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Dodgy Wolverine miniseries, number
three: WOLVERINE / DOOP. Perhaps I should be
kind and call it "enigmatic." But to be honest, this
was a bit of a misfire. Wolverine and Doop run
around in a deliberately insane and impenetrable plot,
trying to track down the Pink Mink. Much as I like
Peter Milligan, this was just too damned weird for its own
good. If anyone out there actually has a clue what
the point was supposed to be, do let me know.
Reviews: Wolverine / Doop #1 |
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Wolverine miniseries, number four: WOLVERINE: SNIKT!.
It sounds like a good idea on paper - get a top manga
artist to do a Wolverine story, and see if you can bridge
those audiences. The result is an utterly pointless
five-issue fight in the far future which isn't going to
win anyone over to manga, and has nothing whatsoever to do
with Wolverine. Initial solicitations suggested a
vastly different plot which would in fact have been more
specific to Wolverine, so god only know what was going on
backstage with this one. It was rubbish, anyway.
Reviews: Wolverine: Snikt! #1 |
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Dodgy Wolverine miniseries, number
five: WOLVERINE: THE END. A bookend to
Origin covering Wolverine's final days. Only had
one issue out so far, so it's really too early to judge,
but I wasn't much impressed. Somebody really needs
to tell artist Claudio Castellini that Wolverine is not a
tall man with a mullet. Issue #1 did sell very well,
however. So as with Origin, it might turn out
to be a sales juggernaut where I'm in the minority...
Reviews: Wolverine: The End #1 |
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Wolverine miniseries, number six: WOLVERINE: X-ISLE.
Christ, this sucked. Wolverine wakes up on an island
and goes round and round in circles having hallucinations
as he tries to get off it. Eventually it turns out
that he dumped himself there because he felt really guilty
about letting down his foster daughter. And the boy
symbolises his inner child. It's REALLY DEEP.
Or at least, it thinks it is. It's actually
dreadful, pretentious crap.
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Where there's a movie, there's a tie-in. Hence, the
two X-MEN 2 PREQUELS. In the interests of
balance, let it be noted that Chuck Austen wrote the
Nightcrawler one, and it was really quite good. The
Wolverine one tries to square two very different versions
of Sabretooth, and ends up making a bit of a mess.
Still, not bad for tie-ins, all told. Reviews: X-Men 2 Prequels: Nightcrawler
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Ah, the Mangaverse. I gave up
reading X-MEN: RONIN after two issues because I was
so bored by it. I didn't even touch the other X-Men
Mangaverse series, X-Men: Phoenix, because the
covers were so embarrassing. (Okay, I flicked
through issue #1 in the store, and it looked every bit as
bad as I was expecting, so I put it straight back.)
The Mangaverse appears to have quietly died a death,
judging from the solicitations. If these were any
indication of what it had to offer, then I certainly won't
miss it.
Reviews: X-Men: Ronin #1 |
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And that's 2003. The next
year, of course, is completely up in the air at the moment,
until we find out what's happening after Grant Morrison moves
on. Expect announcements in the new year on that one.
Over at Ninth Art, you might want
to read my most recent
column. I'd also direct your attention to the
Committee for the Prevention of Sequential Mediocrity and
their review of the worst of mainstream comics in 2003.
Part
one,
part
two.
As for next week, there aren't
any X-books due out. I'll probably do a couple of random
reviews anyway, though...
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