First of all . . look at that amazing Mike Deodato Jr. cover. That's beautiful . . and classic Wolverine. Luckily, we're also graced with his pencils on the inside. We actually get a double dose of him this month because he also does the Wolverine Annual, 'Roar' . . which I'll be getting to in a little bit here. I've been enjoying Steve Dillon's take on this character through the first 24 issues of this book, but . . there's just something about Mike art that's magical. Plus, Danial Way has to be thrilled to death that he's got him on this book. Even if it is only for an issue or 2. This issue we're still dealing with the whole 'son of Wolverine' thing . . Daken, but we get some flash-back's of parts of Logan's life that have led up to this. It's all rather informative, but what is really awesome is Mike's take on the whole Hulk / Wendigo fight that took place when Wolverine was first sent out into the public. These pages were brilliant. Plus we find out that this fight was actually Logan's last mission for Romulus . . well, last mission that he actually went along with. It turns out that he was sent to try to contain these characters so that he would attract the attention of Charles Xavier. His real mission was to infiltrate the X-Men. Hence the title of the upcoming storyline . . Original Sin. He's thinking of all of this because right now he's heading there for their help with Daken. He thinks that Emma may be able to help. Things should be getting pretty interesting, pretty fast. I hope you got your seat-belt on.
Original Sin is one of the few Marvel related things I am actually looking forward to nowadays.
ReplyDeleteI've always kind of liked the idea of Daken, but I liked the idea of Vulcan too, and that didn't turn out how I'd hoped...
Anyway, I still can't get into the whole thing with Romulus... It's a REAL stretch to say that all these years this mysterious character has been out there pulling at Logan's strings, and that NOBODY has noticed. Hopefully, Original Sin finally clears up who/what Romulus is.