SHARPEN YOUR CLAWS FOR ROUND TWO OF WOLVERINE’S ALL-NEW ALL-STAR BLOODY BATTLES! The adventures of WOLVERINE continue in the visceral black, white and blood red format! Legendary X-scribe Chris Claremont re-teams with the incomparable Salvador Larroca to bring LOGAN back to Madripoor as PATCH, where he and KATE PRYDE face their toughest battle yet. Then, Saladin Ahmed and Kev Walker build a life-or-death catch-22, courtesy of the maniacal ARCADE, that will force Wolverine to make a life-or-death decision! Vita Ayala and Greg Land put Wolverine on a mission to stop a “cure” for the X-gene where he’ll cross paths with his deadliest foe: SABRETOOTH! Wolverine: Black, White Blood #2
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Beautifully drawn and colored especially the first two stories.
I think the overarching theme of this issue is Wolverine's humanity (to save innocent lives or his friends) overcoming his animal instinct (to kill his enemies). I like X-books like this, that says something about the character instead of just splashing blood and gore on as many pages as possible. Kindle Edition A solid four for a comic that's a third illustrated by Greg Land?
Well, that's just how good the other two thirds are... Look, if nothing else, the first story here makes it clear just how much Land owes to the colourists who usually make him look good(ish). His art here, though, without the crutch of good colouring, is just weak. The story also suffers from what the first issue's stories suffered from...it's no more than Wolverine does the stabby, and those kind of stories bore me.
The rest of the book, however, that's a different story. The second story, written by Saladin Ahmed and illustrated by Kev Walker, sees Logan captured by Arcade, and having to rescue the waiter who drugged him (because Arcade would have killed him otherwise). The twist being that if Logan kills any of Arcade's robots on the way, the waiter will die sooner. So Wolverine has to try not to do the stabby. Which is a nice twist.
The third story is by Chris Claremont and Salvador Lorraca and co-stars Kate Pryde...so, of course, I loved it. The writing was great and the art was stylish. You see, Land and Larroca both use a lot of photo reference, but Lorraca knows how to do it well. Because he's a great artist who's perfectly capable of drawing without photo reference, it's just a stylistic choice. Whereas with Land...not so much.
So, all in all, a really good comic. Kindle Edition I feel like I have more appreciation for Logan after reading these. I do wish they were able to also copy DC in terms of having more than three stories per issue. Kindle Edition Exactly what it says on the cover.
Great art work. Kindle Edition For Shadow Cat alone Kindle Edition
Vita Ayala ✓ 6 Summary
Fun little short stories and some great art. Kindle Edition Not as great as issue #1, but still good. Kindle Edition 3.75 Kindle Edition