Elektra

Elektra: Black, White & Blood #4

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Elektra: Black, White & Blood #4 offers three more tales of Elektra in the final issue of the four-issue mini-series anthology, all delivered in black, white, and red. In “Powers You Can’t Comprehend,” my favorite of the three tales, Elektra is hired by the Kingpin to take out a target. What he doesn’t tell her is that target is Ghost Rider which turns to be a harder job to finish than Elektra bargained leading to the assassin reworking the contract with Fisk.

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Elektra: Black, White & Blood #3

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Three more tales of Elektra through the years, all presented in black, white, and red, are collected here. My favorite from Elektra: Black, White & Blood #3 is “Weapons of Choice” which sees Elektra, when still working as an assassin for the Hand, attack the Red Room whose students at the time included Natasha Romanov. This is a thread that I’d like to see pulled on and a rematch of the pair, at some point, on more even terms.

In a bit of a flashback to her past, “Split” catches up to pre-assassin Elektra breaking out of the asylum she’d been locked away in with the help of Typhoid Mary. And in “With a Passion” Elektra’s love/hate relationship with Daredevil is examined as are Matt Murdock’s failed attempts to save the woman he loves.

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Elektra: Black, White & Blood #2

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Elektra: Black, White & Blood #2 offers three more tales of Marvel’s most famous assassin in white, black, and plenty of red. While there is no break-out tale in the issue, we do get three solid stories featuring the character in different locales.

“Cut and Run” finds Elektra in Madripoor where Patch puts the assassin onto Joon, a woman of the evening who has fallen in with a dangerous assassin who isn’t too keen on her aborting what he believes to be his unborn child. 

In “Verité” a couple of New York Police Detectives work to try to solve the murder of a witness against the Kingpin who was killed so quickly that the murder wasn’t caught on camera (funny, I didn’t know Elektra was a speedster?). And in “Yokai,” set in Japan, Elektra fights a legendary creature who has stolen a small child.

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Daredevil: Woman Without Fear #1

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A tie-in to Marvel’s current Devil’s Reign event, the first issue of Daredevil: Woman Without Fear teases us with moments from Elektra‘s past including glimpses of her training under both Stick and the Hand (introducing the character most responsible for her training within the cult).

The comic hits the highlights of the character, explaining both who she is and who she is trying to be while adopting the persona of the man she loves. Looking for who Fisk may have sold her out to takes Elektra on a journey through the past where she runs into Aka, but the Hand assassin isn’t her current problem.

We don’t actually get the confrontation teased at the end of Devil’s Reign #2 as the comic comes to an end in relatively the same place with Elektra standing face-to-face with Kraven for the first time.

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Elektra: Black, White & Blood #1

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Elektra becomes the latest comic character to get her own black-and-white mini-series featuring separate tales of the comic character, and, like both Red Sonja and Deadpool, hers will have a splash of red.

My favorite of the three tales, mainly for the art by Mark Bagley, “Red Dawn” offers a tale of Elektra left for dead and turned by vampires but still with enough strength to fight back against the urge to become one of them.

In “Not the Devil” Elektra hunts down and kills minions of the Kingpin from the shadows but momentarily hesitates after hearing the pleas of a young girl. And in the final story, “The Crimson Path” offers a more metaphysical tale of Elektra and her fight against evil and monsters which leave their mark on her.

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