Very busy days again, but that's why the brief fics from the "Trick or Treat" exchange make for perfect readings:

Black Widow:

Several highly enjoyable takes set in the flashback to Natasha's and Yelena's childhood era, and quite different from each other:

The Monsters in the Dark

Happy Hauntings

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell:

A Paper Crown: in ( Read more... )

...all spoilery for the new movie:

Middletown: sharp and poetic.

Plain Vanilla: child Natasha's first day on the undercover mission shown in the teaser.

That's just Tutu good: a day in the life during said mission, featuring Melina and Natasha ( Read more... )

My first movie watched in a cinema for a year or so. Yay! As opposed to last years' experience, the cinema in question has digitalized so you check yourself in and out with one of the Corona warning apps. Also, there were an amazing number of amateurs (read: people not aware of the Marvel movie habit of a final tag scene after the credits) there ( Read more... )

WE WILL GET A BLACK WIDOW ORIGINS MOVIE. Yes, yes, yes! Of course, now my next question is how much of Natasha's comicbook origins they'll be able to keep. Starting with the date problem, and I doubt they'll go the "genetically enhanced, hence not aging normally" route of retcon that would allow her to have grown up in the Soviet Union, but if she ( Read more... )

In this interview with Marvel honcho Kevin Feige, the passage about Black Widow made me dance the dance of joy. Then he goes on to discuss the question of female superheroines and whether or not they'll fair well on screen:

Q: There’s been talk of Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow getting her own spin-off films. How far along are we from seeing the ( Read more... )