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Wolverine: Miniseries
Wolverine: Manifest Destiny
Logan finds himself a marked man, pursued by fighters from every dojo in town--not to mention the mystical warriors of the criminal Triad and their merciless leader...who just happens to be Logan's ex-girlfriend.
102 pages, Unknown Binding
Published February 11, 2009
About the author
Jason Aaron
2,357 books1,706 followersJason Aaron grew up in a small town in Alabama. His cousin, Gustav Hasford, who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers, on which the feature film Full Metal Jacket was based, was a large influence on Aaron. Aaron decided he wanted to write comics as a child, and though his father was skeptical when Aaron informed him of this aspiration, his mother took Aaron to drug stores, where he would purchase books from spinner racks, some of which he still owns today.
Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.
In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.
Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.
In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.
In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder.
Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.
In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.
Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.
In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.
In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder.
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June 30, 2021
This was such a great book and explores all the relations he had in the past and does a good job of expanding upon them and I really like the mystery aspect of it, how the story keeps switching back between past and present and the training and the final issue where he learns his lessons and the new status quo change that happens because it changes things for wolverine in a very big way and the art was wonderful though I wish there were more action scenes and those fights were more focuses on in the last. Nevertheless a good read.
January 19, 2026
8.25/10
September 23, 2020
Wolverine się przenosi i podczas przeprowadzki (niestety nie wiem czemu, ot tak) z pudła oprócz puszek piwa wypada mu grot włóczni. Impuls sprawia, że postanawia odwiedzić Chinatown, miejsce gdzie kiedyś sporo namieszał.
Autor nie tłumaczy jednak czemu. Sentymenty? Może, tylko głupio robi, zwłaszcza że oczekuje reakcji o miejscowych z niejakim Czarnym Smokiem na czele. Tak jakby sam prosił się o trzepanie skóry. I tak się dzieje, bo rusza na niego połowa dzielnicy. No i przywódczyni gangu okazuje się być mu kimś bliskim z przeszłości.
Potem mamy mistrza "Mijagiego" i ekspresowy kurs sztuk walki po którym Logan jest gotowy do podjęcia rewanżu. Za szybko, bez logiki, aby było efektownie, bo dzieje się tu wiele, tylko pytanie: po co? Zakończenie jest prawie identyczne jak w finale runu Brubakera przy Daredevilu... Oczekiwałem czegoś więcej, zwłaszcza że całość była sygnalizowana wcześniej.
Graficznie miejscami było fajnie, choć były takie momenty, gdzie myliłem starców o białych włosach... No i wygląd niektórych postaci. Fajnie przynajmniej, że sprawdza się to w walkach. Daje nieco naciągnięta trójkę, bo to przyjemna młócka, choć nieco bezmyślna i chaotyczna. W dodatku miałem wrażenie pośpiechu, bo i dialogi były średnie jak i fragmenty nie do końca przemyślane...
Autor nie tłumaczy jednak czemu. Sentymenty? Może, tylko głupio robi, zwłaszcza że oczekuje reakcji o miejscowych z niejakim Czarnym Smokiem na czele. Tak jakby sam prosił się o trzepanie skóry. I tak się dzieje, bo rusza na niego połowa dzielnicy. No i przywódczyni gangu okazuje się być mu kimś bliskim z przeszłości.
Potem mamy mistrza "Mijagiego" i ekspresowy kurs sztuk walki po którym Logan jest gotowy do podjęcia rewanżu. Za szybko, bez logiki, aby było efektownie, bo dzieje się tu wiele, tylko pytanie: po co? Zakończenie jest prawie identyczne jak w finale runu Brubakera przy Daredevilu... Oczekiwałem czegoś więcej, zwłaszcza że całość była sygnalizowana wcześniej.
Graficznie miejscami było fajnie, choć były takie momenty, gdzie myliłem starców o białych włosach... No i wygląd niektórych postaci. Fajnie przynajmniej, że sprawdza się to w walkach. Daje nieco naciągnięta trójkę, bo to przyjemna młócka, choć nieco bezmyślna i chaotyczna. W dodatku miałem wrażenie pośpiechu, bo i dialogi były średnie jak i fragmenty nie do końca przemyślane...
January 7, 2024
Wolverine ends up in Chinatown to right a wrong from 50 years earlier. He ends up fighting the criminal tong that is controlling Chinatown, including its superpowered enforcers.
I thought this was a good story with good art, but the ending did leave me a little confused as I'm not sure if it was ever followed up on later.
This is pretty much classic Wolverine, so you probably know what to expect.
I thought this was a good story with good art, but the ending did leave me a little confused as I'm not sure if it was ever followed up on later.
This is pretty much classic Wolverine, so you probably know what to expect.
July 21, 2018
A perfectly serviceable arc, which has some delightful high points, and some groan-inducing lows to march them. Aaron is a good storyteller, and it shows, but the pencils are rough and sloppy throughout. The conclusion doesn't feel earned and hurries to its conclusion when it feels the last few panels approaching.
April 6, 2020
Surprisingly good. I'm not a huge Wolverine fan, but this definitely plays to his strengths. The kung fu wackiness of it all is just fun.
February 13, 2022
Olvídalo, Marge. Esto es el barrio chino.
August 8, 2022
Generic wolverine story
December 24, 2024
Great run
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