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Wolverine (2020)
Wolverine: Der Beste, Bd. 2: Bis aufs Blut
VERRATEN UND VERKAUFT!
Vor vielen Jahren war Wolverine Teil einer berüchtigten Spezial-Einheit. Jedes Mitglied von Team X war eine lebende Waffe. Wie die anderen Undercover-Agenten stellte Logan keine Fragen, sondern tat, was die Vorgesetzten von ihm verlangten. Meist wurde sein Gedächtnis nach einem Auftrag gelöscht. Doch nun hat seine Spürnase eine Fährte aufgenommen, die jede Menge alter Erinnerungen weckt, denn der tödlichste aller deutschen Mutanten kehrt ins Rampenlicht zurück. Aber welche Agenda verfolgt der Mann namens Maverick?!
Autor Benjamin Percy, Zeichenlegende Adam Kubert und der Schweizer Senkrechtstarter Victor Bogdanović fahren die Krallen aus.
ENTHÄLT: WOLVERINE (2020) 8-12
Vor vielen Jahren war Wolverine Teil einer berüchtigten Spezial-Einheit. Jedes Mitglied von Team X war eine lebende Waffe. Wie die anderen Undercover-Agenten stellte Logan keine Fragen, sondern tat, was die Vorgesetzten von ihm verlangten. Meist wurde sein Gedächtnis nach einem Auftrag gelöscht. Doch nun hat seine Spürnase eine Fährte aufgenommen, die jede Menge alter Erinnerungen weckt, denn der tödlichste aller deutschen Mutanten kehrt ins Rampenlicht zurück. Aber welche Agenda verfolgt der Mann namens Maverick?!
Autor Benjamin Percy, Zeichenlegende Adam Kubert und der Schweizer Senkrechtstarter Victor Bogdanović fahren die Krallen aus.
ENTHÄLT: WOLVERINE (2020) 8-12
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Benjamin Percy
785 books1,203 followersBenjamin 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.
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January 27, 2023
So where does a solo Wolverine title sit in the Krakoa X-book universe? I would say with difficulty. The first half of this volume is typical legacy Logan fare with his blurry past impacting on his present with ties to Team X of the Sabretooth, Maverick, Logan etc. pre X-Men dark CIA ops' days. The second half bleeds (pun intended) into the ongoing mutants vs Vampire Nation & Omega Red(!) storyline, with Dracul seeking the possible daylight walking powers of Logan's blood. A mish-mash of gap-filling stories in my opinion lacking any real bite (pun intended :)). A Three Star, 6 out of 12 read.
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May 28, 2022
Maverick is back in the picture and we get some nice flashbacks to Team X. Adam Kubert's art is just banging. I really liked the sequence at the auction. Then Scott Eaton draws the return of Vampire Nation. They're seeking Wolverine for his blood so they can become Daywalkers while Wolverine and the vampire hunting nun Louise are destroying vampire nests. I'm really curious about those final pages.
March 3, 2025
The Maverick story was ok. Liked the campfire story better.
October 22, 2021
Wolverine faces up to (suprise surprise) mysterious incidents related to his past and then also a growing Vampire Nation, all while struggling to find for Work/Life Balance with his Krakoan intelligence agent duties.
Also, Maverick's back! plus that top-knotted d-bag Omega Red! and, like, that Jeff Bannister guy, man.
Fun.
Also, Maverick's back! plus that top-knotted d-bag Omega Red! and, like, that Jeff Bannister guy, man.
Fun.
March 29, 2022
This was so good OMG!
So the initial story is with Wolverine being asked by Beast to recover the remnants of Team X and so he goes undercover to Legacy House as Patch but what he finds there is Maverick and some other interesting things and so it falls to him to team up with his former friend to save him and also fight the other people there and also CIA/X-Desk and its a fun face-off and then them on their ways and we learn of the history between the two and maybe Maverick's loyalty is not exactly "known" and this is again the case of Percy setting stuff for the future and its becoming a theme. So good fun story.
