Post by Jesse M. Huertas on Oct 3, 2007 21:14:28 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
Before I begin, sorry to all those who kinda enjoy reading my monthly rants, I'll be back on track for issue #58 and #18. We'll tackle two birds with one stone! We are with a vengeance since the contents are pretty set in stone already.
REVIEW: Issue #16 is essentially a ''remake'' of UXM #268, but with a different set of eyes in regards to all the ''revelations'' of late. Overall it was very poor and considering that they reprinted UXM #268 it made it worse when Steve Dillon was essentially copying all the scenes from Jim Lee. What they did was turn UXM 268 from an innocence encounter between two heroes to save the life of an innocent child (who is now Black Widow) into a bastardization of Way's incoherent plot. The idea of this massive conspiracy is silly enough and going no where fast, meanwhile turning every story into this is making this a harder read month in and month out. I knew that the Annual was an anomoly, this issue was terrible and lacked any progression. Sub-plots and characters from the previous issues are all but gone (Cyber, Dum Dum, ORed, Jubs, scared agents in jail cells, folks committing suicide, Condolezza Rice etc etc.) The only saving grace of this issue was the lack of Daken, who remains the worst character design and concept this decade.
Issue #17 continues the attempt to save readers by bringing in Captain America. This issue does delve deeper into the behind the scenes of WWII. Way seems stuck in UXM #268 backstory for the past 15 months. Hopefully this picks up so we can move into other territories. WWII has been done to death by Marvel. While Guggenheim is another terrible writer for Wolverine and he too hates progressing Wolverine and likes to dip into his backstory for no reason, at least he's not focusing on WWII and instead, is looking at WWI, something writers forget he was apart of. Maybe Way can dip into that sometime too. My problem with WWII at this point that Way has crammed so much of Logan's history into this time period it's almost impossible to actually piece it together. Bless those that are trying. Between Ogun, Jasmine falls, Madripoor, WWII and things in between, figuring out what happened when falls on Way to clear things out, and so far, he's making more of a mess. Move on man...move on. Anyways, this starts again in 1941 and Wolverine notes that Canada I have been involved in combat there for two years. He says that at the time he was under command of Cyber in the Devil's Brigade, and like in WWI, they did the dirty work (cue more Wolvy murdering). Wolvy says that while he knows that Cyber and him had a history together back in WWI, he didn't remember it. Him murdering Janet made Wolvy forget everything and go blank...go animalistic. Eventually they find Logan, kick his butt, give him something to be vengeful for and he's back in their clutches or something like that. Finally the story is back to Captain America before the US officially enters WWII. Like it ended last month, Wolvy was charged to join up with Captain America and bring him into the program. Logan is teamed up with Nick Fury to locate Steve Rogers. Finally with Fury's aide, he meets up again with Steve to take him up on his offer to be his partner, unknown to him that Bucky Barnes was selected to fill that role.
Nothing exciting happens again this month other than a minor appearance of Nick Fury. This issue served more as a filler story again. Hopefully something of importance happens sooner rather than later. It's been a long painful ride and we're still waiting for excitement. I can't be the only one feeling the same seeing how this book has dropped approx. 130K readers. More Steve Dillon blandness doesn't help either. If Captain America can't boost sales, then hopefully with the X-Lineup changes that are occurring thanks to Messiah CompleX, maybe..just maybe this title will get a re-evaluation by Marvel's big wigs.
GRADE: Wolverine Origins #16--1 Claw. Seriously, this issue was one of the biggest abortion of comics in a long time. They took a classic pair up and molded it into an abortion of epic sorts, completely changing the entire mythos of the story to fit Way's sick, twisted version of Wolverine. It's neither cute nor good and complete waste. To add insult to injury, they charge 3.99 because of a reprint AND an 8 page ''preview'' for Wolverine #56, which came out a week later. Steve Dillon and Way had an extra month and they couldn't add more story? I know I'm late to the party, so I hope none of ya'll were taken by this abomination.
Wolverine Origins #17--2 Claws. Nothing happens...it's completely boring and absolutely irrelevant reading once again. A Captain America appearance should be good enough to warrant a purchase, since all of a sudden he's cool again, but if it's done by Way and Dillon, just consider it non-essential. All this tells you that Bucky was Cap's partner and he initially wanted Wolvy but oh so sad. So you don't need to waste 2.99 to be told the obvious.
