Post by Jesse M. Huertas on Jul 29, 2007 21:32:08 GMT -5
5 Claws: A must have for your collection
4 Claws: A worthy 3 dollar spend
3 Claws: Not too crappy, yet nothing special
2 Claws: Seriously not worth your time nor money
1 Claw: This book belongs in your burn pile
Review: This month concludes Jeph Loeb's universally slammed, yet ridiculously sold 6 part arc titled Evolution, and us Wolverine fans couldn't be more pleased. If you like decent pictures in your comics then this is for you, but if your also interested in even mildly competent stories then stay away. This is a type of story that can make you quit comics, no lie. Neither the concept, nor the execution of this story worked. Jeph ''wanted'' to give the backstory on the hatred and rivalry between Sabretooth and Wolverine, yet none of that occurs throughout this entire story. We are force fed some ridiculous concept that they hate eachother because they are blonde and black haired descendants of some ancient man-wolf tribe headed by some immortal lame bad guy named Romulus. Seriously, that is the story that Jeph can come up with, I don't make this stuff up. Someone thought it was ''kewl'' in Marvel to go along with this. All the good that Joe Q has done for Marvel is shot for allowing this tripe in his books. Bowing over for a pretty terrible yet for some odd reason high selling writer is lame. And the worst thing is that since it sold well, front offices will take it as fans enjoyed this story, hence more future stupid stories will take place. "Fans" have disgusted me for the amount of sales this story produced.
There has gotta be alot of brass balls in Loeb to just think that changing the fundamentals of Wolverine is a great idea. Throughout this whole story there was nothing but huge continuity glitches throughout and Loeb quickly tries to fix them in this final chapter, ranging from Thorrn and Feral back to Silver Fox. Absolutley no editing went on for this book, so now I have to question what the hell Axel Alonso even does. I guess you have a high profile writer you just allow him to do whatever the hell he wants, logic be damned. Hell he is quoted in Broken Frontier as crediting Brian Bendis for the creation of the Muramasa Blade...THEY HAVE THE SAME EDITOR!!!
Another gripe was the introduction of Romulus. For no apparent reason he is the man behind Weapon Plus, X or whatever. How many different directors are there? Is John Sublime even recognized in Marvel anymore? We are supposed to care that he's around, yet he doesn't show his face, so he is nothing more than a one tote villian with absolutely no redeeming qualities as a character, so now it's up to Daniel Way to flesh him out, and we all know about Daken already, so it's a lost cause already. To make him badass he most definitely needs black fingerpaint and earrings, almost guaranteed at this point.
So nothing is fleshed out about the history of Sabretooth and Wolverine, the entire Quod Sum Eris BS is supposed to signify that since Sabes is older that eventually Wolverine will become like him, for what reasons, the world will never know, but Jeph thinks it's cool, this only contradicts 35+ years of Wolverine history where Sabes relishes in his violence, which was cool, whereas Wolverine fought day in and day out to maintain control, so now just because he'll get older one day, he'll be like Sabretooth. Yep...that's the premise
Last month we see Sabretooth rip Feral to threads, A-Ok, classic Sabretooth that I enjoy, he busted out a lab tube or whatever and was beserk, for some reason Wolverine lets him go to kill god knows who else while he fetches the Muramasa blade that Bendis created. The blade was supposed to be forged of Wolverine's soul or something and only lethal basically to him, but now since they are both like lupine dogs or cats or sasquatches or whatever, this blade is now lethal to all of them, so watch out you magical sasquatch! He goes to Cyclops to get the blade yet Cyclops needs White Queen to VERIFY that Sabes is a mean guy...seriously, I don't make this stuff up people.
So now we are to the conclusion where Wolverine is ready to ''fight'' Sabretooth. Sabretooth shows up in his classic 90's uniform...for??? I will never know, I guess he keeps a warddrobe in the wilderness for when Wolvie kills him. I guess he wasn't as stupid as we were told. So yeah, this ending could quite possibly to the most offensive send off for a character in comic book history. The real Sabretooth would go out fighting like one of the most deadliest villians in comic book history should, and if he were to fall he would most certainly taunt Logan before it's over, but not here folks. Wolverine cuts off his arms, Sabes tries to put it back, no can do...he then...CRIES and lets Wolverine chop off his head. No really...that what happens, one of the most vile, evil, viscious characters ever created CRIES before allowing his mortal enemy chop off his head, with no fight. Someone thought we'd empathize with Sabretooth because he CRIES for being a lacky or whatever, we as readers are meant to loathe Sabretooth because he's not a bad guy with a tragic past like Magneto, he was an evil rat bastard just because he was bad ass and nobody could do a damn thing about it, that was his deal a mecernary for hire who enjoyed the kill, so we get a bubbling buffoon Sabretooth who CRIES before being executed. No other character that I can remember was treated as poorly in their final panel quite like Sabretooth...he seriously CRIES.
