written by Chris Samnee and Mark Waid
drawn by Samnee
colored by Matt Wilson
Following her encounter with the Winter Soldier and the vengeful Red Room graduate Recluse, Natasha finds herself en route to the moon with the Winter Soldier as well as her unwilling conscript the Weeping Lion to meet, of all people, Nick Fury, whose appearance has radically changed since the last time they saw each other. Meanwhile Recluse sets her own master plan into motion, and the Weeping Lion's saga of revenge takes a rather sudden, unexpected twist. It appears things will be coming to a head very soon.
As much as I have enjoyed Chris Samnee's exponential growth as both a draftsman and a storyteller, with a little help from Mark Waid, I am not entirely happy with the way things are playing out in what appears to be a hasty attempt on Samnee's part to tie up loose ends in time for this book's demise, which is projected to happen right after this arc. Samnee set up a back story for the Weeping Lion, which, while a little cliched, nonetheless portended an interesting turn for the character, but judging from the events of this issue that little plotline is pretty much a dead-end; Samnee is clearly setting up a big showdown between Widow and Recluse; to introduce any new significant characters at this point would just be bad storytelling.
Samnee's art is really the best it's ever been, but I'm nowhere near as fired up by this story as I was by the first arc, which was shrouded in a considerable amount of mystery. If I may give my honest assessment of his skills as a writer based on this arc alone, I sincerely think Samnee needs to polish his craft a little bit when he starts work on his next project.
6.5/10
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