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Wolverine (1988) #119-122
Wolverine: Not Dead Yet
Wolverine's past is full of nasty characters, but few as fiendish as the White Ghost, a murderous mercenary whom Logan thought he'd left for dead during his spy years! But this Ghost won't be laid to rest until he's run Wolverine through a gauntlet of Adamantium weapons, killing the mutant maverick with the very metal that's saved his life so many times! Unwilling to risk his friends, Wolverine stands alone in a story of intrigue, romance and devastation, culminating in a clash between two killers! Collects Wolverine #119-122.
96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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About the author
Warren Ellis
1,972 books5,772 followersWarren Ellis is the award-winning writer of graphic novels like TRANSMETROPOLITAN, FELL, MINISTRY OF SPACE and PLANETARY, and the author of the NYT-bestselling GUN MACHINE and the “underground classic” novel CROOKED LITTLE VEIN, as well as the digital short-story single DEAD PIG COLLECTOR. His newest book is the novella NORMAL, from FSG Originals, listed as one of Amazon’s Best 100 Books Of 2016.
The movie RED is based on his graphic novel of the same name, its sequel having been released in summer 2013. IRON MAN 3 is based on his Marvel Comics graphic novel IRON MAN: EXTREMIS. He is currently developing his graphic novel sequence with Jason Howard, TREES, for television, in concert with HardySonBaker and NBCU, and continues to work as a screenwriter and producer in film and television, represented by Angela Cheng Caplan and Cheng Caplan Company. He is the creator, writer and co-producer of the Netflix series CASTLEVANIA, recently renewed for its third season, and of the recently-announced Netflix series HEAVEN’S FOREST.
He’s written extensively for VICE, WIRED UK and Reuters on technological and cultural matters, and given keynote speeches and lectures at events like dConstruct, ThingsCon, Improving Reality, SxSW, How The Light Gets In, Haunted Machines and Cognitive Cities.
Warren Ellis has recently developed and curated the revival of the Wildstorm creative library for DC Entertainment with the series THE WILD STORM, and is currently working on the serialising of new graphic novel works TREES: THREE FATES and INJECTION at Image Comics, and the serialised graphic novel THE BATMAN’S GRAVE for DC Comics, while working as a Consulting Producer on another television series.
A documentary about his work, CAPTURED GHOSTS, was released in 2012.
Recognitions include the NUIG Literary and Debating Society’s President’s Medal for service to freedom of speech, the EAGLE AWARDS Roll Of Honour for lifetime achievement in the field of comics & graphic novels, the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire 2010, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History and the International Horror Guild Award for illustrated narrative. He is a Patron of Humanists UK. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex.
Warren Ellis lives outside London, on the south-east coast of England, in case he needs to make a quick getaway.
The movie RED is based on his graphic novel of the same name, its sequel having been released in summer 2013. IRON MAN 3 is based on his Marvel Comics graphic novel IRON MAN: EXTREMIS. He is currently developing his graphic novel sequence with Jason Howard, TREES, for television, in concert with HardySonBaker and NBCU, and continues to work as a screenwriter and producer in film and television, represented by Angela Cheng Caplan and Cheng Caplan Company. He is the creator, writer and co-producer of the Netflix series CASTLEVANIA, recently renewed for its third season, and of the recently-announced Netflix series HEAVEN’S FOREST.
He’s written extensively for VICE, WIRED UK and Reuters on technological and cultural matters, and given keynote speeches and lectures at events like dConstruct, ThingsCon, Improving Reality, SxSW, How The Light Gets In, Haunted Machines and Cognitive Cities.
Warren Ellis has recently developed and curated the revival of the Wildstorm creative library for DC Entertainment with the series THE WILD STORM, and is currently working on the serialising of new graphic novel works TREES: THREE FATES and INJECTION at Image Comics, and the serialised graphic novel THE BATMAN’S GRAVE for DC Comics, while working as a Consulting Producer on another television series.
A documentary about his work, CAPTURED GHOSTS, was released in 2012.
