MARVEL COMICS – @Marvel
[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]
STORY: Matt Owens
ART: Juann Cabal
COLORS: Antonio Fabela and Marcio Menyz
LETTERS: VC's Cory Petit
COVER: Elizabeth Torque
VARIANT COVERS: Marco Checchetto; Pasqual Ferry with Chris Sotomayor; Bill Sienkiewicz; Skottie Young
28pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (April 2017)
Rated T+
Elektra created by Frank Miller
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Elektra (full name Elektra Natchios) is a Marvel Comics character. Created by Frank Miller, Elektra first appeared in Daredevil #168 (cover dated: January 1981). She is a highly trained assassin and anti-hero who wields a pair of bladed sai, which are her trademark weapons.
The best Elektra stories are those written by Miller, which culminated in the death of Elektra in Daredevil #181 (cover dated: April 1982). Miller resurrected his most famous original character-creation in Daredevil #190 (cover dated: January 1983) and also used the character in the long-in-gestation original graphic novel, Elektra Lives Again, which was finally published in 1990.
Frank Miller has long claimed that Marvel Comics promised not to use the character without his permission. Beginning in 1994, however, Elektra began to make appearances in comic books not written by Miller, including starring in her own miniseries and ongoing series. The latest is the ongoing comic book, Elektra. It is written Matt Owens; drawn by Juann Cabal, colored by Antonio Febela and Marcio Menyz; and lettered by Cory Petit.
Elektra #1 finds the titular assassin in Las Vegas, staying at the Midway Casino. This casino and hotel is secretly a place of debauchery and violence, if you can pay for it. Elektra is ready to shed some blood of her own, but even she does not know the secret at the heart of this evil.
The art – compositions by Juann Cabal and colors by Antonio Fabela and Marcio Menyz – is quite pretty. Cabal's precision pencil work – with its Frank Quitely quality – turns out to be perfect, at least for Matt Owen's take on Elektra. Speaking of Owens, well, I can't hate on him. I am actually intrigued by this first issue. I hope the second issue hasn't sold out already. I want to give this another try.
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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