The next story is with him tracking Omega Red and whatever he has been upto as X-Force thinks he doesn't exactly have the best of interests of Krakoa and well there is double-cross on top of it all. Wolverine meets Louise and sees what happened to her and saves her, teams up with her and Omega Red who has his own motives now vs Dracula and takes down his army but with the latter sort of escaping and Wolverine going to Sevalith (in other world) to get the help of Death and I love the way they use the elements of X of Swords and stuff Hickman set up in his stories in such awesome ways!
Its really great and the way Percy writes it is awesome and he does a great job of showing multiple threats and builds up sub plots which will come back in major ways and also I love the way he uses continuity both from Wolverine's past and X-Men's new status quo to create some exciting new stories and the art just gets better, and yeah I liked it more than the previous volume for sure and it just keeps getting better with every volume! I highly reommend it!
So the initial story is with Wolverine being asked by Beast to recover the remnants of Team X and so he goes undercover to Legacy House as Patch but what he finds there is Maverick and some other interesting things and so it falls to him to team up with his former friend to save him and also fight the other people there and also CIA/X-Desk and its a fun face-off and then them on their ways and we learn of the history between the two and maybe Maverick's loyalty is not exactly "known" and this is again the case of Percy setting stuff for the future and its becoming a theme. So good fun story.
The next story is with him tracking Omega Red and whatever he has been upto as X-Force thinks he doesn't exactly have the best of interests of Krakoa and well there is double-cross on top of it all. Wolverine meets Louise and sees what happened to her and saves her, teams up with her and Omega Red who has his own motives now vs Dracula and takes down his army but with the latter sort of escaping and Wolverine going to Sevalith (in other world) to get the help of Death and I love the way they use the elements of X of Swords and stuff Hickman set up in his stories in such awesome ways!
Its really great and the way Percy writes it is awesome and he does a great job of showing multiple threats and builds up sub plots which will come back in major ways and also I love the way he uses continuity both from Wolverine's past and X-Men's new status quo to create some exciting new stories and the art just gets better, and yeah I liked it more than the previous volume for sure and it just keeps getting better with every volume! I highly reommend it!
June 1, 2022
A bit dissapointed with this book. As I really like Maverick possibly my expectations were to high for this story arc. This covers issues 8-10. Issues 6 and 7 from the X of Swords are not in this volume. I do have to admit I do like that Maverick given a part play later in this series. Interesting item bring auctioned. Where and when is it from?
Issue 11 and 12 continue the vampire arc. I prefer the artwork in these issues but I do feel this was very rushed. Again it does set up something for later. I do find it interesting that Beast seems to be lot more cold blooded and willing to give "dirty" orders to get the job done. In fact he is almost willing to do everything Weapon X did.
All in all the setups are more interesting that most of what actially takes place in the book. I hope these to bear fruit. The book finishes with a cover gallery with full page covers of all the issues and some of the varient covers.
Issue 11 and 12 continue the vampire arc. I prefer the artwork in these issues but I do feel this was very rushed. Again it does set up something for later. I do find it interesting that Beast seems to be lot more cold blooded and willing to give "dirty" orders to get the job done. In fact he is almost willing to do everything Weapon X did.
All in all the setups are more interesting that most of what actially takes place in the book. I hope these to bear fruit. The book finishes with a cover gallery with full page covers of all the issues and some of the varient covers.
August 27, 2021
Maverick's back, and Wolverine wants him on his side, whether Maverick likes it or not. Plus vampires, Omega Red, and more stabbing than you can shake an adamantium claw at.
The opening three parter here with Maverick is probably the best arc of this series thus far. It's fun, has some good history to it, and the set pieces in the auction house are just darn cool. The vampire arc's a bit blander, which is strange given that you'd think vampires would automatically be cool, but there just seems to be a kind of malaise to the story, like there's no real momentum to it.
