X-Men: X-Verse - Wolverine

X-Men: X-Verse

by Fred Van Lente

Collects First Class (2008) #1, 5, 17, 21; Wolverine and Power Pack (2008) #1. In the uncanny X-Verse, he's the best there is at what he does! Join Wolverine on his wildest adventures! When Professor X tasks Logan with taking new student Kitty Pryde under his wing, neither of them is happy about the arrangement - but they'll need to work together to survive the experience! But does Wolverine's future lie with the X-Men? Or back with his old team, Alpha Flight? Why is he going undercover wearing an eyepatch?! And shouldn't Logan be teaching Kitty valuable lessons, rather than trying to take her apart? Logan teams up with the young heroes of Power Pack for a fight at the museum against the winged menace Sauron!

Genres: Comics

121 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 27, 2023

About the author

Fred Van Lente is the New York Times-bestselling author of comics as varied as Archer & Armstrong (Harvey Award nominee, Best Series), Taskmaster, MODOK's 11, Amazing Spider-Man, Conan the Avenger, Weird Detective, and Cowboys & Aliens (upon which the 2011 movie was based), as well as the novels Ten Dead Comedians and The Con Artist.

Van Lente also specializes in entertaining readers with offbeat histories with the help of his incredibly talented artists. He has written the multiple-award winning Action Philosophers!, The Comic Book History of Comics, Action Presidents! (all drawn by Ryan Dunlavey), and The Comic Book Story of Basketball with Joe Cooper (Ten Speed September 2020).

He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Crystal Skillman, and some mostly ungrateful cats.

Reviews

[Brody · Rating 5 out of 5]

The art in this was fantastic, especially in the First Class issues.

[Tue Le · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first story, featuring an early adventure of Kitty Pryde as a freshly recruited X-Man serving alongside Wolverine, a seasoned fighter, was the best. The second story had some hocus pocus in it so I was not interested. But it was easy to see why Alpha Flight was no where near as famous among readers as the X-Men, and Wolverine is an X-Man! The third story was alright, though the artist clearly conflated Kitty Pryde with Jean Grey (why?). Pryde was a brunette with large brown eyes; Grey was a redhead with green or blue eyes. The fourth story was solid. The last story was a bit disappointing. It was clearly for much younger readers, but the plot was not very tight. Wolverine was never a babysitter. He could handle more psychologically mature teenagers like Kitty Pryde, but a bunch of pre-adolescents was a different kettle of fish altogether.

I suppose this book could be in the collection of a public library, especially in the children's section, and a school library.

[Adam Rodgers · Rating 2 out of 5]

Four Wolverine adventures, as he mentors Kitty Pryde and other young heroes.

While probably aimed at a younger audience than me, these are okay stories but a bit by the numbers. We see the most famous X-man team up with Kitty Pride, and later Power Pack against various foes and challenges. Kitty over shadows Logan a bit in places, almost taking centre stage, but these are light stories that touch on Wolverine's history rather than going into specifics. The artwork too is decent throughout, but these tales of the Canadian berserker feel a bit too sanitised for my liking.

[Sam P · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dissapointing selection of stories compared to other character books of this series. Three of the four stories are more about Kitty Pryde than Wolverine and the last story is Wolverine teaming up with little kids. Readable but could be so much more.

[nadia · Rating 3 out of 5]

errrr probably made for a younger age group but it’s still logan so i’m jolly asf

[Alicia · Rating 2 out of 5]

I chose this book to be the X that I was missing for my read-the-alphabet challenge. To say the least, it was not super great. A compilation of random wolverine x-men issues of the graphic comics compiled into a short graphic novel.