“KISS OR KILL,” PART 3 Your name is Nick Crane. You’ve met this beautiful girl, and you’re traveling all over Eastern Europe. It’d be like some crazy romantic comedy, except for… well, the secret government torture rooms. The black hood (that smells like garlic) over your head. The kidnapping, the poison mist, the gunfire, the chase through the bitter cold and the train derailing. And now there’s this crazy guy in a robot suit and some messed-up witch-looking woman coming after you, and the only thing between you and them is that beautiful girl, who calls herself Black Widow… and you know, you kind of think she still may have more
This story arc began so strongly but the end cannot match up to the premise sold to us on entry. Reveals are rushed and resolutions are forced and far too easy. There isn't a sense that our intrepid lead has set her mind to winning this situation. Instead, she ambles through a few convenient motions and easily walks away with far too much trust and only a sliver of a thread into the next tale. It's a shame that tale is the over-priced "Widowmaker" crossover with "Hawkeye & Mockingbird" because it might have had room to breathe in more issues of this title. Read Full Review
This last issue is a letdown!
Lets talk about the art: Starting with the cover, this is my least favorite cover from the series by a lot. The first couple of pages had some very creative panels and action. But after that, this book looks and feels like it was phoned in. The coloring and letters are fine. The pencils and the Inks on the other hand are just a fall-out on quality, not from Acuña's first 5 issues but from the previous isuue also. Small panels have some deformed or incomplete limbs, the shadows take away from the faces and by the end some of yhe characters are just recognizable.
Now the story: This was clearly cut short of maybe 1 or 2 issues. The train scene was going well, and maybe the appearance of Fat more