at her (he is a bad guy, but still) but I think it goes with...

If there’s one thing the recent Captain America movie taught me, it’s that I am in need of a Black Widow movie. In the mean time, I will seek to satisfy this need with Black Widow comics. Unfortunately, The Name of the Rose let me down with a rather weak plot involving a mysterious enemy who learns one of Natasha’s biggest secrets: the fact that she is recording secrets on everyone, including her friends in the Avengers. The mystery enemy captures and dissects Natasha to acquire this information...

“It's not the lenght of a life that matters, just the depth of it. The chances we take. The paths we choose. How we go on after our hearts break. Hearts always break, and so we bend with our hearts, and we sway. But in the end, what matters is that we loved and lived.” 3.75★Bueno, por donde empezar. Siempre había querido leer más sobre Black Widow, y había visto esto por goodreads y dije por qué no. Así que una noche cuando esperaba que se me descargara una cosa empecé por la primera histori