Not having read any previous Black Widow comics, I‘m not sure how much of this storyline is her true origin story, if any. I bought Vol. 1 & 2 back in 2007 when I knew I would be meeting the author Richard K Morgan, a man I tracked down to the UK around 2002 after reading his phenomenal first novel, Altered Carbon. Real fan-girl activity. Anyway, I liked this volume well enough. But the cover art! Yuck! (Vol. 2‘s cover is even worse!)