Oh, the art's great though - Adam Kubert's three issues are grand which is always surprising to me since he's always felt kind of rushed in recent memory, and the ever reliable Scot Eaton steps up for the vampire issues.
I do wonder if Percy's having problems balancing Wolverine's solo adventures with his X-Force stuff. Wolverine's always been a hard sell for me personally outside of teams, and he does seem to be scrabbling around to find things for him to do that aren't already being covered by X-Force in their book. Even here, there are duplications in terms of the Omega Red stuff which has also been explored over in X-Force, so I'm struggling to think why Wolverine needs a solo book other than 'he always has one'.
The opening three parter here with Maverick is probably the best arc of this series thus far. It's fun, has some good history to it, and the set pieces in the auction house are just darn cool. The vampire arc's a bit blander, which is strange given that you'd think vampires would automatically be cool, but there just seems to be a kind of malaise to the story, like there's no real momentum to it.
Oh, the art's great though - Adam Kubert's three issues are grand which is always surprising to me since he's always felt kind of rushed in recent memory, and the ever reliable Scot Eaton steps up for the vampire issues.
I do wonder if Percy's having problems balancing Wolverine's solo adventures with his X-Force stuff. Wolverine's always been a hard sell for me personally outside of teams, and he does seem to be scrabbling around to find things for him to do that aren't already being covered by X-Force in their book. Even here, there are duplications in terms of the Omega Red stuff which has also been explored over in X-Force, so I'm struggling to think why Wolverine needs a solo book other than 'he always has one'.
February 15, 2022
This was just okay. In a strange twist, I'm actually reading X-Force, Vol. 3, at the same time, and that is soooooo much better. It's almost like a solo Wolverine book just isn't necessary? The artwork was all right, though I have to admit I'm new to Maverick and he pretty much looks ridiculous throughout (particularly on the main cover). Hopefully, Percy's got more up his sleeve than this...
April 16, 2022
This has a lot of Jonathan Hickman “you have to read some other book to fully understand the stories in this collection” business going on. That’s ok because I’ll probably read X-Force, X of Swords, etc. eventually.
What made me want to write a review was one of the most glorious pages I’ve ever seen in any comic. The first two pages of issue 12 are just breathtakingly perfect in their composition, drawing, inking, and most especially Coloring! The palette is darkness and light that captures the beauty of Paris at night, a rather ambitious goal for a comic.
Also, at least two interesting characters from Wolverine’s past, as well as some of the better interstitial in-universe “reports” made this my favorite of the new X-Men collections so far. And the ART!!!
What made me want to write a review was one of the most glorious pages I’ve ever seen in any comic. The first two pages of issue 12 are just breathtakingly perfect in their composition, drawing, inking, and most especially Coloring! The palette is darkness and light that captures the beauty of Paris at night, a rather ambitious goal for a comic.
Also, at least two interesting characters from Wolverine’s past, as well as some of the better interstitial in-universe “reports” made this my favorite of the new X-Men collections so far. And the ART!!!
August 9, 2023
Honestly, I can’t get enough of Wolverine right now. I love this series and what they’re doing with him as a major agent of Krakoa’s X-Force, but in missions mostly of his own through this title. This volume splits focus on the story of gaining Maverick back, which I loved, even though I’m not too familiar with the character, and the story of Wolverine being Dracula’s target for his healing factor blood, allowing vampires to walk in the sunlight. Such an interesting concept and I love it!
September 11, 2021
I know nothing about Team X, so that was the more interesting part of the book. Still not super into the vampire stuff.
October 9, 2021
This second collection of issues is still a lot of fun, if not quite as much as the first. Kubert draws most of the art and it’s pretty great. Eaton’s lines in the last two issues weren’t quite as enjoyable at first, but Wilson’s watercoloring over them fits really well and changed my mind. I continue to be impressed with this series’s use of two distinct art teams that both work well.
