Comic Book: Black Widow (2010 series)

Black Widow #1

April 2010
"[The Name of the Rose, Part One]"
Script: Marjorie Liu
A former Soviet agent known as the Black Rose, a hulking scarred giant who works in a cemetery, is summoned to a meeting in a city alley by the Black Widow. After an introductory skirmish, she shows him a black rose with a black ribbon that was passed to her. [...]

Black Widow #2

May 2010
"The Name of the Rose, Part Two"
Script: Marjorie Liu
Black Widow dreams she is trudging through the snow in WW2-era Russia…then she awakens in the hospital. She drags herself out of bed and punches a code into the phone. [...]

Black Widow #3

June 2010
"The Name of the Rose, Part 3"
Script: Marjorie Liu
On the waterfront, Black Widow is confronted by Elektra who has learned that Natasha was recording data on her friends and allies. The two skirmish, sai versus gun as Elektra wants to know why and Nat talks about safety, the duel ending with the two holding their weapons at each other’s throats. [...]

Black Widow #4

July 2010
"The Name of the Rose, Part 4"
Script: Marjorie Liu
Black Widow recalls how, during the War, she and Nikolai were retreating before the Nazis and she was weak because she was pregnant and he, the father, was caring for her…. [...]

Black Widow #5

August 2010
"The Name of the Rose, Part 5"
Script: Marjorie Liu
Black Widow is naked and shackled to a chair in a meat locker while she is questioned by a Sumi android, controlled by Imus Champion. She spars verbally with him as he assumes he is in the superior position. The functionary enters and Nat finds him very easy to insult. [...]

Black Widow #6

September 2010
"Kiss or Kill"
Script: Duane Swierczynski
Reporter Nick Crane is at a trendy nightclub with a gorgeous blonde model hitting on him; he excuses himself to go to the restroom where a bearded man warns him that blonde is out to kill him. The blonde clobbers Nick’s two bodyguards and enters the restroom to find Nick alone. [...]

Black Widow #7

October 2010
"Kiss or Kill, Part 2"
Script: Duane Swierczynski
Nick Crane awakens chained to a bed in a Roanoke, Virginia, motel. Black Widow explains that when he tried to shoot her in the face, she responded with a Widow’s Kiss, an instant knock-out drug. [...]

Black Widow #8

November 2010
"Kiss or Kill, Part 3"
Script: Duane Swierczynski
Aboard a derailed train in Poland, Black Widow and Nick Crane are running from villains Fantasma and Crimson Dynamo. Nat and Nick hide under the floorboards and she hurls an electrical cable and some explosive pellets and electrocutes the Crimson D. [...]