A short preview released by Marvel for the upcoming Punisher Showdowns miniseries. Written by Tom Waltz. Art by Greg Land.

Images and description were taken from here: https://comicbookclublive.com/2026/10/16/marvel-preview-punisher-showdowns-black-widow-1/

My bf recently went to New York City ComicCon and got me a few things I always wanted which is, of course, Balckwidow merchandise since for some reason it’s so hard to find especially comics in stores. I’ve been absolutely loving the Kelly Thompson comic so far, I would save panels of it on my Pinterest but OMGG I DIDNT THINK THEY WOULD GO THIS FAR????

Hey can you guys recommend me good widow comics? I’m trying to get into her as a character and I’d like recommendations that characterize her well

1. Yelena teaming up with Janet Van Dyne & Emma Frost as she tries to expand her modeling empire’s reach. The story should lean into a glamorous, martini/corporate spy thriller genre as we witness Yelena navigate untrustworthy high-society socialite circles & deadly lavish galas.

2. Yelena having to protect her family when a mysterious group of operatives targets them to blackmail her. The story would explore her twisted family dynamics, their military intelligence background, and Yelena uncovering the mysterious group’s true motives before her family becomes collateral in her life of espionage.

3. Focusing on Yelena reconciling her past as a former Russian nationalist with her Ukrainian heritage. She could confront the Winter Guard and corrupt political figures in a story addressing the Russia–Ukraine war (direct criticism of irl dictators/warmongers/fascists/racists has long been missing from Marvel comics)

4. A prequel story set after "Black Widow: Breakdown" showing how Yelena’s defected from her GRU handlers and left Russia to start a new life in Cuba. Forced to betray former allies and survive a series of double-crosses, we would witness her caught between conflicting loyalties and making big sacrifices as she fights to secure her freedom.

5. Team up with Bullseye during Yelena's time as a freelance assassin. The two work together under unlikely circumstances that forces them to resist the urge to kill one another. As their contrasting methods clash & interwine, an unexpected friendship would form while they wreak havoc in the mercenary underworld.

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Keep in my mind, she does look hot and stunning as usual.

Besides just watching the expo and putting him in a armhold for a second. She does beat up some guards but we needed more scenes of her being a spy and doing espionage work for Stark. Missed opportunity not giving Sam Rockwell and Scarlett any scenes together.

so for those out of loop, apparently venoms (and eddies!) new love interest is yelena belova, as if mcu synergy hasnt fucked the character enough.. also why that haircut?? they look like siblings

I would be like an emotional and connective friendship because he lost so much that from his parents and Gwen and I think that would yelena so well, so a lot of personal issues would work too. And even doing team ups together would be great a mix of quips and Sarcastic callbacks from Yelena because both would work so well together when it comes to stopping threats smaller or big, be forming a partnership because their emotional trauma between both would work so well.

My pitch would be about facing her fears, her pursuit for freedom and free will, and face the monsters who hurt her family and friends. The villains would be anyone from Mephisto, slashers, puppet masters, demons, and other love craft creatures, too, as she becomes a one woman army or like a final girl in a horror film, trying to survive a uptopia or in a twilight zone style world or universe as she explores a Wonderland or maze of maddens, and horror to escape and live through, it would be a mixture of genres not just horror, like action, dark humour, thriller, and adventurous too. The monsters would be scary, doll like monsters, eldritch horrors and suspense, that is scary, and shows how dangerous they are. And be like everything everywhere all at once, but with horror flair too it.

I know we saw them fight each other in the black widow movie in the Budapest apartment scene, but who would actually win in a fight?

(Don’t mind the typo mistake on the title😭)

So far it's a working idea, been watching a lot of thriller spy stuff and I've come up with something.

What if 24 year old Natasha Romanov an intern for a big designer company was the black widow at night.

I hope the idea isn't too cheesy, the idea was inspired from the movie salt and moon knight. Like imagine a scenario where Natasha is casually working from home and she gets a call from some guy and they say a hidden codeword where the black widow gets activated.

I think she should not like what she's doing and try to take her operations if she lived post 2023 and get Yelena out of whatever mission Val made her do. And expose her plans and get her arrested as well.

This is a recent commission he did.

Crazy how Scarlett initially didn’t get the role for Black Widow, but the og actress couldn’t do it because of scheduling conflicts so Kevin Feige ended up calling her back. I literally couldn’t imagine anyone else playing Nat. She was born for that role

I see many people bring her previous issues with disney so I do wonder if there is any chance of her return.

I already knew what the added scenes were but I went to see my favorite characters on the big screen one last time.