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A review by helpfulsnowman
Death of Wolverine by Charles Soule
3.0
The first 4 pages might be my all-time favorite Wolverine pages. Well, barring, "Now it's MY turn!"
We get this cold open, and then a frank conversation between Reed Richards and Wolverine that's just, to be a comics geek about it, totally heartbreaking.
Wolverine has survived a lot, and the simplicity of Richards saying, "Didn't you tell me once you were present at Nagasaki?" followed by a panel of the mushroom cloud, followed by Wolverine's "Yeah." brought the whole thing home for me.
What's it like to be Wolverine? The deathless, ageless X-Man who's also seen and done some of the most heinous shit? Who could definitely accuse Charles Xavier of using him like a dog, keeping him around to do some dirty work sometimes.
After these pages, we got a few more good ones, and then we get to some C-class villains and nonsense that lead Wolverine down a trail that ends in decent fashion, but man does it feel like we waste a lot of time slumming it with characters I couldn't care less about in order to get there.
Hats off to Steve McNiven, however. The facial expressions in those first few pages alone are really incredible. Great, great art.
We get this cold open, and then a frank conversation between Reed Richards and Wolverine that's just, to be a comics geek about it, totally heartbreaking.
Wolverine has survived a lot, and the simplicity of Richards saying, "Didn't you tell me once you were present at Nagasaki?" followed by a panel of the mushroom cloud, followed by Wolverine's "Yeah." brought the whole thing home for me.
What's it like to be Wolverine? The deathless, ageless X-Man who's also seen and done some of the most heinous shit? Who could definitely accuse Charles Xavier of using him like a dog, keeping him around to do some dirty work sometimes.
After these pages, we got a few more good ones, and then we get to some C-class villains and nonsense that lead Wolverine down a trail that ends in decent fashion, but man does it feel like we waste a lot of time slumming it with characters I couldn't care less about in order to get there.
Hats off to Steve McNiven, however. The facial expressions in those first few pages alone are really incredible. Great, great art.