Recognitions include the NUIG Literary and Debating Society’s President’s Medal for service to freedom of speech, the EAGLE AWARDS Roll Of Honour for lifetime achievement in the field of comics & graphic novels, the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire 2010, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History and the International Horror Guild Award for illustrated narrative. He is a Patron of Humanists UK. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex.
Warren Ellis lives outside London, on the south-east coast of England, in case he needs to make a quick getaway.
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June 26, 2015
Three and a half stars.
Another library visit, another Premier Edition from Marvel. Is Marvel trying to gild a lily here, or is this more pabulum from “The House of Ideas”?
It’s Wolverine in a mini-run and it’s penned by Warren Ellis. The Canucklehead is now only packin’ bone claws after getting an adamantium-ectomy courtesy of Magneto. This moves Wolverine closer to his animal nature and he gets crabby easier and he’s more susceptible to his berzerker fits.
Which brings us to Wolverine’s motto about killing:
“Don’t kill more than you can eat.”
Not every killer/assassin shares the same philosophy. Wolverine’s sitting around a Chinese bar with a bad guy named, the White Ghost. They’re debating the nature of the kill. Insert a betrayal and a figurative sucker punch and one thing leads to another and Mr. White Ghost is killed.
Fast forward into the future and it seems that someone is out to get Wolverine…and they’re testing his maxim about only eating (read: killing) what you take away from the buffet table of life.
So we have Wolverine trying to hold it together in his search for his antagonist. His inner Jiminy Cricket is like: “Don’t go all berzerker! Don’t kill! “Be sort of nice! You can do it!”
It’s just like Arnold in Terminator 2 with the knee shots. “Hasta la vista, Bub.”
“It’s only a flesh wound, Bub.”
“You don’t really need that arm do you, Bub?”
"You'll only be eating solids through a tube for four months, Bub!"
“It’s only your spleen, Bub.”
Bottom line: A rather short, spare (no X-men or Avengers or space aliens or Sabretooth…) story, briskly paced. If you like Wolverine, I’d say give it a shot.
Another library visit, another Premier Edition from Marvel. Is Marvel trying to gild a lily here, or is this more pabulum from “The House of Ideas”?
It’s Wolverine in a mini-run and it’s penned by Warren Ellis. The Canucklehead is now only packin’ bone claws after getting an adamantium-ectomy courtesy of Magneto. This moves Wolverine closer to his animal nature and he gets crabby easier and he’s more susceptible to his berzerker fits.
Which brings us to Wolverine’s motto about killing:
“Don’t kill more than you can eat.”
Not every killer/assassin shares the same philosophy. Wolverine’s sitting around a Chinese bar with a bad guy named, the White Ghost. They’re debating the nature of the kill. Insert a betrayal and a figurative sucker punch and one thing leads to another and Mr. White Ghost is killed.
Fast forward into the future and it seems that someone is out to get Wolverine…and they’re testing his maxim about only eating (read: killing) what you take away from the buffet table of life.
So we have Wolverine trying to hold it together in his search for his antagonist. His inner Jiminy Cricket is like: “Don’t go all berzerker! Don’t kill! “Be sort of nice! You can do it!”
It’s just like Arnold in Terminator 2 with the knee shots. “Hasta la vista, Bub.”
“It’s only a flesh wound, Bub.”
“You don’t really need that arm do you, Bub?”
"You'll only be eating solids through a tube for four months, Bub!"
“It’s only your spleen, Bub.”
Bottom line: A rather short, spare (no X-men or Avengers or space aliens or Sabretooth…) story, briskly paced. If you like Wolverine, I’d say give it a shot.
June 21, 2024
I've been looking for a collected edition for this storyline for years and I finally found one and right on the day I'm attending a comic convention to have my books signed by Leinil Yu. I guess it was just meant to be.
This book just hits all the spots on my mental checklist for comics; Warren Ellis story, Leinil Yu art and packaged in a nice hardcover. This belongs on any X-Men or Wolverine fan's shelf.
