Wolverine: Revenge

Wolverine: Revenge #1-5

by Jonathan Hickman, Greg Capullo (Penciler), Tim Townsend (Inker)

The best there is, by two of the finest around! Greg Capullo makes his grand return to Marvel Comics storytelling, teaming with top-tier writer Jonathan Hickman to pit Wolverine against a cadre of foes who will turn his world upside down! He’s been beaten! He’s been bloodied! But Logan only has one thought on his mind: revenge! Because the unspeakable has come to pass – and now Sabretooth, Omega Red, and Deadpool will pay! As Hickman and Capullo take Wolverine to the brink like never before, the path of vengeance he embarks on is a long and winding one – and you’ll never guess where it leads!

Collecting WOLVERINE: REVENGE #1-5. RATED PARENTAL ADVISORY.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Marvel, X Men, Superheroes, Graphic Novels Comics, Fiction

144 pages, Paperback

Published June 24, 2025

About the author

Jonathan Hickman is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for creating the Image Comics series The Nightly News, The Manhattan Projects and East of West, as well as working on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, FF, and S.H.I.E.L.D. titles. In 2012, Hickman ended his run on the Fantastic Four titles to write The Avengers and The New Avengers, as part the "Marvel NOW!" relaunch. In 2013, Hickman wrote a six-part miniseries, Infinity, plus Avengers tie-ins for Marvel Comics. In 2015, he wrote the crossover event Secret Wars. - Wikipedia

Reviews

[Khurram · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have got to say the book was better than I thought it would be and even surprised me s couple of times. It is what it says in the title. A revenge tour over the years.

The world as we know it has come to an end. The only hope of saving life as we know it for the survivors is for Wolverine and his team to steal a generator, but the people who have it don't want to share. How far and for how long will Wolverine pursue his vendetta? However, revenge breeds revenge.

A good book not complicated just Wolverine doing what he does. There is even a decent message at the end. The book finishes with a variant covers gallery.

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.8 stars

[Anthony · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story is pretty simple, albeit fine. The artwork is the highlight of the book

[Frédéric · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5*

A pure no-brainer: Wolvie brutally takes revenge on a gang of villains (including Piotr for whatever reason) but violence begets violence blah-blah-blah...
Who cares, really?
It doesn't break new ground, it doesn't go anywhere, it's just regressive fun, blood and guts all over the place but it's very well written, the pacing is solid, and Capulo is having a blast, and so are we.

[Anna Quilter · Rating 4 out of 5]

quite possibly the 4 stars are for Greg Capullo's art...the story is pretty straightforward....although Colossus role could have been exploited a little more.

[Logan · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent mini-series with Greg Capullo's art being the main show stealer. What's interesting about this one as it was part of Marvel's Red Band initiative where they would have two version of each issue, one being the normal one and the other red band that has more violence. I read this in singles with issues 1-4 being the red band versions and the last issue I just read the normal comic. While sometime's its just the same panels with gorier art, they do include some new pages with brutal death scenes for the bad guys and again shows Capullo's impeciable art.

The story was good but it's a pretty simple revenge story all things considered, but that's all you really need for a Wolverine comic. Not a must read for it's story, but definitely one for the artwork alone.

[Kamiab Ghorbanpour · Rating 2 out of 5]

It sure is about revenge...
Man, this was Hickman's worst work, I think.

[Mario V · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was really good! In issue #3 when he talks to Deadpool I can’t lie that is some of the best comic book literature I have ever read. Superstar team creates a superstar comic and that’s what I got when reading it 🤩

[Guilherme Smee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Não seja como eu e iluda-se de que esta minissérie, aqui no Brasil, publicada em um encadernado só, se trata de algo relacionado com a continuidade normal. Ela se passa em uma terra alternativa, mas que tem alguns elementos da realidade 616 da Marvel. Parece que é uma tentativa descompromissada de Jonathan Hickman brincar com esses personagens ao seu bel-prazer, sem nem assumir a continuidade normal e também sem desenvolver um universo paralelo como deveria. Nela, Logan parte em busca de vingança contra o que sobrou da Irmandade de Mutantes: Mestre Mental, Deadpool, Ômega Vermelho e Dentes de Sabre. Mas o pior de tudo é que eles são liderados por um vilanesco Colossus. Aí que a vaca foi para o brejo na minha percepção. Apesar dos desenhos belíssimos de Greg Capullo, há coisas que não ficam legais, não importa como sejam usadas. E isso me fez desgostar de todo esse especial.

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

4
A competent story. I enjoyed it. But I tend to hold Hickman to a higher standard. I don't think I would have read it if it wasn't a Hickman book. There seems to be a lot of this alternate dystopian timeline books these days, so the premise is a little tired. I'm also not a Capullo fan, but I also don't not like his work. Just never resonated with me. But...is it me or did this have an intentional Byrne accent, especially for Wolverine. I did appreciate that.

