Moral of the story: don't get involved with Elektra

[colonel_green.insanejournal.com]

A somewhat belated post of four scans from Dark Reign: Elektra #5, which my store didn't get last week for whatever reason.

The story has followed Elektra ever since she returned from the Skrulls, as she finds herself dodging assassins who keep asking her about whether "the stars are safe in the sky".  She has no idea what this means, but she eventually follows one of the people targetting her back to base.  Turns out that her enemies are a group of ex-SHIELD agents, the survivors of the crash of the helicarrer Blackhawk (from "Wolverine: Enemy of the State"; this story turns out to be almost a direct sequel).  Those who recall that story will know that Elektra was hired by Nick Fury to infiltrate the Hand, and in the process the Blackhawk was brought down, killing over 200 agents.

Elektra doesn't remember any of this, and says that Skrullektra must have been the one who did it.  However, they're interrupted by Norman Osborn, who tells her that based on his Skrull prisoners' testimony, it was her; she doesn't remember because she used a ninja mind-trick to forget all the details around her various resurrections (which was what the Skrulls were looking for), including the one that came soon after the Blackhawk crash.  She undoes said mind trick to remember what happened, and flashes back to killing her way to the carrier cockpit.




Earlier she told Wolverine that she hadn't killed these guys because she believes she was innocent of their charges;  "If I had wronged them, I would simply kill them all."

Comments

[darkblade.insanejournal.com]

You know for a guy without access to his full database of supers Osborn has his fingers in a whole lot of pies.

[neuhallidae.insanejournal.com]

There must be some kind of rule about this: "No matter how pissed off you are about the loss of your friends, never tell the assassin to her face that you'll hate her forever and hunt her down. That's just asking to be dead by the end of the issue."

[stratosfyr.insanejournal.com]

I loooove this art. What else has Clay Mann done?

[roily_rogue.insanejournal.com]

I love that art.

[box_in_the_box.insanejournal.com]

Am I the only one who's long since felt like the well has kind of run dry on Elektra?

The problem is that Elektra isn't ANYTHING, and hasn't been for quite some time.

[pmagod.insanejournal.com]

I must be hungry... I read "I want Electra nachos"

[demonprawn.insanejournal.com]

The entire mini was great, but my favourite part was the startlingly competent, if ultimately outmatched, HAMMER agent at the beginning of issue 2. that guy was a badass.

[mxlm.insanejournal.com]

The page isn't here, but was I the only one who thought there was something strangely...tender? Intimate? About the way Elektra killed that woman?

[blackdocs.insanejournal.com]

i only have the first issue of this because i thought Clay Mann's DD issue introducing Lady B was gorgeous.
but yeah, I hope Dark Reign culminates with everyone Norman's ever fucked over teaming up and taking him down SO HARD!

[x5455.insanejournal.com]

This is the first thing I've read Elektra in, and I have to say I liked the mini very much, except that I was a bit disappointed that she really did all those things and not the skrull. I was kinda hoping this would lead to a "I have to redeem my name" sort of thing, but I guess not.