Welcome to Toronto Mr. Doop and Wolverine.
Established in the X-Force run of Peter Milligan and Mike Allred, Doop and Wolverine are friends and have a back history. Giving tribute to Wolverine's Canadian roots Peter Milligan wrote a two issue mini and recruited two of Toronto's finest: Darwyn Cooke and J. Bone.
What I enjoyed about this story is that it is a Detective story. From some reason unknown to me, Peter Milligan has established himself as a great writer early in his career at DC comics, then falls of the radar for a few years, then became one of Marvel's most experimental writers. The X-Statix work is very experimental and with former Vertigo editor Axel Alonso, Peter Milligan would keep the Vertigo quality in many of his Marvel work. The DC lover in me likes the direction of this detective story for finding the Pink Mink.
There is subtle Toronto nods in the book that people outside of Toronto wouldn't book, such as the "Dragon Lady Comics" shop, which was once Darwyn Cooke's local comic shop when he lived near the Little Italy area of Toronto. The Comic would confirm it being in Toronto with Wolverine and Doop walking the streets of Toronto and seeing the CN Tower.
As someone who has a walked the same streets that are look like the inspirations to the art, this comics is fun to read. Darwyn's pencils with J. Bone's inks give off a Cartoony look and nothing screams Canadian comic more then the Cartoony look. Many of Canada's top talent has that Cartoon reputations because of the contributes guys like Darwyn Cooke and Ty Templeton have given to the DC Animated Universes, like Batman.
This mini series was a fun read from me because I live in Toronto. Other members on comicvine to score this book gave it low, so many they had an anti-Canada bias? I would be nice to know what they didn't like, I personally enjoyed it.
Cheers
- Silkcuts