Rounding off this week's seven X-books, we have Wolverine/Captain America #3.

God, this series is boring.  By all means, do a nice old-school superhero romp with Wolverine and Captain America.  Why not?  But at least try and have a slight degree of imagination in there.  This really is an almost totally generic comic.  It's hard to know what to say about it, other than to gawp at just how formulaic it really is.

We're still hunting for the macguffin, and the villains are still one-dimensional.  Wolverine's healing factor isn't working because he was shot with magnetised bullets and as we all know, magnets stop you healing.  Don't laugh - magnets can be dangerous in the wrong hands.  Saddam Hussein had fridge magnets, you know.  What does that tell you?

If it wasn't such ludicrous pseudoscience, even by comic book standards, that scene would at least get points for imagination.  Other than that, it's completely by numbers.  The book obviously fancies itself as an old-school superhero comic - it even has lettering in capitals, which is very un-Marvel these days.  But it's one thing to hark back to an earlier era and another to slavishly follow the formula.

Dreary.

Rating: C-

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