I have one called "Avengers Prelude: Fury's Big Week", that the one? I liked it okay, but I wouldn't consider it a must-read.

pros: We get to see more of Fury, his orchestrating connects the various episodes. And there's more of Natasha, too. Those are the reasons I overall ended up liking this comic. The episodes themselves are missing moments from the movies; they're fine to read.

cons: The likenesses are hit and miss. More miss than hit, depending on the artist. Unfortunately the artists who're drawing the chapters with Clint or Natasha don't have any kind of handle on the characters, imo.

I don't remember details about the storylines themselves... not terrible, but nothing special. Most fic I read is more compelling.

I didn't regret bying this one (unlike "Road to Marvel's The Avengers) but that's all. (Whereas Black Widow, The Name of the Rose knocked my socks off.)

Thanks for sharing this and for bringing up the Black Widow graphic novel. Seems like I'll be buying a few graphic novels. ;)

Welcome. I just bought two myself, after reading the other comments. (I waxed poetic about the Black Widow graphic novel here: http://astridv.livejournal.com/334633.html)

Yeah, I have Fury's Big Week, too - I mostly use it for snippets and to help string the movies together, and then bounce off that to think up my own spin of events.

The art is so very hit and miss.