Wolverine #13

Wolverine (2020) (Single Issues)

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

HELLFIRE COMPROMISED! Can WOLVERINE and X-FORCE keep the peace or is the gala doomed?

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

26 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 23, 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

[Tanabrus · Rating 3 out of 5]

Come è già stato fatto notare, più che un numero di Wolverine questo è la seconda parte del tie-in di X-Force.

Esplode e viene risolta la questione di Terra Verde, Bestia alterna momenti in cui sembra un pazzo psicopatico pronto a far fuori gli amici a momenti in cui pare solo un pazzo psicopatico che crede di essere il salvatore di Krakoa, Wolverine chiaramente simpatizza con le vittime di Bestia e Deadpool torna in scena fin troppo presto per i miei gusti.

E continua il mistero dei cristalli logici Shi'ar.

Un buon numero di X-Force, peccato sia Wolverine.

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

So X-Force part 2 here.

Beast is still an asshole, the Marauder gets stolen and burnt out and terra Verde is returned to as it was before the start... Another arc then went nowhere.

I actually think I need a break from X titles for a while, I'm just so overwhelmed with ennui for the series now.

After the Yawnfire Gala I may keep buying, stick them in a cupboard and maybe in a month catch up and see if a break re-engages me.

[Shawn Ingle · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is really X-Force at the Hellfire Gala part 2. The artwork is bland. They gave Wolverine a few lines and some fight scenes but he was pretty much irrelevant to the actual storyline which can be summed up as Beast is an entitled jerk. I stopped caring about X-Force a little ways back because it gave me nothing to care about. This is just more of the same. The Hellfire Gala in general continues to underwhelm as well.

[Scratch · Rating 2 out of 5]

This wasn't really an issue of Wolverine, it was an issue of X-Force. I'm not even sure I can say that it had that tight a focus on Wolverine in particular. Debatably, it was Sage who saved the day. Beast who took the limelight. And, sadly, Deadpool who was inflicted upon us all.

Fucking Deadpool. The only character I might possibly hate more than Wolverine.

What did Deadpool even mean when he said "OG X-Force"? Why, because his character was introduced in an issue of X-Force in the 90s? He wasn't a team member. That X-Force was Cable, Cannonball, Boomer, Rictor, Feral, Domino, Warpath, Shatterstar, Sunspot, and Siryn.

[Ian Sharman · Rating 3 out of 5]

This wasn't exactly bad, just a little disappointing, and...well...this was really an extra issue of X-Force, and not an issue of Wolverine. He was hardly in it.

But, let's not review this for what it isn't, let's review this for what it is, and what is it? Well, it's the second part of X-Force at the Hellfire Gala. Beast's meddling in Terra Verde is exposed and...the resolution is honestly odd. I'm not sure that I'd accept a billion dollars as recompense for a coup in which the people of my nation were effectively enslaved and mind controlled. And I don't think describing Beast as "a bastard" really goes far enough. He's an increasingly dangerous, amoral, megalomaniac. If he was wearing a purple cape and helmet the X-Men would be fighting him, not counting him among their number. As I've said many times before, something is rotten at the heart of Krakoa, and it's not just Onslaught.

This is all headed somewhere very bad. If you went into the current era of X-boos thinking that Krakoa would be a mutant utopia, then I think you are both very naïve and very mistaken.

[heidi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This issue is mostly saved by Deadpool (for me) and because I personally enjoy seeing Christian Frost eat shit.

[Geoff · Rating 4 out of 5]

At the moment, the Wolverine books tends to be a better version of the X-Force books. This is no different.

[James · Rating 2 out of 5]

This one felt like a miss. Maybe it’s because I haven’t read any of the other Hellfire Gala books. Kind of not sure why all this stuff was happening. Oh, and as a Wolverine comic, Wolverine was barely in it and the story wasn’t even about him.

[Kumasama · Rating 3 out of 5]

*Score: 6/10*

Seems like one of the volumes that is in the middle of mutiple series, and I was not following some references, but overall I got the gist of it and its a very standard volume.

[Mana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gracious. That was a lot. Still some questions to be answered like how did the mind control break and who torched the ship among others. I think the most pressing thing is whole Beast was wrong in mind controlling a nation. He’s not wrong that every nation spies on others to stay ahead. Krakoa did force the world to accept them but only after they have fought and died for peaceful coexistence. They finally said enough is enough. Think the better question is how far do you go to save yourself from being annihilated? It’s naive to think that every nation doesn’t have a black ops squad keeping them safe. But who decides what to do, who should do it and when? I don’t agree with all Beast decisions but I know some of them are unavoidable.

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well that all worked out I guess. A little anticlimactic though. Beast is a war criminal and justified it the most disgusting way possible. I want to scream at him so I guess I'm emotionally attached to the storyline. Was fun seeing Deadpool, now he can go back to his own book. Who murdered Christian?

[Tom Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this as part of the Hellfire Gala event across all the different X-Men runs. While I enjoyed it I did feel like it is somewhat necessary to read the rest of the individual series to fully grasp everything that happens. I wish it would have either been a stand alone series or less connected to so many different series but overall it was enjoyable.

[J. Milius · Rating 4 out of 5]

Emma’s absolutely right, [spoiler] IS a bastard.

[Roman Colombo · Rating 4 out of 5]

So, Beast has really gone off the rails, huh. And come on, let Deadpool join X-Force.

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Hadley]

got the design variant cover with Kitty Pryde because again I’m a goddamn LEGEND

[Chad Bunch · Rating 3 out of 5]

Deadpool made this issue....

[Jesse · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was much more an X-Force book than Wolverine. But I really liked it. Morally grey Beast has been a great thing to see develop over the years.