By Bruce Jones & Jorge Lucas (Marvel)
ISBN 0-7851-1221-9
Woefully disappointing psychobabble time-wasting from the usually exceptional Bruce Jones as the semi-feral mutant slash-meister finds himself trapped on a mysterious desert island. Somehow his mutant healing abilities no longer work. There’s a monster that keeps killing him. And most annoying of all, when he goes to the pub, everybody there ignores him as if he doesn’t exist.
Wolverine has come a long way from his babbling beserker days (he even has an adopted daughter in tow) but he was never stupid, but that’s the only possible answer for why it takes him five issues rather than eight pages to arrive at the solution to the puzzle that keeps him trapped in this lackadaisical plot.
Sadly not even the beautiful artwork of Jorge Lucas can save this slice of puff-pastry from the “ignore†pile. If you’re a returning reader or you’ve come direct from the numerous animated series or blockbuster movies , this is definitely not the Wolverine book for you to start with.
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