The story is still balanced pretty evenly between merc affairs and vampire nation scheming. The merc plot this time sees allusion to Logan’s old Patch persona (which I only know by reference, but still worked for me) as he investigates what’s going on with a former merc teammate. It ended up reinforcing to me how much of a pleasant softie Wolverine has become in Krakoa, akin to someone meeting up with a friend they used to play in a punk band with. Except now they’re just the “alternative guy” at an office job and their old punk friend is trying to convince them to quit the job and go on tour in a crappy van, but Krakoa’s 401k is nice and Wolverine kind of appreciates that his current teammates aren’t likely to wake him up drunkenly peeing on him (uh, metaphorically).
I’ve initially been wary of the seeming silliness of the vampire nation bits in each volume, and each time I’ve been re-sold that they actually perfectly fit in a Wolverine story. The vampires still want Logan as a turbocharged blood bank experiment, and the clever climax to this installment made me laugh with delight.
The story is still balanced pretty evenly between merc affairs and vampire nation scheming. The merc plot this time sees allusion to Logan’s old Patch persona (which I only know by reference, but still worked for me) as he investigates what’s going on with a former merc teammate. It ended up reinforcing to me how much of a pleasant softie Wolverine has become in Krakoa, akin to someone meeting up with a friend they used to play in a punk band with. Except now they’re just the “alternative guy” at an office job and their old punk friend is trying to convince them to quit the job and go on tour in a crappy van, but Krakoa’s 401k is nice and Wolverine kind of appreciates that his current teammates aren’t likely to wake him up drunkenly peeing on him (uh, metaphorically).
I’ve initially been wary of the seeming silliness of the vampire nation bits in each volume, and each time I’ve been re-sold that they actually perfectly fit in a Wolverine story. The vampires still want Logan as a turbocharged blood bank experiment, and the clever climax to this installment made me laugh with delight.
December 21, 2024
“But why would anyone care about Team X? That’s ancient history.” - Wolverine
I am begging Marvel to let this be so. Hooooooly fuck I don’t care about Team X or this 700th iteration of Wolverine’s past coming back to haunt him.
Just stick with the vampire storyline even though it sucks.
I am begging Marvel to let this be so. Hooooooly fuck I don’t care about Team X or this 700th iteration of Wolverine’s past coming back to haunt him.
Just stick with the vampire storyline even though it sucks.
June 14, 2022
Wolverine recovers old pal Maverick from a mutant auction - the story is fairly standard issue, but Adam Kubert's layouts and artwork deserve a second look. Then, we return to the vampire issue from the first volume. The art is middling to bad in comparison to Kubert and the plot is tangled (). Wolverine continues to be a fun, fast-paced read, but it feels distanced from both the X-verse and the "lone wolf" vibe of past Wolverine comics.
November 6, 2021
After a pretty good first volume, Percy's second volume of Wolverine just doesn't go anywhere fast.
The first arc, about retrieving Maverick, goes into Wolverine's mercenary past, but I've personally never found Maverick, with his basis in the '90s, to be a particularly interesting character.
The second arc then focuses again on the vampires, and really doesn't go anywhere. Another major victory against them, but still more to go.
I liked the continuity, but I was too often bored by this second volume.
The first arc, about retrieving Maverick, goes into Wolverine's mercenary past, but I've personally never found Maverick, with his basis in the '90s, to be a particularly interesting character.
The second arc then focuses again on the vampires, and really doesn't go anywhere. Another major victory against them, but still more to go.
I liked the continuity, but I was too often bored by this second volume.
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January 30, 2022Three issues of standard Logan fare, men with too much darkness in their pasts to ever be all the way good still faced with choices about how they're going to put that experience to use in the here and now. Then two returning to the ongoing Dracula subplot, the vampire nation's quest for daywalking and exclusivity a warped mirror of the ways Krakoa has changed the mutants' lot. None of it is essential, or even remarkable, but it still does its bit as part of the substrate of solid work underlying the peaks of the current X-books.
