The next chapter of Wolverine's life begins now, but it looks like it's going to be an extremely short and painful chapter! Stranded in Japan, Wolverine confronts his future...and it ain't a bright one. As Logan, Iron Fist and Shang-Chi take on an army of deadly ninja, Logan comes clean to his old friends...and Sabretooth marks Wolverine's new love Pinch for death! It's all led up to this, as Wolverine enters his most dire hour...and possibly his final battle! It's the beginning of the end for Wolverine! Three Months to Die - the title says it all!
Paul Cornell is a British writer of science fiction and fantasy prose, comics and television. He's been Hugo Award-nominated for all three media, and has won the BSFA Award for his short fiction, and the Eagle Award for his comics. He's the writer of Saucer Country for Vertigo, Demon Knights for DC, and has written for the Doctor Who TV series. His new urban fantasy novel is London Falling, out from Tor on December 6th.
This volume just didn't do it for me either. The plot just don't seem very cohesive to me. In this one we see Wolverine having some type of metaphysical meeting with Death. Then there's a plot where Sabretooth has acquired something like a cosmic cube with which he plans to reshape the universe to his liking. Wolverine's strange actions are finally explained too.
Both this volume and the previous volume had some weird cameos that seemed to be more just to throw them in rather than truly an integral part of the story. This one did have a story from the Wolverine Annual that was possibly the best story in the book, dealing with Wolverine and Jubilee on a camping trip where they meet up with Wolverine's old wolf pack and some soldiers with PTSD.
The art is okay, but not enough to make the volume more tolerable.
What a non-event this whole Three Months To Die thing turned out to be. A complete and utter waste of time. I mean, if you read my reviews of the Wolverine collections leading up to this, you'll see it never really felt like much was going on, but I thought at least they might pour some thought into the dismount. Turns out the dismount was more of a faceplant.
After all the buildup, the issue covers where Wolverine's claws are shattering, the ominous "WOLVERINE DIES AT THE END" promotions, the removal of his healing factor, the thorough development of a final Sabretooth vs. Wolverine showdown... it just ends. Nothing conclusive happens. I guess this is technically a spoiler, but It's so utterly underwhelming that it made me angry.
Additionally, the final issue in this lame saga was promoted as a "giant-sized finale" back when it was in single-issue form. That's not even true. There's a standard-length finale story, then two bonus stories that are nothing more than unbelievably boring filler. This whole thing is so marketed and inorganic, it feels like it was written by Marvel's ad department.
Don't bother with this. Don't bother with any of the buildup to it. And, I assume, don't bother with Death of Wolverine. It's all just a big, idiotic stunt to sell issues, with no actual planning or execution. Truly one of the worst Marvel events I've ever read.
Games of Deceit & Death (8-9). Most of this whole wolverine-is-dying arc has been melodrama focused more on marketing the books than the actual story. This is the first arc that actually feels like it goes to the heart of the issue: Cornell does a good job of both having Wolverine confront death and continuing the Sabertooth story while he does [7+/10].
The Last Wolverine Story (10-12). Cornell finally closes off his Sabertooth story, but it's a little disappointing. Sure, Wolverine has some nice character moments as he comes to terms with being vulnerable ... but it feels like a big waste since we all know this is just treading water. Then the rest of the story is a big long fight with some fighting on the side [5/10].
The Shorts that end #12 are actually quite good, reminding us that Cornell is a great author when given his opportunity to shine. I particularly liked his story about the bar, Guernicus. Sadly, like so much in this run, it feels like something neat that we're never going to see again. [8/10]
Overall, I'm not sure what went wrong with Cornell's run, but it wasn't Wolverine's finest hour. He certainly didn't get a chance to build good continuity, having his run split down the middle between two volumes. He also didn't get to tell the end-point of his story, thanks to some weird politics at Marvel. However, I also think he was telling stories that didn't go to Wolverine's strengths, between the weird-science of the nanovirus of V1 and Wolverine's mopiness and out of characterness here. Still, this volume was stronger than the one that came before it, and it was good to see things brought to an end for the run.
Wolf & Cub (Annual). I wasn't thrilled to find that the annual that finished things off was by another author, but it turned out to be good — a nice coda for Logan and Jubilee before the end, though I'm not entirely certain of what I think about the moral message in the final pages, which tries to turn sexism on its head, but results in a borderline sexist message. Until then, it was good then [7/10].
Żeby nie było. Nie jest to wcale dużo bardziej wyszukana pozycja, jak tom pierwszy, ale tutaj przynajmniej nie zasypiałem, co nie znaczy że jest dobrze. W ogóle uwielbiam kiedy tytuły mnie tak zaskakują, bo wolałbym nie wiedzieć, że Rosomak ma umrzeć i być wziętym z "zaskoczenia". Omawiany tytuł to takie preludium do eventu Death of Wolverine, gdzie (uwaga spoiler) dzieje się to co zapisano w nazwie...
