Viktor Bogdanovic is a far better fit, his slightly off-kilter people and spiky style selling the unnerving vampire community, with colour artist Matthew Wilson very effective on those sequences also. His most memorable creation is the eccentric, overweight CIA agent who could be seen as a gentler mirror image of Wolverine.

Just as mutants have united into a single community, so have vampires, and there’s someone very powerful taking discarded petals from Krakoan medicine and perverting their intended purpose by developing a street drug from them.Īdam Kubert has plenty of experience on high profile Wolverine projects (see recommendations) and has nothing left to prove with regard to the character, which is perhaps why his art is that of a good comic artist producing functional pages without ever stunning.

However, while the beginning might be obvious, Percy sharpens up, introducing two plot threads that may rehash familiar themes, but which also refresh them. Over the opening pages, though, it seems as though Percy’s taking the shorthand route with Wolverine, who’s seemingly killed his team-mates, prompting an existential crisis, followed by an alcohol-worshipping session. As X-Force is also written by Percy, some consistency is possible, although it’s going to frustrate readers who prefer Wolverine as a slashing solo act rather than with a mutant backing band. Mutants are now all one almost happy family gathered on the living island of Krakoa, from which healing, plant-based drugs are distributed around the world, and Wolverine is part of X-Force, a team carrying out the unpleasant missions others might baulk at. There have been many Wolverine series, but what distinguishes the writing of Benjamin Percy is that he ties this reboot directly into the X-Men continuity.

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