Wolverine Vol. 1: Hunting Season

This is the first volume of the fifth Wolverine series to be put out by Marvel.  This is also a new jumping on point for the character after the Age of Ultron event & the first volume of Paul Cornell's run on the character.  This story is kind of bland for an opening arc of a new series but it does have a great cliff hanger ending, that sets up for the next story arc.  Which is great but this volume as a stand alone leaves a lot to be desired.  First of all the reader is kind of thrown into the middle of the everything from the opening page.  I kind of wish there was a little bit of build up to the department store hostage situation.  The team-up of Wolverine & Nick Fury Jr. seems a little forced & awkward in its execution.  Maybe its the fact that Fury Jr. is so new; that the character hasn't really found a voice yet.  I did like the fact that the big bad of this story arc was from the micro-verse but the lead up to it was kind of clunky.  Overall this isn't a great Wolverine story but I have high expectations for what this story will lead to.  Paul Cornell's entire run is leading up to the Charles Soule written Wolverine story arc entitled The Death of Wolverine.