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Wolverine by Larry Hama & Marc Silvestri
Wolverine by Larry Hama & Marc Silvestri, Vol. 2
The Reavers have cooked up their deadliest cyborgs yet: Albert, a mechanical doppelganger of Wolverine - and his partner, the cute widdle Elsie-Dee! But that's just the start of the madness, as Wolverine is targeted by mob enforcers, body-slammed by a stealth fighter, sucked into the sewers, and savaged by Sabretooth - who somehow came to believe that he is Wolverine's father! Jubilee, Forge, Cable and Nick Fury come to Wolverine's aid, but when the mythical Hunter in Darkness is captured and Lady Deathstrike arrives to take her revenge on Logan, it leads to a blood-soaked four-way claw fight in Times Square that can't possibly end well! COLLECTING: WOLVERINE (1988) 38-46, WOLVERINE: RAHNE OF TERRA
200 pages, Paperback
First published February 4, 2014
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Larry Hama
1,955 books152 followersLarry Hama is an American writer, artist, actor and musician who has worked in the fields of entertainment and publishing since the 1960s.
During the 1970s, he was seen in minor roles on the TV shows M*A*S*H and Saturday Night Live, and appeared on Broadway in two roles in the original 1976 production of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures.
He is best known to American comic book readers as a writer and editor for Marvel Comics, where he wrote the licensed comic book series G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero, based on the Hasbro action figures. He has also written for the series Wolverine, Nth Man: the Ultimate Ninja, and Elektra. He created the character Bucky O'Hare, which was developed into a comic book, a toy line and television cartoon.
During the 1970s, he was seen in minor roles on the TV shows M*A*S*H and Saturday Night Live, and appeared on Broadway in two roles in the original 1976 production of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures.
He is best known to American comic book readers as a writer and editor for Marvel Comics, where he wrote the licensed comic book series G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero, based on the Hasbro action figures. He has also written for the series Wolverine, Nth Man: the Ultimate Ninja, and Elektra. He created the character Bucky O'Hare, which was developed into a comic book, a toy line and television cartoon.
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June 26, 2020
3.75 stars. I first seen the Android Wolverine Albert in Hunt for wolverine Weapon Lost. Then looked him up and saw he first appeared in these issues. Finally got to read it. Pretty good I’d say. The leader of the Reavers, Pierce, created the robot Wolverine, Albert and the child robot, Elsie Dee. Albert was made to lure Logan out and Elsie Dee was to play the innocent kid. When Wolverine rescued here and picked her up, she was to explode the plastic throughout her body and kill Logan. However, when they finally met, Elsie Dee had a change of heart and tried to override her programming to kill Logan. Elsie was just so stinking cute. When she tried to take Cable’s gun was the best. 😂. Absolutely loved her.
At the end of the book was a 64 page separate story by Peter David, Rahne of Terra. This was pretty cool. Rahne is swapped out from this reality with a princess from a different world. In this new world there were alternate versions of the New Mutants. This was all done by a Mage from this different world in order to protect the princess. Peter David did some cool things mimicking their Powers with their counterparts in this alternate reality. Fun read.
At the end of the book was a 64 page separate story by Peter David, Rahne of Terra. This was pretty cool. Rahne is swapped out from this reality with a princess from a different world. In this new world there were alternate versions of the New Mutants. This was all done by a Mage from this different world in order to protect the princess. Peter David did some cool things mimicking their Powers with their counterparts in this alternate reality. Fun read.
January 13, 2024
2,5*
Though I like Larry Hama’s style- a lightness in tone I find quite refreshing- I’m afraid the Elsie-Dee/Albert storyline drags on too long.
The second storyline is poorly conceived with antagonists awkardly crammed in for plot reason. And these guys talk way too much when fighting dammit!
The book closes with the sword & sorcery mumbo-jumbo Rahne of Terra. I don’t like these easy fantasy transpositions and I don’t like Andy Kubert so that’s that.
Though I like Larry Hama’s style- a lightness in tone I find quite refreshing- I’m afraid the Elsie-Dee/Albert storyline drags on too long.
The second storyline is poorly conceived with antagonists awkardly crammed in for plot reason. And these guys talk way too much when fighting dammit!
The book closes with the sword & sorcery mumbo-jumbo Rahne of Terra. I don’t like these easy fantasy transpositions and I don’t like Andy Kubert so that’s that.
March 24, 2019
Elsie Dee and Albert of some of the best supporting characters I've seen so far and i really hope that I haven't seen the last of them.
Rahne of Terra is an epic fantasy one shot that brings marvel characters into a medieval setting.
Rahne of Terra is an epic fantasy one shot that brings marvel characters into a medieval setting.
