This is a continuation from last month's 3rd issue (http://westerncivilization.trifecta3.ne ... =11&t=8563); as I noted, considering how it ended, it was all but impossible for the scene to have NOT continued, even if briefly. As it turns out, it continued in a rather substantial fashion, and may be one of Black Widow's best DID scenes.
In the previous issue, Black Widow captured Madame Masque and impersonated her to go undercover in Bagalia, a fictional island nation which serves as legal safe haven for super-villains (basically the Madripoor of the 21st century, only with less Asian stereotypes). Speaking of Madripoor, Natasha's all in this is Tyger Tyger, the unofficial "compassionate crime lord" of Madripoor. Last month, Natasha was discovered during her infiltration, TKO'd with poisoned lipstick, tied to a chair and head-wrapped.
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Black- ... d=154638#4 (Natasha is still tied to the chair, and head wrapped, as her torture-by-waterboard is being streamed for sickos online)
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Black- ... d=154638#5 (double page splash of a tied and wrapped Natasha using memories of her previous moments of capture or combat to endure it)
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Black- ... d=154638#7 (waterboarding ends as Natasha's earpiece gets flooded, and the masked creep decides he wants more struggling. Be careful what you wish for...)
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Black- ... d=154638#8 (Natasha frees herself from her chair and stabs the creep with part of it.)
The rest of the comic shows Natasha more or less taking down the group's entire small army of nameless henchmen as Tyger rescues captured children. I actually like the notion of a heroine using multiple memories of being captured not as a mark of weakness, but to psych herself up Rocky-style that she can survive anything, and force herself to victory.
BLACK WIDOW (2019) #4
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