[Adam Fisher · Rating 4 out of 5]

An alternate timeline where Cap, Bucky, and Wolverine team up to handle a world post-Asteroid M crash. When the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (this time Sabretooth, Omega Red, Deadpool, Mastermind, and Colossus) takes down Cap and Bucky, and thinks they have killed Logan, Wolverine heals and takes his revenge.
Overall a really good Wolverine violence comic. Story is definitely not deep. Very good for a quick read.
Recommend.

[Jake Parker · Rating 2 out of 5]

Um. What the hell was this?

[Lysa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Man, I love Wolverine but this was just... not good. After Issue 1, it was just repetitive to the point of annoyance until the very end.

[Judini · Rating 3 out of 5]

6.4/10

“And that’s how it always ends. Revenge.
Doesn’t matter how much you lie to yourself at the start, or how noble you think what you’re doing is.
Do it long enough…Let it consume you and you will always end up in the same spot.
In a hell of your own making.” - Wolverine

Wow I read this one fast. But it is a 5 issue comic so let me slide.
In an alternative Marvel universe, millions of people from the Northern Hemisphere as we know it are destroyed as Asteroid M burns up on re-entry and more are threatened to join them as the deadliest EMP of mankind has the power to take Billions more. This leaves the few left on a strike team mission to restore power to the world. The mission fails, and everyone is brutalised including Bucky Barnes and Captain America. This leaves Wolverine alive, due to his intense healing factor, craving nothing but revenge against those who killed his friends.
I love Hickman, but I much much MUCH prefer when he is free to write larger scale stories, since his shorter books like this one seem to be limited by the world building he attempts to create, but fails to land in such a short era of time.
I love that we see Wolverine’s battle IQ, and how he is more than just a gruff with sharp claws.
The Highlight? He returned!! Greg Capullo’s art is beautiful, and it just WORKS with the grittiness and bloodshed of this R-Rated madness.
His little talk with Deadpool is great too, since we get to see how twisted Deadpool’s mind is, and how he doesn’t even completely understand where he lies on the spectrum of Good vs Evil.🙏
Definitely pick up if you just want to see Wolverine go on a hack-and-slash adventure.
Aaaand that’s about it, many of the characters suffer from rushed arcs, which I get can’t be flattened out when it’s a 5 issue alternate universe story, but the ‘Revenge’ story happens all too fast. It does a good demonstration of showing the cycle that Revenge is, but I just couldn’t care for any of the antagonists Wolverine fights in this. (Except maybe Sabretooth. I have such a weird softspot for the guy😭)
I guess i’m not supposed to think beyond the fun ‘Revenge’ plot, but I’d love to just know…WHO is still alive?! Or did they never exist since this is an alternate universe? Ah well, Hickman I still love you.

Art/Visual Clarity: 1.8/2
Characterisation: 1.3/2
Pacing/Structure: 0.9/2
Villain/Antagonist: 1.1/2
Set-Up/Conclusion: 1.4/2

[Jakub Rabyniuk · Rating 2 out of 5]

CZ//AJ
Na tohle jsem se těšil hodně. Když jsem se dozvěděl, že Greg Capullo, jehož kresbu jsem si zamiloval v Batmanovi od Snydera, má dělat mého oblíbeného mutanta, radoval jsem se jako miminko. Nadšení rostlo, když jsem zjistil, že to píše Jonathan Hickman. Pokud mám v hlavě správně uloženou časovou osu, zrovna tehdy byl Hickman na vrcholu díky své Krakoa sáze. Pak jsem ale zjistil, že to bude jen minisérie, což mě trochu zklamalo.Po přečtení mě však zklamalo ještě víc. Je to další Wolverinův postapokalyptický příběh. Celou dobu čtení jsem měl pocit, že je to sice pěkné, ale už to někdo udělal – a mnohem lépe. Samozřejmě mluvím o Old Man Logan od Marka Millara a Steva McNivena, který měl silnější příběh a větší emocionální dopad. Nechci říct, že bych se u Wolverine: Revenge nudil, ale prostě to nemá nic, co by to vyzdvihlo nad průměr.Nejvíc mi to připomíná Dark Nights: Metal – kvalitní autor napsal nějakou blbost, jen aby měl Capullo co kreslit. Od obou autorů bych čekal víc.

I was really looking forward to this one. When I found out that Greg Capullo, whose art I fell in love with in Snyder’s Batman, was going to work on my favorite mutant, I was over the moon. My excitement grew even more when I learned that Jonathan Hickman was writing it. If I’ve got my timeline right, Hickman was at the height of his fame with the Krakoa saga around that time. But then I found out it was just going to be a miniseries, which was a bit of a letdown.After reading it, though, I was even more disappointed. It’s yet another post-apocalyptic Wolverine story. The whole time I was reading, I felt like, yeah, it’s nice, but someone else already did this—and did it way better. Obviously, I’m talking about Old Man Logan by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven, which had a stronger story and a bigger emotional impact. I’m not saying I was bored with Wolverine: Revenge, but it just doesn’t have anything to lift it above average.It reminds me most of Dark Nights: Metal—a talented writer churned out some nonsense just so Capullo had something to draw. I expected more from both of them.

