agent who tries to catch Elektra, but becomes her reluctant partner. Beginning with a kind of origin for Elektra drawn in naturalistic, painterly tones and then bright cartoony scribbles, the reader is thrown into the middle of constantly shifting viewpoints and pieces of story as we move between Elektra’s narration and that of John Garrett, a S.H.I.E.L.D. The fractured narrative style that Miller and Sienkiewicz employ through this book means the plot above is only the small skeleton that their story hangs on. Elektra accidentally discovers this doomsday plan while on a mission in South America, so has to reach Washington and somehow prevent Ken Wind from becoming President.
This being intends to use America’s nuclear arsenal to trigger Armageddon by firing every missile at Russia, ensuring a retaliation that will destroy the Earth. Wind is a puppet, possessed by the Beast, a monstrous inhuman force. Kennedy lookalike, about to become the next president. The plot concerns a United States Presidential candidate, called Ken Wind (his campaign slogan: “Not wind like a watch, but wind – like the air”).
This series is an untold episode from Elektra’s past although the timeline is hazy, perhaps on purpose, as it the tale doesn’t occupy standard Marvel continuity, particularly at the end.
There is no nudity, but there are sexual situations and lots of PG-13 language.įrank Miller created Elektra, a telepathic ninja assassin, during his run on Daredevil, and her massive popularity had fans demanding her revival after she was killed by Daredevil’s nemesis Bullseye. Originally serialised in 19, Elektra: Assassin was written by Frank Miller and drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz for Epic, a Marvel Comics imprint for ‘mature readers’.
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