This book just hits all the spots on my mental checklist for comics; Warren Ellis story, Leinil Yu art and packaged in a nice hardcover. This belongs on any X-Men or Wolverine fan's shelf.
June 16, 2013
This is a late 90s collaboration between two of the comics industry’s finest - writer Warren Ellis and artist Leinil Yu - before they became great artists. As a result, “Not Dead Yet” is disappointingly dull despite the talent involved.
Back in the late 90s Wolverine went through a phase where his adamantium was removed from his body so in this book he’s bone-claws Wolverine and even though he’s wearing the classic 90s yellow outfit on the cover, he doesn’t wear it once in the book. Here he’s jacket ‘n’ jeans, bone-claws Wolverine - not a bad look but one that instantly dates him.
The story goes that years ago in Hong Kong Wolverine is hanging out with a Scottish hitman called McLeish aka the White Ghost and McLeish ends up whacking his Chinese girlfriend’s (Logan certainly has a type!) dad before Wolverine hunts him down and kills him. Or is he dead...? Nope! So it’s now years later, McLeish is hunting Wolverine down, and, middle middle middle, the two face off - guess who wins?
“Not Dead Yet” is a very underwhelming read - Logan fights a hitman (and not even a famous hitman, just some random dude you never see again!), the end. That it’s for this 4-issue miniseries. It’s fairly well written, the story flows nicely, and Yu’s artwork is decent though not of the same quality as you’d expect given his work these days. But when I put the book down, I thought “that’s it?”.
Given the amount of stuff Wolverine goes through these days, this kind of simple storyline would barely count as a subplot let alone the main event so its surprising to read a book that’s so very unambitious especially by Ellis who would go on to write some of the most out-there storylines in comics (“Planetary”) and manage to cram in so much action into a single issue (“Secret Avengers”). But, like I said, this is Ellis early in his career still learning his craft.
In the end, “Not Dead Yet” fails as a Wolverine book because it’s so forgettable.
Back in the late 90s Wolverine went through a phase where his adamantium was removed from his body so in this book he’s bone-claws Wolverine and even though he’s wearing the classic 90s yellow outfit on the cover, he doesn’t wear it once in the book. Here he’s jacket ‘n’ jeans, bone-claws Wolverine - not a bad look but one that instantly dates him.
The story goes that years ago in Hong Kong Wolverine is hanging out with a Scottish hitman called McLeish aka the White Ghost and McLeish ends up whacking his Chinese girlfriend’s (Logan certainly has a type!) dad before Wolverine hunts him down and kills him. Or is he dead...? Nope! So it’s now years later, McLeish is hunting Wolverine down, and, middle middle middle, the two face off - guess who wins?
“Not Dead Yet” is a very underwhelming read - Logan fights a hitman (and not even a famous hitman, just some random dude you never see again!), the end. That it’s for this 4-issue miniseries. It’s fairly well written, the story flows nicely, and Yu’s artwork is decent though not of the same quality as you’d expect given his work these days. But when I put the book down, I thought “that’s it?”.
Given the amount of stuff Wolverine goes through these days, this kind of simple storyline would barely count as a subplot let alone the main event so its surprising to read a book that’s so very unambitious especially by Ellis who would go on to write some of the most out-there storylines in comics (“Planetary”) and manage to cram in so much action into a single issue (“Secret Avengers”). But, like I said, this is Ellis early in his career still learning his craft.
In the end, “Not Dead Yet” fails as a Wolverine book because it’s so forgettable.
January 17, 2023
A minor Wolverine story by Warren Ellis. Kind of cool to see Ellis write Wolverine, it's exactly what you think it would be though.
An assassin that Wolverine used to have drinks with back in Singapore is back for revenge. What's with comics just shoving in new characters that have apparently been around for years into each story. I feel like this same story could have been told with existing characters, no need to just make up a bunch of new ones. It all gets set-up and wrapped up neatly.
For fans of Warren Ellis wanting to see him write Wolverine, this is worth picking up. For other people , it's just one of a million decent Marvel books.