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
Before I begin, sorry to all those who kinda enjoy reading my monthly rants, I'll be back on track for issue #58 and #18. We'll tackle two birds with one stone! We are with a vengeance since the contents are pretty set in stone already.
REVIEW: Issue #16 is essentially a ''remake'' of UXM #268, but with a different set of eyes in regards to all the ''revelations'' of late. Overall it was very poor and considering that they reprinted UXM #268 it made it worse when Steve Dillon was essentially copying all the scenes from Jim Lee. What they did was turn UXM 268 from an innocence encounter between two heroes to save the life of an innocent child (who is now Black Widow) into a bastardization of Way's incoherent plot. The idea of this massive conspiracy is silly enough and going no where fast, meanwhile turning every story into this is making this a harder read month in and month out. I knew that the Annual was an anomoly, this issue was terrible and lacked any progression. Sub-plots and characters from the previous issues are all but gone (Cyber, Dum Dum, ORed, Jubs, scared agents in jail cells, folks committing suicide, Condolezza Rice etc etc.) The only saving grace of this issue was the lack of Daken, who remains the worst character design and concept this decade.
Issue #17 continues the attempt to save readers by bringing in Captain America. This issue does delve deeper into the behind the scenes of WWII. Way seems stuck in UXM #268 backstory for the past 15 months. Hopefully this picks up so we can move into other territories. WWII has been done to death by Marvel. While Guggenheim is another terrible writer for Wolverine and he too hates progressing Wolverine and likes to dip into his backstory for no reason, at least he's not focusing on WWII and instead, is looking at WWI, something writers forget he was apart of. Maybe Way can dip into that sometime too. My problem with WWII at this point that Way has crammed so much of Logan's history into this time period it's almost impossible to actually piece it together. Bless those that are trying. Between Ogun, Jasmine falls, Madripoor, WWII and things in between, figuring out what happened when falls on Way to clear things out, and so far, he's making more of a mess. Move on man...move on. Anyways, this starts again in 1941 and Wolverine notes that Canada I have been involved in combat there for two years. He says that at the time he was under command of Cyber in the Devil's Brigade, and like in WWI, they did the dirty work (cue more Wolvy murdering). Wolvy says that while he knows that Cyber and him had a history together back in WWI, he didn't remember it. Him murdering Janet made Wolvy forget everything and go blank...go animalistic. Eventually they find Logan, kick his butt, give him something to be vengeful for and he's back in their clutches or something like that. Finally the story is back to Captain America before the US officially enters WWII. Like it ended last month, Wolvy was charged to join up with Captain America and bring him into the program. Logan is teamed up with Nick Fury to locate Steve Rogers. Finally with Fury's aide, he meets up again with Steve to take him up on his offer to be his partner, unknown to him that Bucky Barnes was selected to fill that role.
Nothing exciting happens again this month other than a minor appearance of Nick Fury. This issue served more as a filler story again. Hopefully something of importance happens sooner rather than later. It's been a long painful ride and we're still waiting for excitement. I can't be the only one feeling the same seeing how this book has dropped approx. 130K readers. More Steve Dillon blandness doesn't help either. If Captain America can't boost sales, then hopefully with the X-Lineup changes that are occurring thanks to Messiah CompleX, maybe..just maybe this title will get a re-evaluation by Marvel's big wigs.
GRADE: Wolverine Origins #16--1 Claw. Seriously, this issue was one of the biggest abortion of comics in a long time. They took a classic pair up and molded it into an abortion of epic sorts, completely changing the entire mythos of the story to fit Way's sick, twisted version of Wolverine. It's neither cute nor good and complete waste. To add insult to injury, they charge 3.99 because of a reprint AND an 8 page ''preview'' for Wolverine #56, which came out a week later. Steve Dillon and Way had an extra month and they couldn't add more story? I know I'm late to the party, so I hope none of ya'll were taken by this abomination.
Wolverine Origins #17--2 Claws. Nothing happens...it's completely boring and absolutely irrelevant reading once again. A Captain America appearance should be good enough to warrant a purchase, since all of a sudden he's cool again, but if it's done by Way and Dillon, just consider it non-essential. All this tells you that Bucky was Cap's partner and he initially wanted Wolvy but oh so sad. So you don't need to waste 2.99 to be told the obvious.