This is a review of Wolverine Epic Collection: Madripoor Nights. Wolverine, aka Logan, is one of Marvel’s most popular characters. Something about a guy with nonexistent social skills and a nasty temper resonates with comic readers. Wolverine is a mutant whose abilities include enhanced senses and the ability to heal from almost any wound. He also has metal bones and a set of matching claws that retract and unfurl at his command.
Wolverine is a member of the X-Men, but became so popular Marvel gave him his own series. The setting is Madripoor, a carbon copy of Casablanca. Logan hangs out in a bar dressed in a white tux and eyepatch and tells everyone to call him Patch. He thinks he’s incognito, which is stupid because he’s so recognizable, but it turns out everyone was just pretending not to know him, because you don’t upset a guy with nonexistent social skills and a rotten temper.
The first storyline features a character called Tyger, who wants to be a crime lord. To do so she must kill the current crime lord, who commands a pet succubus and a guy with knives for hands. Wolverine helps Tyger because her brain was scrambled by villains in an issue of the X-Men. Other storylines include a sword that possesses its wielder, an encounter with Mr. Fixit (aka The Hulk), and fledgling crime lord Tyger’s first gang war!
One of the good things about this series is that the writer (Chris Claremont) does a fine job of producing credible villains. As the years passed, Wolverine has gotten more and more powerful, until he became an unstoppable killing machine. Nothing can kill Wolverine, which is dull as dirt. In this graphic novel, Logan gets his ass kicked all over Madripoor.
Anyway, good series with lots of action. Recommended.
Abandoned Places 