Also this week...

EXILES #85 - We're now firmly into the stories Tom Bedard is writing while he waits for Chris Claremont to recover and take over the book, but kudos for a premise so gloriously ridiculous that you've got to admire the sheer nerve.  Having sacked the Exiles last issue, the Timebreakers introduce the new, improved team - all-new and all-Wolverine.  After all, if Wolverine is great, six of him have got to be even better.  Walking a fine line between sheer silliness and actually having a proper story, this is tremendous fun.  A-

WOLVERINE #45 - God, I love this storyline.  It's got all the playful absurdity of "Enemy of the State" without the grinding cynicism.  This issue: Wolverine in underwater armour!  With claws!  You either get it and roll with the absurdity, or you don't and you'll hate it with a passion.  Emphatically not for anyone who thinks Wolverine stories should be taken particularly seriously, but so cheerfully nonsensical that I can't help but smile.  And when they stop for a couple of panels to lecture Wolverine about his extremely inconsistent sense of honour, there are some fair points being made as well.  A

There's more from me at If Destroyed, and if you're desperate for more Article 10 columns, you can always hunt through the archives on Ninth Art.

Next week, Dazzler stars in Ultimate X-Men Annual #2 and the strange X-Men: Fairy Tales miniseries concludes.  Meanwhile, Civil War ploughs on in Cable & Deadpool #31, X-Factor #10 builds to the big fight with Singularity Investigations, and X-Men #190 (running a week late) continues the Children storyline. 

Those of you waiting for Ultimate Wolverine vs Hulk #3, originally scheduled for 19 April and subsequently billed for 17 May, 12 July, 9 August and 20 September, will be thrilled to hear that it's now been put back again to 25 October.  Bryan Hitch must be applauding fiercely.

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