Wolverine #63 - Marvel

This issue picks up immediately where the last one left off. Wolverine has been asked, by Scott, to go after Raven. They're both really pissed off over the way that she betrayed the X-Men during the whole Mutant Messiah story-line. Not only that, but, they know that she was just trying to save Rogue, but she put the child's life at risk to do it. Anyways, as Logan is searching for her, he's thinking back to the first time they met. It was somewhere in the Mexican desert, almost 90 years ago. They ended up helping each other get out of a jam. Raven recognized the Logan had some talents she may have been able to put to good use, so she took him back to Kansas City with her. Basically she was running scams all over town and was looking for someone to be her muscle . . her enforcer. He's thinking about all of this as he's scouring the mountains of Afghanistan for her. But she's put him in a bad position, and most of the locals see him as " . . the American devil." So they're more than happy to shoot first and ask questions later. "Actually, I'm Canad . . . " He catches up to her once, but it's in a public place, so she eludes him. Then, to protect herself, she finds a whore whom an American politician frequents when he's in the area, and takes her place. When he comes to visit, she kills him, and takes his place. Her thinking is, that she's putting a platoon of Marines between herself and Logan. So, since he's in Iraq, he goes to one of the terrorist cells to ask for help. "I'm here to see Mordad. Tell him it's the infidel who saved his ass from the Russians in '86. Tell him I'm calling in the favor." Jason Aaron is the writer of this book, and Ron Garney is the artist. Ron's been around for quite a while. He's a guy that sometimes I love his stuff, and sometimes it's . . . ok. In this book, however, I do like his pictures. His style and mood is actually perfect for this storyline. He really captures the essence of the old west in Kansas City, and the bleakness of the area in Iraq in the present. I'm not sure what Jason's done, but I like the way he's rolling out this story. I don't quite see what the connection is with the past and present . . . other than the company of Raven . . but I'm sure there's more to it that we just haven't seen yet. Overall, I thought it was a nice book, and story-line, and I'll be interested to see how it all plays out.