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Thank God for Aaron
and Way. Otherwise I wouldn't be getting the
Wolverine fix I need.
This issue starts
great. Wolverine in SF. Chinatown. Knowing he
has a debt. Him and Nightcrawler in Logan's
bedroom with the joke about Wolverine packing
light (one box and a bed and some beer, that's
all he needs). It's perfect. It feels like
Logan.
Toss him into an
unlikely situation with samurai, ninja, dragons,
and a blood debt and you've got yourself the
makings of a kickass Wolverine story. You see,
it seems that something big and bad happened 50
years ago that people haven't forgotten and now
Logan has to pay up that debt. And it looks to
be quite awesome.
The virtues of this
book are the creative team. Pure and simple. By
putting Aaron and Segovia in the driver's seat,
we are given a gritty, down-to-basics Logan
story that revolves around a central mystery of
what he did in his past and how he screwed some
people over, and we're going to get to see him
and some other karate enthusiasts kick some ass.
It looks awesome. The cover, by Dave Wilkins,
brings the badass by showing a Wolverine flowing
with anger and power, short, stocky, and ready
to just tear you to pieces.
And Segovia, having
an art style reminiscent of my favorite
Wolverine artist, Leinil Yu, makes the package
all the better. You've heard all about how I
love Aaron's work on Wolverine and Ghost Rider,
so this is just a natural progression of this.
It seems very Big Trouble in Little China, and
that being one of my favorite movies makes me
very excited to see how this comic plays out.
When Wolverine's
ex-girlfriend shows up at the end, one can only
assume that this is going to be big. And bad. |