Postacie z Marvela giną, powstają, znów giną i znów powstają. Nie jest to żadne "perma death", więc mimo że lubię Logana to nie mam to tego takich odczuć, które spowodowały by szybsze bicie serca, itp. Liczyłem za to na jakieś fajne rozliczenie. Bohater wie, że za rogiem czai się Kostucha i musi temu stawić czoła. Swoim lękom, przeszłości i kupie dupków, które chcą go wykończyć. Cieszę się, że z GRUBSZA coś takiego tu dostajemy.
Bo ktoś kto do tej pory miał czynnik regeneracyjny, który potrafił odratować go w sytuacji, w której każdy inny heros wyzionął by kilka razy duch, musi teraz uważać co robi. Ma całą gromadę wrogów i wreszcie zdaje sobie sprawę ze swojej śmiertelności. I przynajmniej znajdujemy tu uzasadnienie dla tego tandetnego tatuażu...
Logan ląduje w Azji, gdzie w towarzystwie Shang-Chi i Iron Fista udaje się do pewnej świątyni, gdzie ludzie nie umierają, bo sama Śmierć zdaje się tu zawsze odbywać urlop. Niby to takie metaforyczne spotkanie w głowie (powinno być takowe), ale było tutaj zbyt wiele przesłanek, aby nie domniemywać, że całe to zajście było realne. Wolverine staje naprzeciw konsekwencjom swoich wyborów, spotykając między innymi swoją pierwszą miłość, którą jednocześnie zabił, jak pamiętamy. Całą sprawę podsyca obecność zabójców z Dłoni, których nasłał Szablozębny.
Logan już raz ostatni dostał lanie od swojego arcywroga, więc w finale tej serii przyjdzie mu oczywiście stanąć do walki z Sabretooth'em, ocalić swoją kobietę, itd. Nie jest to absolutnie nic odkrywczego, choć pokazuje Loganowi jak wiele osób o niego dba i że ma całą masę przyjaciół. Ciekawie rysuje się jednak to co stoi za jego wrogiem. Mutant bowiem posiadł pewną kulę/kostkę, którą może użyć do ukształtowania rzeczywistości tak jak sobie życzy. Byłby to świat, gdzie nie było by broni, a liczyła by się siła mięśni i pierwotne instynkty. Zalatuje to trochę epoką kamienia łupanego, ale... Pomysł był.
Finał jest taki jakiego oczekiwałem. Przewidywalny, ale i dający jakąś dozę satysfakcji, na bazie tego, iż myślałem sobie: "Dajcie mu wszyscy święty spokój". Najzabawniejsze jest to co najlepsze zostawiono tu na koniec. Mowa tu o pewnym barze i jego historii. Gdzie herosi mogą normalnie spotkać się na piwku po całym tym bohaterzeniu. Świetny motyw. Wyprawę do lasu z Jubilee i jej przybranym dzieckiem też uznaję za plus.
Rysunki nie odstają tu od światowych standardów. Szczypta mangi, łyżeczka cartoon, deko obróbki na komputerze i powstaje recepta na powszechny wygląd kreski, która niczym się nie wyróżnia,przez co szybko odchodzi w zapomnienie. Choć na uwagę zasługują plansze ze wspomnianego wypadu do lasu.
Logan doświadcza swojego katharsis, a ja cieszę się, że ci władający Marvelem dadzą mu na moment odetchnąć. Przede mną jeszcze tylko Soule i kwestia tego, czy zakończą ten wątek oryginalnie. Dla mnie bardziej 2.5/5.
Another snoozer on the way to Death of Wolverine. Cornell has drawn a mediocre two-or-three issue Wolverine storyarc into twelve issues. This particular battle with (yawn) Sabretooth and Mystique involves Sabretooth wanting a cosmic sphere (not the cube, a sphere!) that will give him godlike powers and allow him to kill Wolverine blah blah blah. There's also a slew of new characters that there's no point bothering to learn about since we know this book is leading up to Wolverine's death, so they're all either cannon-fodder or canon-fodder. None of them are going to important to the wider Marvel universe.
There's a callback to the Thor-fight from the previous volume. More inter-X-Men melodrama built up purely so there can be some extra pathos when Wolverine dies. It's all very disappointingly formulaic and not at all interesting.
Wolverine's final showdown with Sabertooth could prove to be his last....
After the events of the last volume, it seems that Wolverine has to come to terms with the fact that he really can die now. His fear of death has made him hesitate more than once, and he's becoming a liability to the team. But he still has to save his new romantic interest and her daughter from Sabertooth somehow. Oh and Sabertooth has a magical weapons of some kind that he can use to reshape reality.... yeah, comics.
