Remembering a legend...
I was a little worried before reading this. Jeph Loeb's current Wolverine run and Onslaught Reborn have both done anything but impress me. Thankfully I was wrong to be worried.
This is the first issue of Fallen Son that will be based on the 5 stages of grief. The first is denial, and Loeb picked the perfect character for this story. This is the logical way any fan would expect Logan to react to Captain America's death. Being screwed over by the government almost his entire life, Wolverine always expects some sort of conspiracy behind everything.
The story flows well, and no one acts out of character. If I had one complaint, it would be Wolverine's odd way of finding out if he's talking to the real Daredevil. How many times has Logan simply identified someone by smell? No reason why that wouldn't work now. Instead we get something that is a bit cheesy and that's been over-used in comic books.
Other plot points are brought up here, but Loeb doesn't dwell on them enough to take away from the main story. We all know that they are going to be brought up again in other titles, so he sees no need to distract us from the story at hand.
Wolverine also has other motives then just finding out if Steve Rogers is really dead, and again it's something we would all expect from his character. Loeb seems to know how to write Wolverine... which makes me wonder what he's doing on the actual Wolverine title... but never mind about that for now.
The Civil War tie-ins that were actually good were few and far between, but this one can actually claim to be on the small list of good ones. It's a mini series about how the Marvel Universe is dealing with the death of Captain America and it's a tribute to the character at the same time. This mini series isn't trying to pretend that it's more then that, but it does a great job of accomplishing it.
