Dark Reign - Elektra #5 - Marvel

This whole story-line has been precipiced upon a misunderstanding that exists between Elektra and pretty much the rest of the world. They see her as evil incarnate because of the attack that she led on SHIELD and their helicarrier, a year or so ago. However, she's claims that she has no knowledge of this. So in her mind, it had to have been her Skrull counterpart. Anyways, that's why there's an $82 million price-tag on her head. She just didn't understand what it was all about. So last issue Norman sends Bullseye / Hawkeye after her. Even with a poison tipped arrow he couldn't take her down. Through her drug-haze she still puts up a good fight and ends up stabbing him in the leg with his own arrow. His back-up HAMMER agent have to take him to get that taken care of right away because she hit the artery. Plus Wolverine has shown up. We also find out that the red-haired girl that's after her isn't an assassin, but rather an ex-SHIELD agent. She's trying to avenge the deaths of all her counterparts aboard the Carrier. She's got the help of another ex-agent . . Agent Brothers. They're the ones that have been stealing money from HAMMER to try to pay these assassins. Anyways, after recuperating for a couple of weeks in Logan's cabin, he tells her where Nico and Brothers are and she goes after them. It happens just as they're trying to make a deal with another assassin, Solo. This alerts HAMMER and puts Norman on them also. He's been busy too, as he's tortured a couple of Skrulls and figured out the exact date of Elektra's abduction. He convinces Elektra that because of all the pain involved in her 'resurrections' . . "You were a good little human. You used a ninja mind trick to 'forget' your various resurrections and the events surrounding them . . including one that took place shortly before you attacked the Blackhawk. Please . . don't take my word for it. I'm sure you know the mind trick I'm talking about. Why don't you take the locks off your memories like a big girl." That's when she remembers everything. She remembers the attack, and she remembers taking down all those SHIELD agents. As she's fighting the Carrier-Commander, he's telling her that there's safety programs and that she won't be able to bring 'her' down. That's when she tell him, "You are wrong. I am Elektra Natchios. Not even the star are safe in the sky." She offers them an 'out', but . . in the end, she has to kill them both. Which greatly pleases Norman. First she got rid of his problem. And secondly he's happy because, "Now we both know what you really are." I wasn't overly thrilled with Clay Mann's art on this series. It was ok, but . . it's just not really my style. However, I was willing to look past that because I love this character so much. I thought Zeb Wells did a great job with this story. I especially liked the way he wrapped everything up. It should make for an interesting future for this character. As I blogged, she's already popped up in the Hulk. So who knows where we'll see her next. Also we had some beautiful Lee Bermejo covers here. I'm sad that it's over, but . . I'm excited to see what happens next.