Wolverine Annual #1 - Marvel

This was a pretty good annual. I don't think it was as good as the Wonder Woman annual. But, it's in the top 5 for the summer. Not sure who the writer is, Gregg Hurwitz. But he turned in a pretty compelling story. Marcelo Frusin is the artist, and he did a fantastic job. The feel of the art perfectly fit the mood that the writer was trying to create. Basically we follow this guy from youth to adulthood. He starts out hopeful and idealistic, as many of us do. But slowly, piece by piece, as time passes, he crosses line after line after line. Until, eventually, he's at a place that he never thought he'd be. Doing things he never thought he'd do. When he did do bad, he'd try to go to the church to absolve his sins. But eventually he tells himself, "There is no salvation for losers. I stopped talking to the Church. Because the Church stopped talking back." Then, in the end, when his actions bring on the kind of retribution only the Wolverine can dispense, all he can think is "There will be time. There will be time. Time to clean up my act. Time to straighten my ways. Or am I past forgiveness? There will be time. There will be time. All who draw the sword will die by the sword. There will be time. There must be time. Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. There will be time." Of course that what he thought as Wolverine takes that option away from him. No more time for him. The moral of the story . . . clean up while you can, because you never know when the time will be past and you can't. Really, and inspiring book.