Storyline: Dangerous Games
Date: June 4th, 2008
Price: $3.99 US
Writers: Simon Spurrier and Rick Remender
Artists: Ben Oliver and Jerome Opena

Synopsis: With bloodsports banned in the UK, a group of overfed Brit Aristos have relocated to the Louisiana forests. Their aim? To pit themselves (aided only by a vast pack of slavering hounds and their own copious wealth) against a truly worthy foe: a single, terrified fox. Sadly for them, there’s more than one furry little critter in the woods tonight…

Opinion: In the new Wolverine comic you actually get two stories.  They both have their good and bad points, though overall they are both enjoyable even if you’re not really a Wolverine fan. I’ll give you some reasons why it’s a good buy and after the break give you some fair warning as to why you shouldn’t spend the money.

Check out my full review after the jump.

First the good stuff…the art in both both parts is unique but good in its own way. I do like the art in the first book a little more because the colors flow together more than in the second section where you have more traditional comic style art. Additionally both stories do a great job on Wolverine’s character, portraying him as a ruthless killer who loves the hunt and won’t tolerate betrayal.  At the same time they show the man inside the animal who wants to learn control of his actions.

A look at why it might not be worth it…

The first book is very confusing the way it’s written it jumps from the present to past to explain Wolverine’s predicament but the jumps keep going.  Instead of showing where Wolverine is now and then jumping into the past to explain how he got there, the story continues to go back into the present interrupting the actual part explaining how he got there! It’s annoying and makes this first book hard to read, my A.D.D. kept kicking in and kept loosing interest because the parts of the present didn’t make sense yet, so I couldn’t feel sympathy, fear, anger, ANYTHING for the hero in the present.

The second book was written better, however the comic should have been published backwards.  This second book starts with Wolverine trying to “find himself” i.e. controlling the animal in him and working on his softer “human” side.  This is all well and good except I just read a story about his true love for the hunt and his total disregard for human life. Ergo the “softer” story should have been published as the first book. So the second book starts out a little boring but gets much better in the end, though it wasn’t long enough for my taste.

Of course you know me, I’m never totally happy but all in all overlooking those couple flaws the comic was a good fun read and ultimately that’s what we’re looking for right?

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