Overwatch Fan Makes Amazing Widowmaker Manga
It’s entirely possible to play and enjoy Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch as nothing but a fun and colorful hero shooter. However, the franchise has expansive background lore fleshed out in various Overwatch comics, videos, and other sources.
These stories inspired one Overwatch fan to create a short but brilliantly drawn manga about the character Widowmaker. The seven-page comic emphasizes the sadder side of Widowmaker’s backstory, reminding fans that there’s more to the blue-skinned sniper than cold one-liners and some light fan service.
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Created by Reddit user Nebcrafter, the fan-manga seems to draw inspiration from a panel in the Overwatch comic Tracer: Reflections, published in 2016. At one point in the volume, Widowmaker visits her husband’s grave on Christmas, leaving a single red rose. The fan-made manga is expertly drawn and shows a similar event. It begins with Widowmaker visiting her husband’s grave during a storm, where she contemplates her husband’s death and the cold assassin she’s become. However, Widowmaker realizes that she’s lost the ability to cry along with most of her human emotions and that her work is the only thing she still cares about. Ultimately, Widowmaker walks away, deciding that the old her has been dead for a long time.
For anyone unfamiliar with the details of Widowmaker’s backstory, she was once a Parisian ballet dancer named Amelie Guillard. Her husband, Gerard Lacroix, was a senior Overwatch agent leading their operations against the terrorist group Talon, one of the narrative’s main antagonists. After multiple failed attempts on Gerard’s life, the organization kidnapped Amelie and brainwashed her to act as a sleeper
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