Wolverine # 74 - A Mile In My Moccasins: Part 2/ One-Percenter: Part 2
is a comic book published by Marvel Publishing & released on 8 / / 2009User Rating - 13 votes, 3.5 avg.
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TWO STORIES over TWO ISSUES! Each tale begins in WOLVERINE #73 and concludes in #74…as the WOLVERINE comic book makes a change you won’t believe… “A DAY IN THE LIFE” PART 2 Superstar WOLVERINE artist ADAM KUBERT returns, joined by superstar WOLVERINE writer JASON AARON! Experience a day in the life for America’s favorite mutant—a day packed with action, women, villains, costume changes and beer. Ever wonder why Logan keeps himself so busy these days? The answer lies within. “ONE PERCENTER” PART 2 Meanwhile, WOLVERINE: ORIGINS writer DANIEL WAY is joined by MARVEL 1985’s TOMMY LEE EDWARDS in a prelude to DARK WOLVERINE! Logan wants to get the hell out of New York, and he’s in no hurry to get back to San Francisco, either. So he gets on a motorcycle and takes the long way home. But home for Logan isn’t in a secret underground headquarters—it’s in a fight, with his hands wrapped around the neck of somebody who’s got it coming.
When Logan confronts Junior, Horror-Show's son, he discovers an elaborate plot. Junior is working with Ram, who is trying to oust Horror-Show as leader of the Burnin' Sons biker gang so he can deal drugs again. When Logan finds out that Junior doesn't want any help, he tells him to leave town and pretend that he's dead until he's ready to change. Making hs way back to Horror-Show's bar, he tells him that his son was dead. After hearing such, Horror-Show snaps and shoots him at close range. Later, Logan wakes up: his body dumped in the woods. He finds the man responsible for this whole mess - Ram - and after killing him, Logan leaves town.
In a bar, Spider-Man meets up to talk to Logan to see what he's being doing with himself. Specifically, running him into the ground. At first, Logan is not the least bit receptive to the thought and goes so far as to toss Spider-Man out of the bar. Before he can, however, they find common ground when three men enter and try to rob the bar. Once the bar has been cleared out, Logan confides in Spider-Man that he is bothered by his memories and that h's trying to change his past, no matter if it kills him or not. Before they can continue the conversation any further, Logan gets a call from Cyclops and leaves again.
When Logan confronts Junior, Horror-Show's son, he discovers an elaborate plot. Junior is working with Ram, who is trying to oust Horror-Show as leader of the Burnin' Sons biker gang so he can deal drugs again. When Logan finds out that Junior doesn't want any help, he tells him to leave town and pretend that he's dead until he's ready to change. Making hs way back to Horror-Show's bar, he tells him that his son was dead. After hearing such, Horror-Show snaps and shoots him at close range. Later, Logan wakes up: his body dumped in the woods. He finds the man responsible for this whole mess - Ram - and after killing him, Logan leaves town.
In a bar, Spider-Man meets up to talk to Logan to see what he's being doing with himself. Specifically, running him into the ground. At first, Logan is not the least bit receptive to the thought and goes so far as to toss Spider-Man out of the bar. Before he can, however, they find common ground when three men enter and try to rob the bar. Once the bar has been cleared out, Logan confides in Spider-Man that he is bothered by his memories and that h's trying to change his past, no matter if it kills him or not. Before they can continue the conversation any further, Logan gets a call from Cyclops and leaves again.
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Wolverine #74 Review
Reviewed by SUNMAN on June 10, 2009. SUNMAN has written 2 reviews. His/her last review was for A Mile In My Moccasins: Part 2/ One-Percenter: Part 2. 4 out of 4 users recommend his reviews. |
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Ok... I have to say it.
This was the best Wolverine story in a -long- time.
Sure, Old Man Logan is fun, but this story actually dealt with the man behind the mask. It's been a -really- long time since we had one of those.
Kudos to the writer.
Incredible writing. I actually felt sorry for Logan at the end of it.
This was the best Wolverine story in a -long- time.
Sure, Old Man Logan is fun, but this story actually dealt with the man behind the mask. It's been a -really- long time since we had one of those.
Kudos to the writer.
Incredible writing. I actually felt sorry for Logan at the end of it.
I might as well be delivering a eulogy for this series. It will continue in a different form, but for all intents and purposes this particular Wolverine book has reached its end. The way this book ends is very fitting for this series. For most of the series each issue read more like a disjointed series of separate stories rather than a continuing saga. This issue is also disjointed, but still very enjoyable. In fact even if you have never read this series you could still pick this issue up and read it as a one-shot in my opinion.
This issue offers the second halves of the two stories presented in Issue #73. In one part, Logan continues on his quest to help out an old friend and prevent a bloody biker war. In the other, Wolverine's insanely busy schedule as a superhero is explored. the two stories have nothing to do with each other. Frankly, the story would read much better if the first story were fully contained in Issue #73 and the second in Issue #74. It hurts the overall comic by having both stories broken in half.
In my opinion the first story, the biker one, is definitely the weaker of the two. Daniel Way's story is something that could just as easily been made into a Punisher story. Though this is hardly the first time this could be said about a Wolverine comic, its rarely a good thing when two characters become so easily interchangeable. At times Ways story recalls the glory days of Greg Rucka's run, but for the most part it lacks the emotional impact. Heck, I had to go back and reread the first half just to remind myself what was going on.
I liked tommy Lee Edward's art. However, I am not sure Edwards was the best choice. The tone he creates isn't one bested suited for the story. I think a more grimy/gritty artist who has worked on Wolverine in the past would have been better suited. Than sometimes Edwards also has difficulty distinguishing his characters from one another. I mean when you have a cast of exclusively blurry hairy men, its even hard for Logan to stand out. I felt this becomes a serious problem at the end of the story, when an apparently major revelation is wasted because a characters identity is obscured.
The part I enjoyed most of this comic and whee the real attraction of this issue lies is in the second segment by Jason Aaron and Adam Kubert. This half of the story is lacking the sheer visual variety of the first, but it's still very expertly laid out an a nice flashback to Wolverine stories of yeas past.
We get a cool scene of Wolverine, Spiderman and Bucky Cap throwing down with the wrecking crew. Than we see a panel of Peter Parker lying on the couch watching the news on X-men Wolverine and Cyclops. The next panel we have photographer Peter Parker at a crime scene where a anti mutant gang was slaughtered. There Peter spies a familiar claw mark on the wall.
Having established why Wolverine has been running himself ragged lately, Aaron attempts to dive deeper into Logan's mindset. To do so he brings and Spiderman. This segment unfortunately comes on the heels of Amazing Spiderman #597 the last issue of Spider-Man: Brand New day extra. I love Just like Joe Kelly did, Aaron depicts Logan and Spidey. I especially loved the thought boxes of Spider-Man entering the bar to talk to Logan. The Firelord ones were hilarious. Just like Joe Kelly did, Aaron depicts Logan and Spidey waxing philosophical inside a bar. Of course, Logan is in a mood and does not want to take advice from Spidey, and just when the inevitable fight between the two is about to break out, three not so lucky robbers burst in. The burglars reactions are priceless. Now the ending may have been a little trite, but the dialogue was funny and snappy, and Aaron's analysis of his hero rings true. The Wolverine/Spider-Man dynamic is quickly becoming one of my favorites among Marvel heroes, and that's precisely because of stories like this.
Though these past two issue have been fairly uneven in terms of overall quality, I'd say Wolverine Vol. 3 has been given a proper send-off. For the future I am keeping my fingers crossed for aSpider-Man and Wolverine series. Superman and Batman have one so why not two of Marvel's most popular characters?