[Jiro Dreams of Suchy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sometimes it’s fun to just let comics be wild, no super deep exploration of mythos or canon events- just guys who’s bones are made of metal with super strength. I had FUN reading this, a thoughtful enough exploration on revenge and its payoff (it doesn’t pay off, don’t try it). Wolverine landing in purgatory and looking to be the king will be an equally fun and crazy ride.

This is a prime comic to just pick up and read. You don’t need to really know anything about the characters to have fun watching them battle and hunt.

[Aaron Harvey · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5/5 stars -

I think this is something that i expected more out of, I mean, it's Jonathan Hickman on Wolverine in an Elseworlds where he can do ANYTHING. Overall, it had its moments of greatness and it was never bad, but it could have been an all timer. The last issue, though, and specifically Wolverine's inner monologue at the end, really made it really good bordering on great.

[Dakota Morgan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Didn't know what to expect from Wolverine: Revenge, but you gotta trust Jonathan Hickman's gonna deliver something interesting. And her certainly does that here, even if the content truly matches the subtitle: in this one, Wolverine's quite simply out for revenge.

Smartly, Hickman sends us into an alternate timeline, with a Magneto incident taking out power across much of the Earth. This widespread, long-term blackout leads a few heroes, including Wolverine, to head to a mysterious remaining power source in Russia. Bad things happen there, queuing up the revenge tour for Wolverine.

The book is more than just brutal battle scenes between Wolverine and various others... but it's honestly mostly that. There's a late twist that includes another time jump, some revenge role reversal, and Wolverine becoming the king of Limbo, but it's all honestly a surprisingly straightforward tale (at least for Hickman). It's also a lot of fun, looks terrific, and is quite hard to put down once you pick it up. Another Hickman winner.

[Andres Pasten · Rating 2 out of 5]

innecesario

[Alex Talavera · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 Stars *

[Calum Barclay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great fun. Lots of action and fantastic art from Capullo. The story was a little bit of a let down in places but the overall experience was still great.

[channel alli · Rating 3 out of 5]

probably the most unsubtle and hackneyed messaging i've seen in a while but gorgeous gowns

[Emmett Spain · Rating 4 out of 5]

A rip-roaring, body shredding, blood red revenge tour of darkness for the Canucklehead, this book flies by at a furious pace and doesn’t let up until the excellent finale. It’s bloody fun and dark as hell. Enjoy.

[Alex Sarll]

Jonathan Hickman orchestrated the joint best era of the X-books, so you'd think that if he were coming back it would be for something major. Nope; this is the sort of outside-continuity Wolverine miniseries that Marvel used to pump out by the dozen*, which opens with one incredibly cool image (Logan riding a triceratops!) but goes downhill fast from there, yet another grim post-apocalyptic future in which characters can be killed off for cheap drama and good guys have gone bad for no clear reason, all of it strung together by platitudes about revenge that were old hat centuries ago. Not everything Hickman writes works for me, but I've never before read anything of his that read so little like him or so entirely pointless.

*Now, of course, they just start endless spin-off team-up series starring him instead, which then get cancelled after 5 or 10 issues, but that's entirely different.

[Matthew Murphy · Rating 2 out of 5]

What a shame this book turned into. Lackluster plot held up only by the strength of Capullo’s art and it is good. The change in colorist with the last two issues takes what makes his work shine and dulls it to the point it seems lifeless. I expected better of Hickman but man, bad coloring really does make a book worse.

[Wombo Combo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Capullo does great art, but there's a lot to be desired with regard to story. Hickman is listed as the writer, but I wonder how much of it was actually him and if he merely plotted the story while Capullo wrote everything else
With that being said, I loved the last issue. Think it was really well handled and the series did have its moments

[John Vincent · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not the best story, and from a writer I really like. Don't know why the individual issues were Red Bagged, it wasn't insanely violent, and served as an Elseworlds that felt unfleshed out. Kinda bummed.

[Ismail Ebrahim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Incredibly frustrating book. Capullo draws what’s arguably some of his best work but Hickman’s story just did nothing in terms of pulling me in and caring for any of the characters. It is bland and derivative. Ends rather abruptly too. This could have been so much more…

[Erik · Rating 2 out of 5]

I expected better from Hickman, but even with such a simple story, I expected better action sequences. Capullo's art is good but this is really far from the hard-R violent Wolverine action story it was billed as. Basically a really generic Wolverine story with a bit more blood.

[Aaron · Rating 3 out of 5]

Outstanding artwork with a super half baked story.