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COSMIC TREADMILL: 'AVENGERS CONFIDENTIAL: BLACK WIDOW & PUNISHER' (REVIEW) at FORCES OF GEEK

Ramping up for the big Cap movie this weekend got us all excited, preened and pumped for some small screen Marvel action, NOW!

The weekend brought us to the store for a DVD copy of  Thor: The Dark World  and a stranger, peculiar animated relative (second cousin?) A vengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher .


Mixing Anime and the Marvel Cinematic Universe (I think) made for a great sequel to the Madhouse produced Marvel Anime series, but underserved as a rally cry for this weekend’s live-action  Winter Soldier . The  Cosmic Treadmill  ran with this on the  HUD , and here’s what worked and what didn’t! 

The Punisher, for better or for worse, has always been a favorite Marvel character. I grew up with his  War Journals , his  Armory , his  War Zone  and throughout the ‘80s. Artists like Jim Lee Mike Zeck drawing Frank Castle and his family’s murder was my  raison d’être ! One day, I thought, I’d be rich and sexy enough to buy  Amazing Spider-Man #129 . I thought wrong!


As for Black Widow, co-star of this movie and  The Avengers , I’ve only been interested since  Iron Man 2 . ScarJo’s stoic yet sexy expressions and her trickery over Loki in  The Avengers  certainly puts her in the front lines of the squad, but ‘back in my day’ Black Widow was second string. I have more Mockingbird comics in my long boxes than Natasha Romanoff!


Either way, story wise, this is a great pairing. You know what you are going to get with Frank Castle. He’s the opposite of Batman—killer, judge, jury, executioner. Black Widow, a former Russian spy, now S.H.I.E.L.D. spy under the thumb of Director Nick Fury (Cinematic, Samuel L. Jackson version) is one who must answer to military protocol and her higher ups.

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