An assassin that Wolverine used to have drinks with back in Singapore is back for revenge. What's with comics just shoving in new characters that have apparently been around for years into each story. I feel like this same story could have been told with existing characters, no need to just make up a bunch of new ones. It all gets set-up and wrapped up neatly.
For fans of Warren Ellis wanting to see him write Wolverine, this is worth picking up. For other people , it's just one of a million decent Marvel books.
February 6, 2024
A not very interesting revenge story like you’ve seen all your life already. Well done but that’s not quite enough to make it worth your time and money.
Art barely registers as the Leinil Yu I discovered later in his career and his style then is close to Filipino compatriot Whilce Portacio. Well, let’s say he’s improved a lot since he commited this book.
Art barely registers as the Leinil Yu I discovered later in his career and his style then is close to Filipino compatriot Whilce Portacio. Well, let’s say he’s improved a lot since he commited this book.
April 5, 2017
Awesome story and artwork and I dig the Wolverine stories when he is without any adamentium. He was always better as leather-tough instead of invincible.
January 16, 2025
Enjoyable
A decent but utterly predictable action noir with a mutant; enjoyable but a slight. The writing is witty but expected. Art was kinetic but not anything ground breaking in terms of style.
A decent but utterly predictable action noir with a mutant; enjoyable but a slight. The writing is witty but expected. Art was kinetic but not anything ground breaking in terms of style.
December 4, 2024
Grrr, I'm such a bad ass. Said every Wolverine comic ever.
October 17, 2025
Pretty good, little story. I think I expected a little more from a Warren Ellis Wolverine tale, but it was solid!
June 19, 2019
Não é tão legal quanto eu lembrava, mas ainda é um bom conto. E a arte do Yu era surpreendentemente boa.
August 5, 2024
"Vuoi la belva McLeish? Vuoi la morte?"
October 10, 2018
I remember when these issues came out. I loved the story back then, but this time around, it seems a little thin to me. Granted, what can you really do with a hero like Wolverine? You get to beat him up, but killing him is actually pretty impossible for story and financial reasons. Early in Ellis and Yu's career, this is a fast moving read. Great looking art and mostly for Ellis, Wolverine or Yu super fans.
April 20, 2015
A delightfully 90s-riffic Wolverine tale of blood, bullets, and vengeance with whiskey-swillin' Scots, adamantium weapons, and a whole lotta man-angst.
Oh, Warren. Sometimes, you're a pretty solid dude.
Oh, Warren. Sometimes, you're a pretty solid dude.
March 14, 2013
A well-told story with nice art, but not a lot of depth to this very decompressed story.
November 30, 2017
Wolverine is in Hong Kong and having drinks with a Scottish hitman named Mcleish. McLeish likes to brag about all the people he killed. Later Logan is out with his girlfriend Alchia and when they get back home they find Alchia's father murdered. Wolverine sees McLeish running from the scene and figures out it was him. He follows and attacks him and when there is an explosion he leaves him for dead. Logan leaves for Canada soon after, leaving Alchia.
10 years later Logan doesn't have an adamantium skeleton anymore and he's living in New York. He is attacked by multiple hitmen and when one of them mentions McLeish's name, Logan finds out that he's still alive. He finds his way to him and finds out that McLeish murdered Alchia. Rage overcomes him and he kills the hitman once and for all.
10 years later Logan doesn't have an adamantium skeleton anymore and he's living in New York. He is attacked by multiple hitmen and when one of them mentions McLeish's name, Logan finds out that he's still alive. He finds his way to him and finds out that McLeish murdered Alchia. Rage overcomes him and he kills the hitman once and for all.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 4, 2024
Ellis at the top of his form writing basically one big action scene. Essentially a fast-paced action story, with not so much of an emphasis on superheroics or Wolverine's place in the X-Men universe, so it's roughly self-contained and you only need to know that Wolverine is a badass, now and always. Normally so much action would be a cliche for comics, but there's also adventure and intrigue, and it makes for a lot of fun. Yu probably made his name bigger on other projects, though getting a Wolverine book didn't hurt. An early display of his work shows that while he's been a great artist from the start, he can always tell a story and make a busy action scene clear enough to follow without getting messy. It might be shallow but it's the kind of action that comics do best.