September 3, 2021
This volume has all the same issues as the first; middle of the road, unnecessary storylines, forgettable. It is fine for what it is. I did not hate it. That is about the best I can say about it.
January 15, 2022
So the first three issues in this collection are all bringing Maverick from Team X back into the comics, and beyond there being a quick and fun sequence involving an auction, it really isn’t doing a ton. Highlights remain the Jeff Bridges-adjacent Jeff Bannister (his name really does seem like a pun…) interacting Logan.
The second two issues continue Wolverine’s fight against the rising tide of the Vampire Nation lead by Dracul/Dracula. I honestly am not sure I knew that vampire beyond Morbius really existed in this current canon, but I guess Blade is Marvel and there we go. I hated this all at first, but then they added bloodclocks for daywalking and a sunblock biosuit (which I’ll follow Forge in college a “battle coffin”) and now I’m totally on board because this shit is deeply silly. Your mileage, of course, may vary.
The second two issues continue Wolverine’s fight against the rising tide of the Vampire Nation lead by Dracul/Dracula. I honestly am not sure I knew that vampire beyond Morbius really existed in this current canon, but I guess Blade is Marvel and there we go. I hated this all at first, but then they added bloodclocks for daywalking and a sunblock biosuit (which I’ll follow Forge in college a “battle coffin”) and now I’m totally on board because this shit is deeply silly. Your mileage, of course, may vary.
August 26, 2021
If you fed a robot or an ape Wolverine comics from the late-80s to now and then asked him to write a Wolverine story, he’d come up with something better than this mediocre story for sure. It’s so uninspired, it’s horribly written, it’s full of half baked cliches, poor decisions and forced romance, it’s complete ass.
On the art side you get a little Bogdanovic and some Kubert and then two issues from fill-in artist Eaton. The book ships once a month, has two full time artists on it and they still need a full-in to do 2/5 of the book… it’s ridiculous.
Literally the only good thing about post-X of Swords Wolverine is Matthew Wilson’s colours!
On the art side you get a little Bogdanovic and some Kubert and then two issues from fill-in artist Eaton. The book ships once a month, has two full time artists on it and they still need a full-in to do 2/5 of the book… it’s ridiculous.
Literally the only good thing about post-X of Swords Wolverine is Matthew Wilson’s colours!
December 12, 2021
This volume focuses primarily on the Vampire threat, pulling together a few plot threads from previous issues. It's quite clear why they want him and his blood although the conflict is yet to be resolved. Louise is back, as well as an old "coworker" of Logan's (which I could have sworn there was a story a few years ago that basically removed him from newer stories.). Omega Red continues to be a mainstay. I'm enjoying Logan's immediate hatred of him anytime they are in the room. The art isn't bad but does vary issue to issue, more than I would like. Solid entertainment but nothing extraordinary.
October 22, 2023
Why is this book so fucking boring?
It’s got plenty of snikt and gruff quoting, and there’s clandestine and old death squad buddies, you got some memory loss and regrets… isn’t that a quintessential Wolverine book?
And yet I can’t hardly get through one issue without putting it down.
Then there’s the Dracula (?!?) subplot, which makes ABSOLUTELY no fucking sense in the Krakoa era. When did we get a boner for vampires in Marvel comics again? (Is this some editorial Hail Mary from the heady times when an MCU Blade movie was just around the corner?)
It’s got plenty of snikt and gruff quoting, and there’s clandestine and old death squad buddies, you got some memory loss and regrets… isn’t that a quintessential Wolverine book?
And yet I can’t hardly get through one issue without putting it down.
Then there’s the Dracula (?!?) subplot, which makes ABSOLUTELY no fucking sense in the Krakoa era. When did we get a boner for vampires in Marvel comics again? (Is this some editorial Hail Mary from the heady times when an MCU Blade movie was just around the corner?)
