X-Force - Ain't no Dog #1 - Marvel

I'm a big fan of X-Force and a huge fan of Wolverine's. However, this book seems more like a special Wolverine story than necessarily one of X-Force's. They add a story in the back about James, which completes the X-Force theme, but really . . without it, we would've just had a Wolverine one-shot. That's not really a bad thing, I just think about the marketing decisions sometimes. Anyways, the first story was by Charlie Huston with art by Jafte Palo. I like the way Charlie has crafted this story. Apparently this was a Purifier trap set up for Wolverine. But the story starts after he has come in to it and captured somebody. Later we find out that's really just the beginning of the set-up. The guy he's captured has a chip in his head that fakes that he's a mutant. Not the powers or anything, but as far as Cerebro is concerned, a scan will show a new mutant signature on the screen. Logan's been sent to retrieve the chip. However, some of the Purifiers have also been implanted, but their chips hone in on this guys and send them into a berserker rage. The Purifiers that are lying about on the floor in the beginning were really just cannon-fodder to get Logan in to place. The 100 more that come in afterwards are what's really supposed to kill him. But we all know that Logan doesn't go down that easy. I especially like Jefte's artwork. Some of the panels looked kind of crude and rushed, but then . . there were also some panels that really had a kind of Frank Miller look to them. It appears that Jefte inked his own work, but I'm thinking that with the right inker this would've seemed a lot more like a book of Frank's. The pages with the black & white, with gray washed tones and splashes of vibrant crimson blood, really had that feel to it. Overall I thought it was a nicely crafted tales with just the right amount of ironic humor spread throughout it. I also enjoyed James' story. It was by Jason Aaron with art by Werther Dell'Edera. It was a little more predictable than the lead, but . . it gave us a little insight into James' character.