Comic Reviewer: Will Cooling
Story Title: The Widow Pt. 2
Written by: Brian Michael Bendis
Art by: Alex Maleev
Coloured by: Matt Hollingsworth
Lettered by: Virtual Calligraphy’s Cory Petit
Editor: Jennifer Lee
Publisher: Marvel Knights/Marvel Comics
Dear Sally,
My name’s Matt and my life is such a mess that you’re the only one I could turn to. You see most people think I’m just an introspective jerk who doesn’t know that I’m born but they don’t know the unending agony of being me.
Who is me? Well I’m a multi-millionaire and a highly successfully lawyer and I’m married to a beautiful woman named Milla. Well at least I think I still am, see I’ve had a lot on my plate and there’s a chance that our courtship may have been a result of my nervous breakdown. She didn’t take to it that well and has served me annulment papers. I don’t really want to sign them. I think I still love her.
To make matters worse a beautiful woman named Natasha is currently throwing herself at me. Seriously she’s obviously gagging for it after spending months putting up with British teeth. We’re a really good team, I mean we just recently beat up some punk named Jigsaw man with a really cute one-two kick move that looked ace but I don’t think it’ll work out. She’s a bit loose and untrustworthy. I mean she still hasn’t told me why she’s back in town and staying in my apartment. I think she’s in trouble, maybe with her bosses at the you-know-who.
Then, to make matters worse, there’s my double life. You see, when I’ve finished at work, I like to dress up in hot red spandex and go out in the rougher parts of town and beat up similarly dressed men. I find it ever so rewarding but I really don’t want people to find out about it, I mean its kinda embarrassing and illegal really. For example, my legal partner, Foggy, walks round with a glint in his eye that says you’re nutcase and a pervert, but at least I can trust him. That’s not true of other people, who in my excited state, during these nocturnal activities, I revealed myself shouting “Whose your Kingpin!?!†over and over again. Don’t get me wrong, the power and position it put me in was a real rush, and anyway, someone has to be it, so why not me? But, now, some who now see me come and beg for a piece of me, even during the day when I’m out of costume. There was one ugly bastard named Jigsaw (yeah the same one) who after meeting me the night before literally came begging and I had to show him out. It’s getting me down, you know? I can’t afford for this to come out, it’d ruin me, yet so many people know now. What should I do?
Again no one will help me. So many of my friends, even those who live a similar double life think I’ve gone to far whilst the others can’t understand why I haven’t screwed Natasha senseless yet. You’re the only one who can help me.
Yours truly,
Matt