January 21, 2018
Book Info: This collection contains
Wolverine
issues #119-122.
ABSOLUTE RATING: {3/5 stars}
STANDARDIZED RATING: <3/5 stars>
Wolverine: Not Dead Yet is essentially a revenge story. Issue #1 chronicles some of Logan's first encounters with a hit man named McLeish ten years ago in Hong Kong. Since they first met, they would regularly meet in a bar and chat about their long and storied careers as ruthless killers. But unbeknownst to Logan, his buddy has been surveilling him for three months in order to gain intelligence on a target he had been paid by the triad to kill. This target turns out to be a famous Chinese filmmaker, and father of Ai-Chia – a young woman Logan has been dating. After killing the man, and leaving him to be found by his daughter laying in a pool of his own blood, Logan immediately suspects McLeish. He manages to catch up with the hit man, and supposedly kills both him and the triad member assigned for the payment drop-off. But after ten years, McLeish miraculously resurfaces, and blows up Logan's Manhattan apartment. But this is just one of the many steps in McLeish's plot for payback, and Logan knows it won't be easy to take out one of the most dangerous killers in the world.
Flipping through the pages of this collection and glancing at the artwork, I'm puzzled by what I see. It's incredible what modern colorists can do for a comic nowadays; the art in this book was almost unrecognizable as Leinil Yu's. Maybe Yu's penciling has improved since then as well? While I've seen this kind of thing before in older comics, rarely has it struck me as quite this pronounced.
Interspersed within each issue, Ellis includes segments of the many conversations Logan and McLeish have shared, ten years prior. During these meetings, I got a sense that McLeish's immense fascination with Logan grew the more he got to know him. But soon, this fascination begins to border on obsession, and McLeish is revealed to be a very pathatic old drunkard who seems to need Logan more than Logan needs him. For this reason, I was never too impressed with the idea of him as the major antagonist for the story. And the only reason I could think of that Logan endures his sadistic monologues so regularly is that he views McLeish as a kindred spirit, and perhaps feels as if he's the kind of company a monster such as himself deserves.
So while there seemed to have been *some* potential there, it was disappointing to find that the interaction between the two was much less profound and clever than Ellis apparently intended it to be. But I suppose it's possible that this might have been fairly revolutionary for its time. My experience with Wolverine doesn't really extend too far before 2000, so I really wouldn't know for certain. However, at this point, I found many of the themes in this book to be pretty standard for a Wolverine comic. Perhaps if I had read this when it was still new, I'd have thought more highly of it, but I doubt that would have earned it much more than a half to one star beyond the rating I'm giving it here.
Nevertheless, Ellis does manage to succeed where I find many Wolverine writers have failed. It's a rare thing to to see the character written in a way that suggests a level of combat expertise which accurately reflects his extensive training and experience. Before leaping head-first into an confrontation, Logan was much more likely to plan his moves before he made them, and demonstrated a suitable level of fighting prowess. However, it should be noted that this story was set during the period in time when Logan was still missing his adamantium skeleton. Because of this, it made sense that he'd behave more cautiously, since he was more vulnerable to fatal injury.
While I would have been the first to claim that nothing truly new could be done with Wolverine, my position changed somewhat after experiencing Jason Aaron's take on the character. Not only did he manage to capture Logan's skills (while still allowing him his adamantium skeleton), but he was able to explore a deeper level of emotional depth than Ellis does here.
Not Dead Yet is the only story I know of by Ellis that hasn't allowed him to flex his creative muscles very much at all; most of his stories are sci-fi, whereas this one is just action-based. Still, some of his good work on Global Frequency was more action/thriller-oriented than sci-fi, so I know he can operate well in either arena. But I think he might have a bias toward more "creative" ventures, so if I had to guess, his heart really wasn't very much in the telling of this story beyond cashing his paycheck. And as a result, the book suffered greatly. In summary: stick to what you know, Warren; it's just a much safer bet.