April 5, 2018
Runs the gamut from stupid to not so bad. Wow they sure did use some garish colors back in the day. The first story with Elsie Dee and Albert were hard to take and I put this book down for weeks - only to finish reading it after it was due at the library. And the next bit with Sabretooth - tired of Sabretooth. But the alternate fantasy world with Princess Rahne wasn't bad - actually a lot better than I would have expected. So maybe it's time I stopped reading old Wolverine.
July 19, 2024
The saga of a widduh chiwud andwoid and a duplicate of Wolverine is better than I remember. I don't like it but I managed to get through it this time. I think I put it down after the second or third cutesy-wootsy turn of phrase the last time I tried to read this run.
While hardly The Best Wolverine Story, it does feel fresher now that the series isn't stuck in Madripoor. Getting to see Storm, Forge, Cable, and Jubilee drop in and out of the plot was certainly more interesting than Jessica Drew and Lindsay MacCabe. Still, the story kept going well past the point of interesting. I felt like once they blow up a character, they'd be done with, but two characters have big finale explosions, only to pop again a couple of issues later.
The collection ends with another fantasy-based Wolfsbane story. This is the first one in the Wolverine series but there were a few when she was a member of The New Mutants. I didn't care about those. I don't care about this one. I enjoy Wolfsbane the mutant with conflicted feelings about her religion and her place in a superhero team. I don't care about how she dreams of being a fairy princess and just might actually be one.
While this is an improvement over the previous books, and I would definitely say Wolverine fans should peruse this and see if it speaks to them, it's not enough for me to add it to the Headcanon. Nor do I imagine I'll be reading it again.
While hardly The Best Wolverine Story, it does feel fresher now that the series isn't stuck in Madripoor. Getting to see Storm, Forge, Cable, and Jubilee drop in and out of the plot was certainly more interesting than Jessica Drew and Lindsay MacCabe. Still, the story kept going well past the point of interesting. I felt like once they blow up a character, they'd be done with, but two characters have big finale explosions, only to pop again a couple of issues later.
The collection ends with another fantasy-based Wolfsbane story. This is the first one in the Wolverine series but there were a few when she was a member of The New Mutants. I didn't care about those. I don't care about this one. I enjoy Wolfsbane the mutant with conflicted feelings about her religion and her place in a superhero team. I don't care about how she dreams of being a fairy princess and just might actually be one.
While this is an improvement over the previous books, and I would definitely say Wolverine fans should peruse this and see if it speaks to them, it's not enough for me to add it to the Headcanon. Nor do I imagine I'll be reading it again.
December 2, 2022
Subtlety isn't the watchword for Larry Hama's "Wolverine" run. This volume sees a rebuilt android rhapsodizing about freedom while standing atop an experimental stealth aircraft he's flying across the country. Wolverine sees himself speared by said aircraft atop the World Trade Center; he gets caught in the "gears" of the New York City sewer and has several extended claw matches with Sabretooth, who insists he's Wolverine's father and needs to kill him.
It doesn't work quite as well as the previous volume (which is near perfect, in my opinion). Here Hama leans too much into the gonzo plotting and outrageous grudges. It's still fun, with Hama's Wolverine having some devil-may-care humor to balance all the beserker/samurai stuff.
The art by Marc Silvestri is great throughout. Detailed, evocative, crisp--it manages the range from pool hall to Morlock sewers and is always lively with the action.
It doesn't work quite as well as the previous volume (which is near perfect, in my opinion). Here Hama leans too much into the gonzo plotting and outrageous grudges. It's still fun, with Hama's Wolverine having some devil-may-care humor to balance all the beserker/samurai stuff.
The art by Marc Silvestri is great throughout. Detailed, evocative, crisp--it manages the range from pool hall to Morlock sewers and is always lively with the action.
January 25, 2017
Nice to see some of the best work that Marc Silvestri turned in to Marvel in this volume. Kinda tough to read through some of the juvenile '90s writing. Some of these issues could have been X-Men issues if the writing wasn't so bad. Don't get me wrong, the stories are fun, but the dialogue and characterizations are pretty damn poor. Also, not a huge fan of that Rahne of Terra special issue. It was a sad, muddy mess that really was not very good.
June 6, 2020
Thoroughly enjoyable. One long story for Wolverine that has many callbacks to the full series so far. The only downfall is the awful dialect in the first few issues and the annoying baby talk that plagues the B story throughout.
October 16, 2018
Wolverine is always best as a reluctant father figure
September 12, 2018
This story is about Albert and Elsie 2 cyborgs created by the Reavers to get rid of Wolverine . Characters start of very one note but grow as the story progresses and become more likable and slowly make a change towards more human making there own decisions and caring about peoples actions and there own. Fun read with a few random filler one shot issues that had nothing to do with the story and killed the momentum . i give it a 6.5/10 check out my video review in the link - https://youtu.be/BCVqZQbFXEk
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