“It\u2019s similar to way we approached Daredevil, in that we\u2019re not picking up specifically from the end of the previous issue or specifically from any one moment. But we\u2019re acknowledging that, and making use of the fact that what happened in the previous series happened, and using some of that stuff as a springboard. And it is, by Marvel time, at least eight months later. It\u2019s not the next day, anyway. Especially in issue 2 in particular, we\u2019re sort of spring boarding off of some of the previous events, but not so specifically that anyone should feel like they\u2019re missing anything if they didn\u2019t read the previous run.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Not every fan loved the Edmonson and Noto run (myself included) but it’s nice to see comics honoring continuity!<\/p>\n
Artist Chris Samnee<\/strong> says the team won’t be holding back for this story:<\/p>\n“I started work on Widow a week after I finished Daredevil. It\u2019s my love letter to Gerry Conway and Gene Colan in a way, but also we\u2019re doing the absolute worst things possible to Widow. But I think that\u2019s kind of what you have to do \u2014 kill your darlings. If I didn\u2019t love her so much, I wouldn\u2019t give her such a hard time. She gets beat down, but the great thing about Widow is that she always gets back up. And I think we\u2019re going to see that for at least a year: getting beat down and getting back up on top. I\u2019m looking forward to dragging Widow through the dirt.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Just as long as it’s respectful dragging. It’s true that Widow is a character who knows how to get back up, but she’s also one who deserves a compelling story.<\/p>\n
Widow and Daredevil had a relationship in the past, but they are very different characters in a lot of ways. Waid went on to explain how the team is transitioning from the Man Without Fear to the Russian spy turned Avenger:<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s a much trickier situation, because Daredevil was a very internal book. Daredevil was narrated by Daredevil and we were very much inside Matt [Murdock]\u2019s head the entire time. We\u2019re very close to Daredevil as a person in this book, whereas with Natasha and the Black Widow book, it\u2019s the opposite. We don\u2019t want to get a running narration of what\u2019s happening in her head at every moment. We need her to be a little more distant and a little more removed, because that\u2019s just who she is. She\u2019s not open with her thoughts and her feelings. So it\u2019s a whole different challenge with us. How do you tell emotional really intimate stories with these characters, without having that tool in our toolbox?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
All of this boils down to the fact that Daredevil<\/em> was a great, accomplished run and I can’t wait to see what the team does with a character like Black Widow, arguably one of the most popular right now (and best in general!).<\/p>\nBlack Widow #1<\/em> is scheduled to debut early next year. Are you looking forward to it? Sound off in the comments!<\/p>\nImages: Marvel Comics, Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marvel Comics is moving along with their All-New All Different line, from Miles Morales as Spider-Man, Amadeus Cho as Hulk, and Ta-Nehisi Coates writing Black Panther. Now we have another comic to add to the line-up! The creative team from the recently ended Daredevil will be debuting Black Widow #1 early next year! If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[126,11,388,558],"tags":[193,3390,1150,3145,112,3389,122,1154],"yst_prominent_words":[11365,8617,5891,8016,26162,6277,5968,12217,5925,26164,8998,23574,6073,11826,6525,6116,7442,5825,8066,26163],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64577,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30276\/revisions\/64577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30276"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}