ABSOLUTE RATING: {3/5 stars}
STANDARDIZED RATING: <3/5 stars>
Wolverine: Not Dead Yet is essentially a revenge story. Issue #1 chronicles some of Logan's first encounters with a hit man named McLeish ten years ago in Hong Kong. Since they first met, they would regularly meet in a bar and chat about their long and storied careers as ruthless killers. But unbeknownst to Logan, his buddy has been surveilling him for three months in order to gain intelligence on a target he had been paid by the triad to kill. This target turns out to be a famous Chinese filmmaker, and father of Ai-Chia – a young woman Logan has been dating. After killing the man, and leaving him to be found by his daughter laying in a pool of his own blood, Logan immediately suspects McLeish. He manages to catch up with the hit man, and supposedly kills both him and the triad member assigned for the payment drop-off. But after ten years, McLeish miraculously resurfaces, and blows up Logan's Manhattan apartment. But this is just one of the many steps in McLeish's plot for payback, and Logan knows it won't be easy to take out one of the most dangerous killers in the world.
Flipping through the pages of this collection and glancing at the artwork, I'm puzzled by what I see. It's incredible what modern colorists can do for a comic nowadays; the art in this book was almost unrecognizable as Leinil Yu's. Maybe Yu's penciling has improved since then as well? While I've seen this kind of thing before in older comics, rarely has it struck me as quite this pronounced.
Interspersed within each issue, Ellis includes segments of the many conversations Logan and McLeish have shared, ten years prior. During these meetings, I got a sense that McLeish's immense fascination with Logan grew the more he got to know him. But soon, this fascination begins to border on obsession, and McLeish is revealed to be a very pathatic old drunkard who seems to need Logan more than Logan needs him. For this reason, I was never too impressed with the idea of him as the major antagonist for the story. And the only reason I could think of that Logan endures his sadistic monologues so regularly is that he views McLeish as a kindred spirit, and perhaps feels as if he's the kind of company a monster such as himself deserves.
So while there seemed to have been *some* potential there, it was disappointing to find that the interaction between the two was much less profound and clever than Ellis apparently intended it to be. But I suppose it's possible that this might have been fairly revolutionary for its time. My experience with Wolverine doesn't really extend too far before 2000, so I really wouldn't know for certain. However, at this point, I found many of the themes in this book to be pretty standard for a Wolverine comic. Perhaps if I had read this when it was still new, I'd have thought more highly of it, but I doubt that would have earned it much more than a half to one star beyond the rating I'm giving it here.
Nevertheless, Ellis does manage to succeed where I find many Wolverine writers have failed. It's a rare thing to to see the character written in a way that suggests a level of combat expertise which accurately reflects his extensive training and experience. Before leaping head-first into an confrontation, Logan was much more likely to plan his moves before he made them, and demonstrated a suitable level of fighting prowess. However, it should be noted that this story was set during the period in time when Logan was still missing his adamantium skeleton. Because of this, it made sense that he'd behave more cautiously, since he was more vulnerable to fatal injury.
While I would have been the first to claim that nothing truly new could be done with Wolverine, my position changed somewhat after experiencing Jason Aaron's take on the character. Not only did he manage to capture Logan's skills (while still allowing him his adamantium skeleton), but he was able to explore a deeper level of emotional depth than Ellis does here.
Not Dead Yet is the only story I know of by Ellis that hasn't allowed him to flex his creative muscles very much at all; most of his stories are sci-fi, whereas this one is just action-based. Still, some of his good work on Global Frequency was more action/thriller-oriented than sci-fi, so I know he can operate well in either arena. But I think he might have a bias toward more "creative" ventures, so if I had to guess, his heart really wasn't very much in the telling of this story beyond cashing his paycheck. And as a result, the book suffered greatly. In summary: stick to what you know, Warren; it's just a much safer bet.
October 29, 2019
With his move to television and film I was happy to stumble upon some of Ellis' work that I had not read (as I've read most, but not all of his work). Unfortunately this comes off as an hour long episode of a television action show.
