Widow Hunt Begins
Picking right up where issue 9 left off, the first half of the book details the events of what happened once the Widow was on board the helicarrier and the aftermath of her attack. The results were expected but still handled very well. The exposition between Maria Hill walking Bucky through what happened with the interchanging changing scenes of showing the actual fight has a great feel. This is a very heavy issue with major revelations that will impact Jame's future severely and Guice/Breitweiser do a fantastic job of showing the raw emotion of the event.
There are a couple pages showing the next step in Leo's plans, but, as with Brubaker's writing style, very little was revealed to what their next step will be. The only thing I didn't like about this book was Leo's new look
There is a hopeful moment at the end as some familiar faces are shown to be on the case. I'm glad that Bucky will be re-integrated with parts of the Marvel U here and there.
As I mentioned earlier, the art and colors are fantastic in this book as they have been throughout the entire series, and the story is compelling despite not much really happening from a moving forward perspective.
When it is all said and done, this run is going to make an amazing omnibus or hardcover because this is a great story where every issue is a continuation of the one before. I cannot recommend this title enough.
Here is a spoiler synopsis if you so choose to read.
-She is about to kill Fury until Sitwell jumps in front and sacrifices his life
-Widow escapes the helicarrier on a flying motorcycle to ditches it to meet up with Leo
-Bucky questions the Doctor who brainwashed her and finds out that there were two layers of programming that caused them to think she was free to get her on the helicarrier.
-More importantly, all of the her memories of every being in love with Buck were wiped from her mind.
-We find out that the main objective of the Leo's assault on the helicarrier was for her to kill Fury . . . which failed.
-They save a weapons manufacturer's life to get him to work for them and make them weapons for the next stage of their plan.
-Bucky is on the Helicarrier when Cap arrives and tells him that they are going to find Natasha and that they are going to do it together.
-They have a meeting with Maria Hill to figure out how to get her back and Wolverine and Hawkeye are there to help as well. There is a nice moment when they realized that Buck is still alive.
-The book ends with Buck working out and showing the pain of knowing his love will no longer remember him and Hawkeye walking in the room saying it is time to suit up because they had a sighting of Natasha.
