Nothing much to be said about Hulk / Wolverine: 6 Hours #3 beyond what I've said in relation to previous issues.  And since there's plenty of other X-books this week, I'll skip quickly past this one.

This is a perfectly okay story, but nothing special.  It's a reasonably well-plotted affair involving a chase through the wilderness, although by this point I think we've all got the point that the pilot is going to be plucky and stand up to the nasty drug dealer men.

It falls down on two points.  One, it's got one of those annoying villains you've never heard of before who's brought in and promptly announced as being invincible and intimidating to the hero.  It's the villain equivalent of a Mary Sue character, and the character does little to justify his reputation.  So he slices people up - well, yes?  And?  The character design simply doesn't work for what the story seems to have in mind.  We're meant to find the Shredder scary, but in fact he just looks like a lopsided Cobra Commander.

Two, aside from an oh-so-coincidental history between Wolverine and the Shredder, it's really got nothing to do with the two title characters, and it supports my concerns that what we were going to get here was a "real time" gimmick story welded onto two characters who needed a plot for their miniseries.

It's not a bad comic - the art's attractive when it isn't called on to do fantasy elements, the plotting is fairly tight, and Jones has a decent grasp of the characters.  It just never feels like there's much point to the whole exercise.

Rating: B-

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