Is that bad? No not really, there is a market for that, and sometimes I'm part of that market. When I read this I came away meh.
The pacing is fine, the character motivations are worked out well enough. But, I'm just too burned out on Wolverine to be interested in the character. The little bit of character work done, is done well. I would have liked more though.
Is that bad? No not really, there is a market for that, and sometimes I'm part of that market. When I read this I came away meh.
The pacing is fine, the character motivations are worked out well enough. But, I'm just too burned out on Wolverine to be interested in the character. The little bit of character work done, is done well. I would have liked more though.
September 17, 2023
3.5 stars
This was a decent, if not very original, 4 issue arc in the Wolverine book circa the late 1990’s. Warren Ellis brings a raw edginess to proceedings with the writing and Leinil Yu goes all in on the visuals.
This is ‘loner’ Wolverine on all engines, and is at heart a simple tale of revenge, in the spirit of many a Japanese film or even Tarantino at his best. Has a killer from the past come back to get his revenge on Wolverine? How can he, if Logan killed him 10 years earlier? Whatever is going on, Wolverine has a gauntlet to run, and only a pair of jeans, a leather jacket, and some bone claws to help him.
It’s quite a ride.
This was a decent, if not very original, 4 issue arc in the Wolverine book circa the late 1990’s. Warren Ellis brings a raw edginess to proceedings with the writing and Leinil Yu goes all in on the visuals.
This is ‘loner’ Wolverine on all engines, and is at heart a simple tale of revenge, in the spirit of many a Japanese film or even Tarantino at his best. Has a killer from the past come back to get his revenge on Wolverine? How can he, if Logan killed him 10 years earlier? Whatever is going on, Wolverine has a gauntlet to run, and only a pair of jeans, a leather jacket, and some bone claws to help him.
It’s quite a ride.
May 21, 2017
I like Warren Ellis, I like Wolverine... but for me this was still a bit "eh", though there were some parts I liked.
December 30, 2017
Good story, good graphics.
January 9, 2018
Well that was boring.
April 8, 2019
I liked this story of revenge, in which Wolverine is hunted by the greatest killer in the world. The past tense scenes about their time together in Hong Kong work well.
August 11, 2020
Not a bad Wolverine yarn... scratches that berserker itch with six giant claws.
June 26, 2021
Story took a bit to get into and the art style was very rigid hard lines...not bad exactly but very stylized
February 4, 2022
A book by two greats, before they were great. It's a very serviceable story, but a tad unambitious.
It could have been similar to Kravens Last Hunt, but doesn't go the extra mile.
It could have been similar to Kravens Last Hunt, but doesn't go the extra mile.
July 9, 2020
Don't bother, it's a story that's been told a thousand times over.
Someone kill's some Logan cares about, he's after revenge. Villain thinks throwing guns and bodies at Wolverine will slow him down, ending the way you expect it to.
I'm a little disappointed by how generic this was, given that it's written by Warren Ellis, maybe it was early it his career? Who knows.
Someone kill's some Logan cares about, he's after revenge. Villain thinks throwing guns and bodies at Wolverine will slow him down, ending the way you expect it to.
I'm a little disappointed by how generic this was, given that it's written by Warren Ellis, maybe it was early it his career? Who knows.
March 18, 2017
BONE CLAW WOLVERINE! EVEN MORE BADASS THAN METAL CLAW WOLVERINE! 90'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This was really damn good, actually. Ellis and Yu create one of those perfect Wolverine solo stories. Haunted by the past, a dash of berserker rage, some hope of honor. It's a good story. And Yu's artwork goes perfectly with it.
This was really damn good, actually. Ellis and Yu create one of those perfect Wolverine solo stories. Haunted by the past, a dash of berserker rage, some hope of honor. It's a good story. And Yu's artwork goes perfectly with it.
January 7, 2022
2/5
Don’t track this down because of its creative team, they’re not exactly in top form in this very stale revenge story.
Don’t track this down because of its creative team, they’re not exactly in top form in this very stale revenge story.
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