WOLVERINE #72

Review by: TheNextChampion

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Story: 1 - Poor
Art: 2 - Average
 

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  1. flapjaxx says:
    May 28, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    I always applaud thoughtful negative criticism. Personally I’ve gone through a rollercoaster as far as my opinion of this title goes: I started out liking okay it at issue one, then around part two or three I stopped reading out of boredom, then I picked up issue four or five and basically lambasted it in a review I wrote on here, a review that kind of reads like the one you wrote above, and then a few months laster I came back to it…and slowly I found a new appreciation based on just having fun. I liked this issue.

     "Everyone must be brainwashed on the Bullshit that is ‘Old Man Logan’." This is key. Look at how Marvel’s billed this issue ever since it came out. They’ve forced it down our throats from the cover blurb of the first issue that this is Wolverine’s "all-time greatest" story. Bullshit. That’s bullshit. You’re absolutely right, there’s a lot of brainwashing going on…and that is the right word, brainwashing. Because this story is SO superficial. There’s so little characterization. It’s like Millar thinks "just show a silent panel of Logan feeling sad or feeling pain, and that makes it deep and empathetic, man". Compare the characterization here to what we saw in the great Wolverine stories of the ’80s and ’90s. Barry Windsor-Smith did so much more with the character. So did Claremont. Compared to those things, Old Man Logan is SO damn superficial and nonsensical. It’s a dystopia with ZERO social commentary. At every turn there’s something inexplicable (the kid with the Ant-Man helmet, the idea that Jubilee could have lasted "eight hours" or whatever against Logan) or something cliche (wow, the Red Skull as dictator of America? Nazi’s as the bad guys? Aside from Doctor Doom, pick ANY OTHER character to be the President and you’d have something fresher or more interesting.)

    I like it as an action movie, though. It’s still better than 90% of the other comics out there. It’s at least TRYING to show me something somewhat different and important, so I give it big props for that. We can’t forget how much this series demands that we turn our brains off, though. Seriously, we can’t let things slide on that side. A hierarchy where this Wolverine story is accepted as the "best ever" would only need to a new set of lowered expectations in which Marvel can pass off even more thoughtless stuff as if it were classic material. Maybe some people don’t care, but I do. Put it another way, imagine if a few years Marvel starts telling people that Jeph Loeb’s Hulk is the definitive run, superior to Peter David’s. That’s the track we’ll beon, then, if we let them slide on the Old Man Logan propaganda now. This is a war! A war of taste! I will not go quitely into the night, Marvel! >:-D

  2. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    May 28, 2009 at 3:41 pm

    See I loved this story just as much as anyone did in the beginning. A huge amount of violence, a dystopian future, and countless marvel porn? I’m in!

    But take the lateness aside, this story is so simple and surfacy (and superficial your right flapjaxx) that it’s insulting to the readers. This is exactley like X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Only it has somewhat of a better story and it doesnt have the director causing almost a full year in lateness to direct it. There is no depth in this story; I think if you read this all in one in trade format….It’s gonna read even worse!

  3. Avatar photo WetWork says:
    May 28, 2009 at 3:51 pm

    Regardless of what you thought of the story, it’s hard to believe the art was only "2" worthy.  Is your score impacted by the fact the book is delayed?

  4. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    May 28, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    @Wetwork: A little. But overall it’s just….Eh….I mean it looks good….but nothing that screams ‘This is fucking amazing!’

  5. Avatar photo ScorpionMasada says:
    May 28, 2009 at 8:45 pm

    Average art . . . ahahaha

  6. edward says:
    May 29, 2009 at 8:09 am

    Ok, i’m going to respectfully disagree with you. here’s a counter -point to a few of the things you said

    Firstly, The brain-washing issue. Are you basing this on Marvel’s socilications? Are you really surprised they used hyperbole to sell the book? that’s what they do, it’s like complaining that MacDonalds describe their food as delicious. If other people really dig the book, it’s because they thinks it’s good and dig the book, not Joseph Goebbels up to his old tricks

     the art. You’re right. the book could have been done on time by someone else but than it would have been done by someone else, not McNivan. From a purely technical view-point you have to admit that the art is good. Again, you have to admit that people have every reason to like it.

     Hawkeye. How is that not a cool death? the dude is shot down in a super-soldier drug deal gone wrong by a group of nazi-black makert traders when he was about 65. that’s pretty bad-ass. I even think it oddly suits his character

    the story. yes, it is superficial and surfacey but it is also the seventh issue of an eight issue run. that’s not a surprise, i don’t think you can complain about that one

     

    so, again, i respectfully disagree, no dis-respect meant

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