I don't normally promote quick ret-cons, but this is in order, I'm willing to believe and buy that the Sabretooth that busted out and was killed was a clone that Romulus and Sinister created (Sinister worked for Weapon X and cloned Sabes before back in X-Men #34, and since Romulus is now the secret head of Weapon X, we put two and two together, unless Jeph didn't look to far into it which I don't doubt). Romulus wanted to see how far Wolverine would go and rather dispatch a clone than the ''real deal'' (remember the cool sh*t Sabes use to do, just cause?). I can buy this despite how generic Romulus actually is. And I hope someone of interest is reading this to make it happen, I won't even charge a commission.
Wolverine like all characters aren't exempt from crappy stories, they all get them and it's ok, but no character deserves this, no character even deserves Jeph Loeb writing them. All you fans of the Ultimates, I feel sorry for. This story lacked any type basic fundamentals of writing that one would learn in the third grade, the way this was presented would make a novice writer cringe in shame. It's crap like this that will keep comics from becoming a phenemenon like in the 90's. This is comics at it's worst. For me the worst stories in Wolverine lore were "The Great Escape" and "Crunch Conundrum". Those books now seem like god sends. The Draco and other Chuck Austin and Peter Milligan written X-stories deserve Eisner Awards compared to this. The story that Jeph ripped off, aptly written by Austin, titled Dominant Species was infinitely written better than this garbled mess. This can only be described as possibly the worst comic book story ever, if not the worst, it's right up there, an in that line there is no hyperbole. If Jeph came back to write Wolverine I wouldn't touch it in my LCS nor would I even use YOUR 3 dollars to purchase it. He writes one decent story (Superman: FaS) and everyone thinks his sh*t don't stink. The faster he leaves the comic scene the better
Rating: 0 Claws. Putting this book in your burn pile would be an insult to those books. I wouldn't even recommended wiping your arse with this book, it just ain't worth it. If you possibly can think this story is good and you claim to be a Wolverine fan, then there is no hope for you and you should just stop collecting comics because you encourage crap stories and it damages the hobby we love. If you love Wolverine you would send back your copy to Marvel wrapped in dog crap to show your disgust, I'm doing just that as we speak. This is the worst I've ever read and the worst you've ever read. If your offended, I can't say that I'm sorry, they never said the truth wouldn't hurt.
Marvel, it's time for a change and give Wolverine an even competent writer for a change. It's time to stop messing with his backstory and making it even more confusing, focus on the future and developing you know a supporting cast and enemies and bring back Sabretooth, NOT LIKE THIS...NOT LIKE THIS
R.I.P Victor Creed
4 Claws: A worthy 3 dollar spend
3 Claws: Not too crappy, yet nothing special
2 Claws: Seriously not worth your time nor money
1 Claw: This book belongs in your burn pile
Review: This month concludes Jeph Loeb's universally slammed, yet ridiculously sold 6 part arc titled Evolution, and us Wolverine fans couldn't be more pleased. If you like decent pictures in your comics then this is for you, but if your also interested in even mildly competent stories then stay away. This is a type of story that can make you quit comics, no lie. Neither the concept, nor the execution of this story worked. Jeph ''wanted'' to give the backstory on the hatred and rivalry between Sabretooth and Wolverine, yet none of that occurs throughout this entire story. We are force fed some ridiculous concept that they hate eachother because they are blonde and black haired descendants of some ancient man-wolf tribe headed by some immortal lame bad guy named Romulus. Seriously, that is the story that Jeph can come up with, I don't make this stuff up. Someone thought it was ''kewl'' in Marvel to go along with this. All the good that Joe Q has done for Marvel is shot for allowing this tripe in his books. Bowing over for a pretty terrible yet for some odd reason high selling writer is lame. And the worst thing is that since it sold well, front offices will take it as fans enjoyed this story, hence more future stupid stories will take place. "Fans" have disgusted me for the amount of sales this story produced.
There has gotta be alot of brass balls in Loeb to just think that changing the fundamentals of Wolverine is a great idea. Throughout this whole story there was nothing but huge continuity glitches throughout and Loeb quickly tries to fix them in this final chapter, ranging from Thorrn and Feral back to Silver Fox. Absolutley no editing went on for this book, so now I have to question what the hell Axel Alonso even does. I guess you have a high profile writer you just allow him to do whatever the hell he wants, logic be damned. Hell he is quoted in Broken Frontier as crediting Brian Bendis for the creation of the Muramasa Blade...THEY HAVE THE SAME EDITOR!!!
Another gripe was the introduction of Romulus. For no apparent reason he is the man behind Weapon Plus, X or whatever. How many different directors are there? Is John Sublime even recognized in Marvel anymore? We are supposed to care that he's around, yet he doesn't show his face, so he is nothing more than a one tote villian with absolutely no redeeming qualities as a character, so now it's up to Daniel Way to flesh him out, and we all know about Daken already, so it's a lost cause already. To make him badass he most definitely needs black fingerpaint and earrings, almost guaranteed at this point.
