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Black Widow: The Things They Say Abou Her #6

Feb 2006
Richard K. Morgan, Bill Sienkiewicz

Black Widow: The Things They Say Abou Her #6 cover

Story Name:

The Things They Say About Her Part 6: Welcome to the Game


Synopsis

Black Widow: The Things They Say Abou Her #6 synopsis by Peter Silvestro
Rating: 3.5 stars

The captive Black Widow nearly falls apart from panic when she learns that Sally Anne Carter is a prisoner of the bad guy. They leave Sally alone with Natasha to say goodbye. Sally tells Nat she is the mother she never had, a person who cared for her. And then Sally springs the big surprise: she’s not a prisoner. And then Yelena Belova walks in, wearing a uniform. Seems that Belova came to the rescue, her troops found the bad guy troops in the jungle, killed them, took their uniforms, and walked into the facility the easiest way they could—by pretending Sally was a prisoner. Natasha is freed and heads out; Matt Murdock is there and wants to talk with her but Nat has some more urgent business. She takes a gun and a knife and goes into the jungle after Ferris and Kestrel. Nat catches up to them and challenges Ferris to a knife fight as he has been wanting. Nat, tired, beaten, drugged, still kills him within five seconds. Nat then calmly shoots Kestrel….

Returning to the facility, Nat meets Matt who wants political asylum so she refers him to Belova. Bobby Campano asks to see her but dies. They find about a hundred enslaved women, a dozen prisoners, and Dr. Ochoa, a Chilean torture expert. Nat tells Belova to take them all back to Cuba for a human rights trial that will make a good propaganda show for Castro against the USA….

So Natasha and Matt Murdock stay in Cuba while President George W. Bush makes a rousing patriotic speech on the need to fight the terrorists….



 

Review / Commentaries


Black Widow: The Things They Say Abou Her #6 Review by (June 11, 2024)

Review: And the series wraps up with a bitter denunciation of the United States in the era of the Patriot Act, which was passed in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the USA to curtail civil rights in the name of fighting terrorism. The story folds the political into the issues of mistreatment of women in various societies. Problem is, to get the former they had to include the Nick Fury/Matt Murdock sequences which have nothing to do with the Black Widow plot. And the political commentary grows quite shrill and manipulative. I certainly hope Richard K. Morgan is feeling better now.  

Comments: Not rated but should be PSR+ (Parental Supervision Recommended Plus). Natasha’s next series is BLACK WIDOW #1 in June 2010.



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Layouts: Sean Phillips. Letterer: Cory Petit.

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