Friday, February 28, 2014

Wolverine Vol. 7: Sabretooth Reborn

This volume kind of disrupts Cullen Bunn's short run on the character.  It is however a chance for Jeph Loeb to tell a sequel to his previous Wolverine story. I have not read the previous Jeph Loeb story Wolverine: Evolution which came out in the previous Wolverine series shortly after Civil War.  Really the only thing you need to know from that story is that Wolverine finally killed Sabretooth.  Like much of Jeph Loeb's Marvel work this is a hit or miss story writing wise the art however is awesome.  Simone Bianchi art brings everything to life in this book & sets more of tone than the writing does.  There were parts of this series that were good like how did Sabretooth come back from the dead.  Which now that I think about it this title raises more questions about that than it answers.  For someone who is unfamiliar with Wolverine's villain Romulus this was a nice introduction.  He comes off as Wolverine if he embraced Magento's ideology with a little bit of Ras Al Ghul thrown in for good measure.  I frankly was just starting to like Bunn's work on Wolverine & this volume just broke that stride to tell a back story that is set prior to any of the events currently going on.  Frankly when it comes to Loeb's work the only time I've really been super impressed with him is when he collaborates with Tim Sale.  Their color series for Marvel is some of the best character work out there.  Another good series of titles by them is the Batman quartet starting with Batman: The Long Halloween.  



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