Larry 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.
I've always loved the aesthetic of Patch and was really excited to see what kind of story would require Wolverine to don a homage to Humphrey Bogart. A lawless island, a seedy club and questionable patrons all seemed like really cool ingredients to a story about an incognito Mutant.
Unfortunately, by page 5 none of those ingredients seem to matter as our protagonist is just in a big jungle fight with multiple parties who seem to offer no consequence to the narrative development of the story.
Standard fare with a dash of really cool character design that sadly just isn't utilised to augment the narrative or tell a fresh kind of story.
Exciting and nicely violent, Wolverine spends a lot of his time in a jungle killing bad folk accompanied by a plethora of wonderful slashing onomatopoeias. There is a story in here somewhere, but there's basically three factions duking it out with Wolverine caught in the middle. A lot of mindless fun.