"Enemy of the State" continues in Wolverine - and, by the way, if anyone can explain how the hell the tie-in story from last week's New Thunderbolts is supposed to fit with this storyline, I'd love to hear it.

Anyhow, we're still in Mark Millar territory, and that means more fighting and...  well, mainly just more fighting.  There's not a huge amount that can really be said about these issues, but then that's kind of the point.  Wolverine was in need of something like this, a well paced, well written straight-up action brawl, to bring us back to the core of what makes the character work.  It's not necessarily what makes the character interesting on a personality level, but we've spent so long focussing on that side of him, a nice fight scene seems long overdue.

This month's victim is Daredevil, a choice which seems more than a little arbitrary until it becomes apparent what HYDRA and the Hand are really up to.  Then it makes perfect sense.  It's a nice little reversal.  Romita enjoys himself with some good heavyweight fighting, and Millar seems finally to have found a character where he can indulge himself without toppling over into outright cynicism.  Well, for the most part.

I wouldn't want every Wolverine storyline to be like this.  But some of them should be, and we're long overdue for one.  Especially one that does it well.

Rating: A

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