In 1982 two things were incredibly popular -- art portfolios and artist Paul Gulacy. These two things come together magnificently in Black Widow, a portfolio in which Gulacy gives us a simply gorgeous Natasha Romanoff, the sleek and deadly Soviet defector who is reputed by some to be the greatest spy in the world. After looking at the six plates below in addition to the handsome cover above, I'm too breathless to disagree.
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What do you think? I thought so. That's a wrap to the Black Widow material this month. I've had a blast reading nearly four decades of comic stories featuring the delightful Ms. Romanoff. We've seen her as villain, victim, superhero, spy, lover, but most of all as a survivor, the ultimate survivor in the Marvel Universe. Her death in the Marvel films was for me the emotional highlight, more poignant than even that of Tony Stark, because like her life, her sacrifice was in secret, but a secret that saved the world and more. Magnificent!
Lovely art and not overly sexualised, the mark of an artist that knows how to draw real (albeit stunning looking) women and not "rubber dolls"
ReplyDeleteYeah. Not one of those weird anatomically impossible "Here's my butt and my boobs" poses which dominated comics for a time.
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