Paul Cornell starts off the volume with Wolverine having a chat with Death... yes, the actual character of Death who is the on and off again lover of Thanos, that Death. This was... interesting but kind of psychedelic and metaphysical for a wolverine book. Afterwards, Wolverine has to confront Sabertooth again, but this time he will take all the help he can get. And ultimately, that's kind of the message of the book, you cant go at it alone, you need help now. There is also a cool annual story about Wolverine and Jubilee camping in the woods, and you know things go wrong.
Overall, the book is a bit out there and the writing from Cornell is very much of the "old school" ilk so.... yeah I'd probably recommend this one to completionists only.
Puntaje: 4 estrellas. Mucho mejor que el volúmen anterior! Lo que más me gustó fueron las apariciones especiales de personajes ajenos a los X-Men como Iron Fist y Shang Chi.
También la reflexion de wolverine, al saber que ha perdido su poder curativo y que ahora puede morir como cualquier otro personaje. Esa mortalidad le ha afectado mucho y en este volúmen vemos como Logan intenta asumir su nueva condición.
This is just ... not very good at all. The art is all over the place, the tone feels uneven to this reader, and the big battle was a snoozefest that I predicted the outcome of 5 issues before it happened. Not a fan.
Not a bad continuation of book 1 of “Three Months to Die” - a bit more depth to things and a backup story with some nice ideas/themes woven through it.
More of the same: Wolverine sans healing factor, Sabretooth, ninja. This is starting to feel like a cartoon, where the hero fights the same villain every week.
What a disappointing book. I really wanted this book to be good, but it's just not that interesting and the art isn't great.
Spoiler alert...
Wolverine doesn't die. He faces Sabretooth, beats him without armor with 3 punches. Almost dies and Lady Frankenstein heals him. The girl is safe, the girlfriend is safe, the semi-bad guy changes his tattoo from Fight Evil with Evil to Fight Evil.
To top it off, issue 12 has two additional stories that have absolutely nothing to do with Wolverine and the Annual was a ridiculous side story about more wolves in the woods, but this time with Jubilee and her baby. Oh goodie. Yawn.
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-/+I like the idea of sabertooths plan and that could have been a cool plot point that unfortunately didn't go anywhere -Wolverine melodramatic is usually awesome, for some reason he kept rehashing the same death and life points, more tiresome than engaging and heartfelt. -a poorly executed plan -tropey end -too easy tying some knots in interactions from the previous issues -didn't care enough about the side characters so there was no weight to when tough decisions started happening for Logan and his crew.
You know, I thought this was pretty good up until the end where Wolverine wins despite being significantly less powerful than Sabretooth. And without too much cleverness. It's not clear why Sabretooth doesn't simply heal from Wolverine's attack like always.
But I thought the stuff about Wolverine meeting death, while silly and overwrought, made sense and the stuff about Wolverine getting his buddies together was fine. The annual was probably a little too crazy.
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La historia principal me parecía más entretenida que en el tomo anterior, pero fue más de lo mismo. Con el annual que viene como extra al final pensé que la cosa repuntaba, pero el viejo y querido Logan la caga con una reflexión sexista que prácticamente contradice todo lo que vemos en la historia... Como la muerte ya la tengo leída desde hace rato, ahora habrá que ver si en algún momento me animo a "Wolverines" o si nos dejamos descansar en paz con el patilludo por un rato.
A culmination of Paul Cornell's run on Wolverine is his best work on the character. Unfortunately that isn't saying much, as the previous work has been dull and majorly flawed. The flaws remain (supporting characters not really worth caring about), but it rounds things off well as solid character work is delivered to Wolverine (with thanks to Death). Just a shame the run couldn't have been better up to now, but it's always worth seeing Thor fight a Nazi version of himself.
I didn't like this as much as volume one. There was not a lot of development, the story basically resolved itself. I also couldn't follow Creed and Logan's final conversation.
Almost 1/2 of this volume is unrelated shorts; the only one I really enjoyed was the one with Jubilee, but even then I felt like it was missing closure from the other couple. Why give them this huge backstory if it was just going to get ignored?
It was okay. I was mostly interested in reading 'Three Months To Die' because I was curious about 'The Death Of Wolverine' but having finished the two pre-death adventures I feel like I could have probably skipped them. Not a lot really happens, it's just a continuation of the first story which didn't really hold my interest. Hopefully 'Death of Wolverine' is better.
Tak se nám Wolverine naučil, že s kamarády jde všecko líp. Meh Cornell se zlepšil, dobře se to četlo, ale pořád mi tu spoustu věcí nesedí a jeho pojetí Logana mi nesedí. Závěrečnej boj byl navíc děsnej.
Felt like a conclusion, but the graphic novels that address the necessary finale weren't out yet. I have the individual comics, but must wait until next summer to read them. I ration out my comic reading.