As a kid, Gifu City artist Dakota Alexander developed a lifelong love for ukiyo-e, a style of traditional Japanese woodblock painting that became popular during the Edo period. Like many young people, Alexander also happened to have a fondness for comic books and superheroes.

Black Widow's death was one of the few major changes to come out of Marvel's Secret Empire event that Kobik, a living embodiment of the Cosmic Cube's power, did not undo. Unsurprisingly, the super spy's already back from the dead, but her return reveals interesting new information that changes everything we know about her.

Now that Marvel's Secret Empire is well underway, the crossover event's larger story is finally beginning to take shape -- and we're learning which heroes are striking back against Hydra's fascistic, Nazi-esque regime.

When Steve Rogers makes his allegiance to Hydra public at the start of Secret Empire, the superhero community is naturally going to be pretty shocked. But before he can enact his crazy plan to rule the Earth, Natasha Romanov is going to try and stop him, and she's recruiting a few friends to help her resistance.

Natasha Romanoff has been a superhero. She's also been a spy. Right now, she's somewhere in between the morality of those two poles. Before she was either of those, however, she was an assassin. This week's new Black Widow comic shows the first time the young Natasha killed someone. It's nasty.

Imagine the elevator/escape from SHIELD sequence in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Now imagine it as if it was a) a comic book, b) featured no trace of Captain America at all, c) had Black Widow instead, and d) was somehow even better.

While the world is raving about the new Captain America: Civil War trailer, on my shelf it's still The Age of Ultron.

It took two whole days, but someone has finally unlocked the videos in new Xbox One release Rare Replay that show off a quintet of games that the studio behind Blast Corps, Jetpac and Banjo-Kazooie started working on but never released. Some look pretty cool, especially Kameo 2.

Yeah, I already had one Black Widow figure, but this one is from a different movie.