Meet Elektra Natchios. This intriguing young woman has played equally intriguing roles throughout her life: gymnast. Martial artist. Ninja. Assassin! Trained in the deadliest of arts and renowned as the world’s finest killer, Elektra remains an enigma even to herself. Now, relive her first solo adventure, an epic crafted by two of comics’ greatest innovators: Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz!

An unconscious woman washes ashore off the coast of a small Central American country. Two policemen are strangled. A diplomat is assassinated. A S.H.I.E.L.D. agent is brutally dismembered. Unrelated events? Hardly. Elektra has returned – and she’s back with a vengeance! Prepare for a psychological excursion through the mind, body and soul of the world’s most dangerous woman! Collecting ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN #1-8.

Bill Sienkiewicz (pronounced sin-KEV-itch) is an Eisner-winning, Emmy-nominated artist whose work has graced the National Museum of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; art galleries in Paris, Barcelona, and Tuscany; and advertising campaigns for Nike, MTV, Nissan, the 2006 Winter Olympics, and dozens of Hollywood movies. Sienkiewicz is a classically trained painter whose artworks incorporate abstract and expressionist influences and combine oil painting, acrylics, watercolor, mixed media, collage, and mimeograph.

The first time I came across Bill Sienkiewicz’s art work, I was quickly mesmerized by the painterly, sometimes abstract nature of his work that is seldom seen in comics; certainly not mainstream comics. I always felt his style of work had an affinity to one of my fav painters, the legendary Gustav Klimt ( and by association Egon Schiele ), and I’m happy to report that the artistic influence of these two artists on his work is indeed true, as cited in his art book Revolution.

Just like both Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, Bill’s versatility in his art style and the ability to switch between graphic, almost abstract forms to highly realistic and detailed rendered images is one of the many reasons why Elektra is such a fascinating read.

(above left) A guest art piece that is clearly inspired by Gustav Klimt’s famous painting The Kiss.

A gorgeously illustrated volume featuring one of Marvel’s most iconic female characters, with almost 300 pages of full color art. My only regret is that this book was never published in hard cover format. Nonetheless, this comes highly recommended.

I also suggest checking out Bill Sienkiewicz’s most excellent art book Revolution.

“ELEKTRA : ASSASSIN – Bill Sienkiewicz” details :

Dimensions – 6.62 x 0.49 x 10.18 inches
Soft cover, 296 pages
Full color, English

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