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Ughhh that anonymous ask reminds me it's hard to find issues 2 & 3 of Elektra & Wolverine: The redeemer 😖 (I was going to buy the one that had all the issues in one but I saw the 1st issue in a comic shop near me so I brought it and now I'm fighting for my life to get the other issues lmaoo)

i have the tpb and i tuck her gently into bed every night. ive only ever seen shitty quality single issues :(

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im fairly new to comics and i was looking at your elektra stuff and you mention wolverine a few times. what is their connection about? how do they know each other?

oh my favourite subject!!!!!

they first met in wolverine vol 2 when wolverine was in one of his beserker episodes and stick put elektra onto him to pull him out of it. they started training together how stick trained elektra. she notes herself how much they have in common and how she understands him in terms of his anger more than most can. she's hard on him but there's a lot to be said about how she doesn't judge him for how he is or what he's done or how he got there, she just re-teaches him the difference between mindless killing and killing for a purpose and doing it with skill and dwelling on your trauma vs using it. some of the ugliest wolverines youve ever seen in your life but one of my fav moments

coming out of that, there's elektra and wolverine: the redeemer. my one of my favourite comics ever that isnt actually a comic. again , heavy with the themes of redemption and whether or not it's possible or desirable for either of them.

they go back to one another's home countries. logan takes her camping in canada and she takes him back to greece to see what's left of her home which she hasn't done with ANYONE, not even matt

then there's elektra vol 1 where i just like the casual/normal nature of their friendship. he shows up to give her a ride on his bike and then gets protective because of the guy she's seeing, he knows she's out of her depth wrt romance and is worried about her, he knows she doesn't like cut flowers, then he goes to fight the new love interest just to make sure he's good enough for her

then one of my other favourites!! enermy of the state/agent of shield where wolverine is once again not in control of himself. a common theme in wolverine comics actually. elektra is working w shield and wolverine is possessed by the hand who are working w hydra. which is naturally a bit of a sore subject w elektra. she's... kind of on side with shield for logan's sake, imo. she very clearly has no loyalties to them and makes a point of saying you kind of deserve this

the hand sends logan after matt and his thought process the whole time is like wow you really fumbled this girl AND you're a whore. massive L. and this is whilst he's possessed by the bad guys. bestie behaviour. anyway, the hand kill's elektra again which was her plan all along, because she knows theyre going to raise her from the dead as their puppet BUT she's immune to their fuckery because theyve tried it all with her before, so basically she's back with logan, they all think she's possessed, but she's not. she's there to get her bff.

the two of them kill an entire helicarrier full of shield agents. wolverine not in control of himself, elektra just willing to make sacrifices. referred to as the blackhawk incident. to me, its just another thing that bonds them and another atrocity that neither one judges the other for when everyone else in their lives are slightly more morally upstanding. the both of them just know what it takes. stuff happens, wolverine comes back to himself and turns up to hand/hydra hq to kill them all when elektra telepathically tells him she's gonna help him. they kill another large amount of people together

secret invasion happens, which is an absolute shit show for elektra when she gets replaced by a skrull. they take the form of both matt and logan to take her off guard which says a lot imo. and when she escapes the skrull, logan is the one who gets her and helps her get back on her feet. the whole question of this book is whether or not elektra was a skrull when she helped with the blackhawk incident. spoilers: she wasnt but logan still does not judge her in the slightest which is SO important for her considering her only other support in her life is matt who constantly judges her for what she does

in savage wolverine, elektra shows up at avengers tower and logan drops everything to go with her and help her and i think this team up for them explains their relationship SO well so i'm just gonna dump the whole page

to me, 'being with her feels a hell of a lot like being alone' is the biggest statement to make in terms of how comfortable you feel with someone, and considering the both of them are loners at heart, idk i just think its a huge deal and i love that for them

tl;dr i just think theyre so fucking neat. they both have a history of being controlled and used and exploited and the things that theyve done because of that can't really be understood by anyone else.

elektra has NO supporting cast other than matt and a key part of her and matt is that they can never see eye to eye and neither can ever budge from their perspective because that's who they are. but with logan, she doesn't have to worry about that. he takes her as she is and trusts that she has good reason for doing whatever she does. and logan has SUCH respect for her abilities. he always waxes poetic about how good she is and how she could easily take him if she wanted to

logan has a few likeminded ppl surrounding him but for the most part, he's surrounded by heroes and literal children. so with her, he gets to be a different version of himself that he sometimes has to keep in the closet. they work SO well together because theyre just so similar. they know what the deal is without having to ask and its just so satisfying to watch from the perspective of an elektra stan. i just want someone to support her unconditionally and GET her and logan absolutely does

no one gets her like mr wolverine and i get her

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CATWOMAN #74

Written by TORUNN GRØNBEKK

Art by MARIANNA IGNAZZI

Covers by SEBA FIUMARA, FRANK CHO, DAN PANOSIAN and W. SCOTT FORBES

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Donna Troy 💫

Saw this Jane Russell look in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and immediately thought of Donna

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i hate that being emotionally unavailable is so associated with masculinity. which is why i must stay emotionally unavailable. for feminism.

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voice line suggestions if i may

if i were making marvel rivals i simply would have put elektra natchios in it. goty

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her ult is killing all the characters i personally don’t like immediately

if i were making marvel rivals i simply would have put elektra natchios in it. goty

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if i were making marvel rivals i simply would have put elektra natchios in it. goty

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'Tis tradition. Chosen, she is, by the Gods-

—No! You chose her.

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She Hulk Hellfire Gala Outfit

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hi if i want to read more about mattelektra, if i follow your elektra reading order, will i get their full story? thx

yes! the way it works in comics unfortunately is that the woman’s books will always have a latent focus on her relationship with a man but not the other way around lmao

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heyyy if elektra 2014 is one of your fav runs, did you say it was skippable in your reading order because “nothing big happens”? or was there anything else?

it’s skippable in terms of like… you won’t miss any references to it in future comics because there are none. it’s a very standalone book but i personally wouldn’t skip it because it’s such a good representation of my girl and the art is beautiful and we will never have the likes of it again in our lifetimes

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There are no gods here... only monsters.