Wolverine #5

Wolverine (2020) (Single Issues)

by Benjamin Percy, Adam Kubert (Cover Art), Viktor Bogdanovic (Artist)

BLOOD CLOCKS! In the snowbound darkness of the north, Wolverine is the prisoner of Dracula. By forming an unlikely alliance, Logan fights back. Stakes, claws, tricked-out snowmobiles and wintry mayhem await you.

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

27 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 2, 2020

About the author

Benjamin Percy is the author of seven novels -- most recently The Sky Vault (William Morrow) -- three short fiction collections, and a book of essays, Thrill Me, that is widely taught in creative writing classrooms. He writes Wolverine, X-Force, and Ghost Rider for Marvel Comics. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in Esquire (where he is a contributing editor), GQ, Time, Men's Journal, Outside, the Wall Street Journal, Tin House, and the Paris Review. His honors include an NEA fellowship, the Whiting Writer's Award, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, the iHeart Radio Award for Best Scripted Podcast, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics.

Reviews

[Tanabrus · Rating 3 out of 5]

La trama di Dracula procede lentamente, visto che ora tornerà probabilmente in pausa con l'arrivo di X of Sword.

Scopriamo che Logan gli serviva da Tavernello, ma più che come fonte di sangue da portarsi dietro è un generatore di potere per i vampiri: col suo sangue possono alimentare dei dispositivi che gli permettono di camminare alla luce del sole.
Abbastanza assurda come cosa, ma tant'è.

Carini i vampiri teenager e ribelli, peccato durino poco.
Ma con tutto questo Dracula e Nazione dei Vampiri, paesini vampirizzati e vampiri scatenati nelle città... immagino comparirà anche Blade, o si resta solo con Louise?

[Anthony · Rating 3 out of 5]

Disappointing issue, it felt very rushed and the teenage vampires were kinda lame.

[James DeSantis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Vampires...never that fun. But this wasn't bad just felt super rushed because of sword of x event coming.

[Dimitris Papastergiou · Rating 4 out of 5]

This issue SUCKED...that it wasn't 500 pages longer!

[heidi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh man I feel sorry for Wolverine. Having his blood harvested like that… I feel seriau / ngilu just thinking about it ugh.

Very interested in where the story is going. A solid build-up.

[Etienne · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one had a lot of potential and the first few pages were great and dark, and than you remember you read Marvel and it become «softer» add some unnecessary humor and, not ruined it, but downgrade its overall quality a lot. Could have been so much more...

[Tym · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story is rushed and kind of a mess but the art is good

[RG · Rating 3 out of 5]

This series started off down a great path. It's kinda changed completely. Has dark elements then gets the Marvel safe story. Its still ok

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. Decent issue. Read this pretty quick as not too much happens. Wolverine breaks free and goes on the hunt for revenge. But the last page tho? Where did he go?

[Chris Wakefield · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love the art and colours, and the story is entertaining.

[Scratch · Rating 2 out of 5]

One of the bloodier comics I have read in a while, but without much point. This was clearly just a filler issue setting the stage for more action later on. Some vampires killed and/or got killed. Wolverine popped his claws a couple of times.

Nothing deeper here.

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vampires do vampire things. Wolverine does Wolverine things. Might end up with a cute teenage-girl side-kick.
Then a rainbow beams him up. Huh? I feel like I should know who that was but all I can think is "leprechaun?".

[J. Milius · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cool art.

[Ian Sharman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ok, I'm biased, I've worked with Vik Bogdanovic before, but, hey, not everyone I've ever worked with is amazingly talented...but Vik was born to draw Wolverine...and vampires. Vik's certainly got form when it comes to drawing the undead, after all (and if you can track down a copy of Chris Smith and the Nazi Zombies from Hell, which is currently available from Dapper Chimp Press on ComiXology, then you really should).

But, yeah, Omega Red's working for Dracula, because of course he is, and he's captured Logan and given him to Dracula so that he can harvest his blood. Apparently Logan's blood super charges vampires and let's them walk in sunlight.

There's not a lot more to this than that. Logan gets free and teams up with some young vampires to stop Dracula. And then gets abducted by an editorially mandated crossover before he can actually confront the head vamp himself. I'm sure this plotline will get picked back up after X of Swords.

But, yeah, I'm biased but I loved this. Just add it to my growing list of favourite X-books, I guess.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great issue just a bit vexed this will now most likely be ignored during the Swords event...

That aside the issue was great, started dark, got a bit darker and ended with a Wolverine dust up which is top notch.

I would only have given it a 4 but I went 5 as wolverines musings on how an unlimited life may potentially effect the mutants was a fascinating one and whilst a comic run never really last long enough for something like that to come to fruition it was a really interesting thought path and to see what Logan has had to deal with in the past.

Good stuff, sadly probably not to be revisited until late October or November.

[Roman Colombo · Rating 5 out of 5]

That opening was disturbing.

[Jesse · Rating 3 out of 5]

More vampire stuff, but not nearly as interesting as the "Catacombs" story. We'll see how it goes.