The comic book “Wolverine” recently re-launched with issue #1. For the past year or so, there’s been pretty lackluster response among readers, probably because it featured slow, introspective stories rather than action-fests with Big-Titted Ninja Babes.
Suddenly, the two most recent issues of Wolverine were in super-high demand; they flew off shelves, and can only be had for $6 to $10 a piece.
Why?
Meh. Wolverine got “killed” and mystically resurrected with a ritual putting him under a kind of mind-control. A coalition of villain groups intends to use him to off other superheroes to do the same to them, and then take over the world.
I picked up the most recent issue, where Wolverine goes after the Fantastic Four… and loses.
Because they stopped being slow and introspective and brought back the Big-Tittied Ninja Babes (Elektra was in the first two issues of the storyline).
Plus, Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. will pretty much sell any book.
It was cool seeing the Invisible Woman make Wolverine her bitch.
Well, that sounds fucking retarded. At least I know not to shell out for them now!
So not only is Wolverine in every Marvel comic ever made, now he has to be dead, resurrected under evil control, and going toe to toe against marvels greatest. :rolleyes: Good to see that they’ve been reading “How to cornhole a frachise character and ruin several books at once.”
The new Wolverine is actually pretty good. JR jr. is almost always worth checking out (except for Gray Area, which for all I know could be excellent, but you slap a six dollar price tag on a 32 page comic and you’ve lost me. I’m looking at you too, DK2).
Marvel had been doing a better job of keeping wolvy only in the X books, up 'till they made him an Avenger.
Agreed, maybe I’m in the minority, but I liked the more introspective stories. They added new facets to Logan’s character, whereas the new story arc is just a mindless hack and slash fest.
I have a regular order from my local comic shop so I did not have to pay over the odds for these issues. I would probably object if I had to but would do it as I tend to want a complete run of comics that I read.
I loved the introspective nature of the book - I was frankly shocked that they would allow such a “sure money” book to be that way. But after the first arc completed, it slunk up to a sort of half-assed middle ground - they added more action-oriented stories while keeping the introspection. The result - too much action to be a brainy, introspective book, but too much introspection to be an action book.