Wolverine #11

Wolverine (2020) (Single Issues)

by Benjamin Percy, Adam Kubert (Cover Art), Scot Eaton (Artist)

SNIKTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE! WOLVERINE takes the fight to the vampire nation in a quest to stop DRACULA’s plot to co-opt his mutant healing factor! But what sacrifices and moral compromises must be made before humans and mutants see the dawn?

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

25 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 14, 2021

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

[Tiag⊗ the Mutant · Rating 2 out of 5]

Vampires are boring, there's just no way around it.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. The vampires are still trying to get Wolverine for his blood. Pretty good issue just too short.

[Scratch · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have nothing to say. Just one more issue in the whole, "Wolverine versus Vampires" storyline we are being force-fed for a while. Take it for what it is.

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

By far and away the weakest issue of the new Wolverine run. I'm not necessarily against the Vampire storyline but, firstly, why split it out with the other story? Why not have one arc and the next? Firstly, it's confusing and secondly how the bloody hell is Logan is Madripoor with Cable one moment and in France the next? It makes no sense.

This issue itself, well firstly nothing really happens. It ticks the story on spending a whole issues moving Omega to Ukraine (let's not talk about how he can plant a seed in a crate, in a random plane and know the exact time it will be then be flying over Ukraine so he can burst out to jump out the plane, I mean really?) and whilst Logan sees Louise again it's just a short conversation. Though I have to say on Louise that's potentially an interesting twist, is she legit or a deep plant? I'm hoping legit as I like what's happening with them but time will tell I guess.

I would have went two stars but the art, as ever, was great and the snippets we get of Logan hunting early issue were great.

So yeah, nothing happened and we won't see this arc again for probably 2 month as it will probably jump again in the next issue. There's no need to get Wolverine everywhere at once, this run would benefit from a tighter narrative focus but it's too late for that now it seems.

[Tanabrus · Rating 2 out of 5]

Prosegue, a velocità pachidermica, la storia dei vampiri. E la genialata di alternare gli archi narrativi non aiuta minimamente, eh.

In questo numero pirotecnico scopriamo che Louise è ora un riluttante vampiro, dopo il tradimento del suo capo (ma lei combatte l'infezione con trasfusioni di acqua santa e aglio. Ok...), e che sia Bestia che Dracula hanno la stessa idea.
Dracula vuole attirare in trappola Wolverine usando come esca la Russia, Bestia vorrebbe "modificare" il sangue di Logan e darlo in dono ai vampiri per avvelenarli quando lo useranno.
Ah, Omega Red piagnucola perché tutti lo trattano male a Krakoa e lo vedono come un mostro. Senza parole.

L'unica parte interessante è il progetto "simil Krakoa" di Dracula per i vampiri, che alla fine come Nazione Vampira richiama un'infinità di manga vampireschi degli ultimi decenni. E che sia quanto di meglio offre questo numero la dice lunga, eh.

[Ian Sharman · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has been consistently gorgeous for a while now, first with art by the superlative Vik Bogdanovic and then by the legendary Adam Kubert, who provides the jaw dropping cover for this issue. However, Scott Eaton's internal art is just...okay. And after a veritable smorgasbord of outstanding art, okay is a little disappointing.

This issue continues the ongoing vampire/Omega Red story arc, that's been repeatedly interrupted by crossovers and anniversary shenanigans...so you'd be forgiven for being a little lost. It also pretty heavily relies on you reading Percy's other X-book, X-Force...which I am...but if you're just reading Wolverine you'd definitely be forgiven for thinking that you're missing something.

It's definitely not a bad comic be any means, it's just...well, good...but when a book's been consistently outstanding, good doesn't quite feel good enough,

[heidi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was already invested in the Vampire Nation storyline from before so the fact that Percy decided to pick it up is great! It seems like Beast and Sage being involved in this is the only thing lately that's keeping X-Force characters interesting anyhow. And now Dracul is gonna play realpolitik with the Quiet Council, using Omega Red as a pawn and Russia as his Trojan horse? I'm looking forward to finding out what his next move will actually be.

On the artwork: Eaton's style is quite similar to Bogdanovic's which pleases me greatly. Although I don't know if any artist would be happy to hear a comment like that… but I do mean it as a compliment.

[Emily · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was boring. I understand that stories need exposition to get to the next part of the story but there isn't much here. Omega Red goes to see Dracul in Chernobyl Wolverine speaks about killing vampires but it's not on page. That isn't the part that should have been in text because all that's left is watching Wolverine and Omega Red travel. And then there's Louise who hasn't been in the story in any significant way so there isn't any emotional connection to the reader so her being turned means next to nothing.

[Roman Colombo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Remember X-Men: Curse of the Mutants? A fun Mutants vs Vampire event. Largely forgettable. Now, this? This makes Curse of the Mutants look like the Vampire Diaries.

Also, when this is all said and done, Omega Red needs to be part of the Hellions, or part of X-Force.

[Eric Hultgren · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this storyline and the way it intersects with what is happening in the larger mutant universe. Plus I am a sucker for Omega Red

[Jason · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Geoff · Rating 4 out of 5]

This whole vampire thing is so funky. But, you know, it's Wolverine. He's seen some shit. So, cool. Let's roll with this.