So nothing is fleshed out about the history of Sabretooth and Wolverine, the entire Quod Sum Eris BS is supposed to signify that since Sabes is older that eventually Wolverine will become like him, for what reasons, the world will never know, but Jeph thinks it's cool, this only contradicts 35+ years of Wolverine history where Sabes relishes in his violence, which was cool, whereas Wolverine fought day in and day out to maintain control, so now just because he'll get older one day, he'll be like Sabretooth. Yep...that's the premise
Last month we see Sabretooth rip Feral to threads, A-Ok, classic Sabretooth that I enjoy, he busted out a lab tube or whatever and was beserk, for some reason Wolverine lets him go to kill god knows who else while he fetches the Muramasa blade that Bendis created. The blade was supposed to be forged of Wolverine's soul or something and only lethal basically to him, but now since they are both like lupine dogs or cats or sasquatches or whatever, this blade is now lethal to all of them, so watch out you magical sasquatch! He goes to Cyclops to get the blade yet Cyclops needs White Queen to VERIFY that Sabes is a mean guy...seriously, I don't make this stuff up people.
So now we are to the conclusion where Wolverine is ready to ''fight'' Sabretooth. Sabretooth shows up in his classic 90's uniform...for??? I will never know, I guess he keeps a warddrobe in the wilderness for when Wolvie kills him. I guess he wasn't as stupid as we were told. So yeah, this ending could quite possibly to the most offensive send off for a character in comic book history. The real Sabretooth would go out fighting like one of the most deadliest villians in comic book history should, and if he were to fall he would most certainly taunt Logan before it's over, but not here folks. Wolverine cuts off his arms, Sabes tries to put it back, no can do...he then...CRIES and lets Wolverine chop off his head. No really...that what happens, one of the most vile, evil, viscious characters ever created CRIES before allowing his mortal enemy chop off his head, with no fight. Someone thought we'd empathize with Sabretooth because he CRIES for being a lacky or whatever, we as readers are meant to loathe Sabretooth because he's not a bad guy with a tragic past like Magneto, he was an evil rat bastard just because he was bad ass and nobody could do a damn thing about it, that was his deal a mecernary for hire who enjoyed the kill, so we get a bubbling buffoon Sabretooth who CRIES before being executed. No other character that I can remember was treated as poorly in their final panel quite like Sabretooth...he seriously CRIES.
I don't normally promote quick ret-cons, but this is in order, I'm willing to believe and buy that the Sabretooth that busted out and was killed was a clone that Romulus and Sinister created (Sinister worked for Weapon X and cloned Sabes before back in X-Men #34, and since Romulus is now the secret head of Weapon X, we put two and two together, unless Jeph didn't look to far into it which I don't doubt). Romulus wanted to see how far Wolverine would go and rather dispatch a clone than the ''real deal'' (remember the cool sh*t Sabes use to do, just cause?). I can buy this despite how generic Romulus actually is. And I hope someone of interest is reading this to make it happen, I won't even charge a commission.
Wolverine like all characters aren't exempt from crappy stories, they all get them and it's ok, but no character deserves this, no character even deserves Jeph Loeb writing them. All you fans of the Ultimates, I feel sorry for. This story lacked any type basic fundamentals of writing that one would learn in the third grade, the way this was presented would make a novice writer cringe in shame. It's crap like this that will keep comics from becoming a phenemenon like in the 90's. This is comics at it's worst. For me the worst stories in Wolverine lore were "The Great Escape" and "Crunch Conundrum". Those books now seem like god sends. The Draco and other Chuck Austin and Peter Milligan written X-stories deserve Eisner Awards compared to this. The story that Jeph ripped off, aptly written by Austin, titled Dominant Species was infinitely written better than this garbled mess. This can only be described as possibly the worst comic book story ever, if not the worst, it's right up there, an in that line there is no hyperbole. If Jeph came back to write Wolverine I wouldn't touch it in my LCS nor would I even use YOUR 3 dollars to purchase it. He writes one decent story (Superman: FaS) and everyone thinks his sh*t don't stink. The faster he leaves the comic scene the better
Rating: 0 Claws. Putting this book in your burn pile would be an insult to those books. I wouldn't even recommended wiping your arse with this book, it just ain't worth it. If you possibly can think this story is good and you claim to be a Wolverine fan, then there is no hope for you and you should just stop collecting comics because you encourage crap stories and it damages the hobby we love. If you love Wolverine you would send back your copy to Marvel wrapped in dog crap to show your disgust, I'm doing just that as we speak. This is the worst I've ever read and the worst you've ever read. If your offended, I can't say that I'm sorry, they never said the truth wouldn't hurt.
Marvel, it's time for a change and give Wolverine an even competent writer for a change. It's time to stop messing with his backstory and making it even more confusing, focus on the future and developing you know a supporting cast and enemies and bring back Sabretooth, NOT LIKE THIS...NOT LIKE THIS
R.I.P Victor Creed
