ASTONISHING SPIDER-MAN WOLVERINE #1
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PENCILS: Adam Kubert
INKS: Maria-Emiko Macuaga
COLORED BY: Ronan Cliquet
COVER BY: Adam Kubert & Greg Adams
Size: pages
Price: 3.99
Huh.
Without reading any solicits, I was curious what this title would be like. Tied into continuity? Elseworlds? Ultimate Universe? What If? The answer appears to be Elseworldsish. Wolverine and Spider-Man trapped in prehistory. As a one-off story, it’s ok. But I didn’t get to the last page and think “I can’t wait for the next issue.” It was more of a “Well….I certainly just read that. Yeup. Somebody wrote that. Huh.”
I know Jason Aaron is one of the writers that gets raved about on this site, but I find him, at best, mediocre when he’s working on superheroes. Yes, I think Scalped is excellent. But his Wolverine Weapon X series just doesn’t connect with me, I don’t care about Ghost Rider, and his Punisher story was…not bad. And that’s how I felt about this. It wasn’t bad. But I have no interest in reading more of it.
Art: 4 - Very Good
No Devil Dinosaur excitement for you? I really enjoyed the story and thought the way he showed similarities between the two and their mind was pretty cool. To each his own, I jumped at this because I loved his run on Ghost Rider.
I’m with akamuu, Aaron’s superheroe stuff is usually underwhelming. Although I do like his Punisher Max series a lot so far.
Totally with you on Aaron’s marvel work. His arcs on WOLVERINE and WEAPON X have been pretty below average
@cutty I haven’t enjoyed his Wolverine work either. I thought I was somewhat alone there.
@forestjwp: I like dinosaurs, and ape societies, but this one didn’t make me all tingly inside. I’m glad some people are enjoying it, it just wasn’t for me.
@JesseG, cutty & vadamowens: I liked the first issue or two of WeaponX, and thought it had promise, but then it just got…well, underwhelmed really is the best word for it. I hope that changes as his non-superhero work has been superb.
I thought his first Weapon X arc was OK. It started kind of bad but ended well. His second arc was awesome and ended awesome. His Punisher stuff has been kind of "meh" but I think he is trying to hard to be like Ennis. Aaron did a Punisher MAX X-Mas special that was fantastic. Also his Black Panther S.I. stuff was great. I never read his Ghost Rider stuff because Huat’s artwork is terrible. After listening to the podcast I was thinking of picking this up but I might pass.