July 2, 2021
Not into the Dracula stuff that much, but way into the X-Force stuff
May 4, 2023
the stuff with maverick was great percy is really good with logan’s inner monologue but the vampire stuff was sleep luckily it only lasted two issues
March 11, 2024
Good but not great, like most of Percy’s work for me.
December 4, 2022
*Score: 7.5/10*
This is a lot more focused as now we are following some specific conflicts and story threads. The story while not highly original is entertaining, and the character monoluges and dynamics are more interesting.
This is a lot more focused as now we are following some specific conflicts and story threads. The story while not highly original is entertaining, and the character monoluges and dynamics are more interesting.
April 16, 2025
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February 23, 2022
This volume contains two story arcs, the first of which involves a team of mercenaries stealing items related to Team X, a team of assassins on which a brainwashed Wolverine once served against his will with Maverick and Sabretooth. Wolverine's investigation leads him to go undercover at an auction of hero and villain memorabilia in Madripoor, and because this is Wolverine, of course things get messy. And by messy I mean bloody. Very, very bloody. This is a pretty straightforward story without much depth to it, but seeing Wolverine and Maverick sharing a few good buddy moments as they mow through bad guys together is fun.
The second story arc picks up the story about the Vampire Nation, in which Dracula wants Wolverine for his blood, after discovering that by ingesting it vampires can walk in the sunlight for a day. He hopes to engineer some kind of permanent solution to shield them from the sun. Omega Red is also involved in this story as a pawn coerced into serving the Vampire Nation. This was the least interesting story from the first volume that carried over here, and it doesn't end in this book either. Though the ending at least sets up an interesting conflict between the Vampire Nation . I hope that we can finally put this vampire story to bed in the next volume though, because they pose no threat whatsoever to someone like Wolverine, so seeing him mowing through hordes of vampires gets old after a page or two.
Adam Kubert does the pencils on the Maverick/Team 7 story and they are fantastic as usual. Scot Eaton handles the two vampire issues and his pencils are fine, but they are a bit simplistic in contrast to Kubert's and there is an (understandable, given the subject matter) overreliance on black inks that make the art less interesting to me than the first half of the volume.
This wasn't a bad read, but it doesn't feel like anything of consequence happens here.
2.5 STARS
The second story arc picks up the story about the Vampire Nation, in which Dracula wants Wolverine for his blood, after discovering that by ingesting it vampires can walk in the sunlight for a day. He hopes to engineer some kind of permanent solution to shield them from the sun. Omega Red is also involved in this story as a pawn coerced into serving the Vampire Nation. This was the least interesting story from the first volume that carried over here, and it doesn't end in this book either. Though the ending at least sets up an interesting conflict between the Vampire Nation . I hope that we can finally put this vampire story to bed in the next volume though, because they pose no threat whatsoever to someone like Wolverine, so seeing him mowing through hordes of vampires gets old after a page or two.
Adam Kubert does the pencils on the Maverick/Team 7 story and they are fantastic as usual. Scot Eaton handles the two vampire issues and his pencils are fine, but they are a bit simplistic in contrast to Kubert's and there is an (understandable, given the subject matter) overreliance on black inks that make the art less interesting to me than the first half of the volume.
This wasn't a bad read, but it doesn't feel like anything of consequence happens here.
2.5 STARS
October 1, 2024
Not bad, but sometimes I miss the old days of Patch in Madripoor with Bloodsport, Roughhouse, Tyger Tiger and such. This one brings back Maverick and finds Wolverine doing some spy type stuff.
This new Wolverine series seems to be following two distinct themes: an espionage theme tied into Wolverine's Weapon X days, and a horror theme featuring vampires and Dracula. So far, it's working well.
This new Wolverine series seems to be following two distinct themes: an espionage theme tied into Wolverine's Weapon X days, and a horror theme featuring vampires and Dracula. So far, it's working well.
July 31, 2023
The Maverick stuff was great.
Sick already of the vampire junk.
Sick already of the vampire junk.
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