This is a sixty-four page bookshelf one-shot, reprinting the Wolverine serial from Marvel Comics Presents #85-#92. Cyber, a villain with Adamantium coated skin arrives in Madripoor, as Wolverine befriends a wolf in the woods. Soon, Wolverine confronts Cyber outside of General Coy’s office and is left hallucinating. He recovers in the wilderness, while Cyber offers both General Coy and Tiger Tyger a batch of hallucinogenic drugs. Wolverine eventually summons the courage to face Cyber again.
Peter Allen David, often abbreviated PAD, was an American writer of comic books, novels, television, films, and video games. His notable comic book work includes an award-winning 12-year run on The Incredible Hulk, as well as runs on Aquaman, Young Justice, SpyBoy, Supergirl, Fallen Angel, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099, Captain Marvel, and X-Factor. His Star Trek work included comic books and novels such as the New Frontier book series. His other novels included film adaptations, media tie-ins, and original works, such as the Apropos of Nothing and Knight Life series. His television work includes series such as Babylon 5, Young Justice, Ben 10: Alien Force and Nickelodeon's Space Cases, which he co-created with Bill Mumy. David often jokingly described his occupation as "Writer of Stuff", and he was noted for his prolific writing, characterized by its mingling of real-world issues with humor and references to popular culture, as well as elements of metafiction and self-reference. David earned multiple awards for his work, including a 1992 Eisner Award, a 1993 Wizard Fan Award, a 1996 Haxtur Award, a 2007 Julie Award and a 2011 GLAAD Media Award.
After reading MAXX, I was... hungry for some more Sam Keith. The story on this is a bit weak, essentially Wolverine battles some guy named Cyber who's pretty much an evil version of himself.
The Marvel universe would be terrifying to live in when you think about it. Wolverine just happens to have gone to high school with some guy that ends up being a hulking supervillain.
Yikes! I clearly didn't remember is story at all. I'm currently re-reading what I have of Wolverine's appearance in as close to chronological Orde ras I can get. I had read this story when it was first publish in the pages of Marvel Comics Presents, and I don't remember it brig this awful. Peter David usually rises above the typical dren of comic-book cliches, not so here. To be honest, there are a couple of interesting bits, but overall it's just a mess, and the art doesn't help. I often like non-traditional art (I am a huge fan of Jack Kirby and a great admirer of Steve Ditko after all) but this stuff did nothing to enhance the story and instead made the narrative's short-comings stand out like a grizzly bear in a herd of white sheep.
A pretty weird story! So a villain calling Himself cyber is trying to set up a drug operation, he needs to take out the competition, Wolverine gets involved. Cyber is what you can call Wolverines high school bully(if that's possible) so in way this is a get back at my high school bully revenge story? I don't know, overall this was okay.
Edición española con el Wolverine de Sam Kieth. Traduce Marvel Comics Presents 85~92 y 100. O sea, las sagas Lobezno ¡Sediento de sangre! que da título al libro y Sueños de Muerte.
Living as part of the criminal underworld in Madripoor, Logan discovers that a feared enemy has arrived in the city looking to seize control of that underworld. He is then forced to confront his own fear and half-remembered past as he tackles Cyber, the man with the adamantium skin.
Here's the short version; I don't like Madripoor as a setting, I didn't like Cyber as the antagonist, I hated the misguided attempts at humour between Tyger Tiger and General Coy, and I really didn't like Sam Keith's artwork. So, here's the even shorter version; I didn't like this book.
This already short story is made up of fragments from eight separate issues of 'Marvel Comics Presents' and therefore really struggles to hold together a cohesive narrative, as well as it being painfully obvious that this was B- or C-story in an anthology comic.
Honestly, I can't think of a single thing I liked about this book (except, perhaps, that is WAS short).
Striking figures and staging from Sam Kieth over a thin and uninspired setup by Peter David. Perhaps a vehicle sturdy enough for the two to experiment within the 8-page confines of Marvel Comics Presents, but reads mostly today as an artifact of the style-over-substance storytelling that all but defined superhero comics of the 90's.
Lo leí en la edición española que traducía esta saga más otras historias cortas que quizás en USA no se recopilaron. Lo marco porque GR es una garcha y desde que separaron las ediciones me tira error en la española, pero seguro que eventualmente lo relea en aquella.
Parece mentira, no? Veintiochomil meses de blog y nunca reseñé un comic de Peter David, el querido Gordo, uno de los guionistas fundamentales del comic yanki de los ´90, que hoy no sólo conserva casi intacta su vigencia, sino que además sigue teniendo bochas de fans. Pero bueno, acá está el Gordo, con un comic de hace 20 años, originalmente serializado de a ocho paginitas por quincena en la revista Marvel Comics Presents. El guión de Blood Hungry es 100% mainstream: sencillo, redondito, con la ventanita del final abierta para que el villano pueda volver, y con un par de escenas bastante emotivas, como para que la machaca no quede tan expuesta, para que el conjunto parezca un poco menos cabeza. Acá nos espera el Wolverine de Madripoor, el que opera por afuera de la órbita de los X-Men (aunque luce el traje amarillo y marrón, que nunca debió haberse sacado) y que se transa a Tiger Tyger, una sensual capo-mafia con mínimos códigos a la hora de controlar los negocios turbios de la islita. Tyger parece buena en comparación con el General Coy, el otro líder del hampa de Madripoor, que no tiene el más mínimo reparo a la hora de ganar guita por zurda. Y los dos parecen carmelitas descalzas cuando entra en escena Cyber, un hijo, nieto y bisnieto de puta, que viene a ofrecer un poderosísimo alucinógeno, que le dará a quien lo controle la manija definitiva sobre el crimen de Madripoor. Hete aquí que (en un giro típico de esta época) Wolverine y Cyber se conocen de hace mil años, y tienen en su pasado una historia muy heavy (que David intencionalmente narra en flashbacks muy borrosos, cuando Wolvie está bajo los efectos del alucinógeno), en la que el canadiense se llevó la peor parte, lejos. Ahora es hora de vengarse, pero claro, no cualquiera le gana a Cyber. El combate entre los dos amos del adamantium va a ser bravísimo, y se va a resolver con un as que David pelará de abajo de la manga, pero de modo lícito, porque nos mostró còmo y cuándo se lo guardaba. El libro abre y cierra con dos escenas muy lindas, con lo más parecido a un vuelo poético que se le puede pedir a un comic de Wolverine, y lo más atractivo del desarrollo son (como suele suceder en los comics del Gordo) los diálogos. El General Coy y Tiger Tyger se llevan los mejores bocadillos, pero Cyber y Logan también tiran muy buenos retruques, chistes y comentarios ingeniosos. Digno y todo, el guión palidece por completo frente al dibujo. Porque acá explota Sam Kieth, y cuando explota Sam Kieth se va todo al carajo y más allá. Lo que hace acá el creador de The Maxx es indescriptible. Exagera groseramente la anatomía, lleva a los extremos las expresiones faciales, se cuelga con unos detalles imposibles, unos cross-hatchings enfermizos, tramitas, texturitas, los pelitos de Wolverine, las roturas de la ropa… Kieth no mezquina nada y sobredibuja a morir, pero en su estilo bizarro y pasado de rosca. Sólo el rostro de Tiger Tyger muestra alguna pretensión de realismo. El resto, pasa todo por el distorsionado prisma de esta bestia del dibujo. Y si se va a la mierda en las secuencias normales, imaginate lo que pela cuando nos muestra los recuerdos de un Wolverine drogado con el alucinógeno de Cyber. Surrealismo es poco. Kieth además juega muchísimo con la narrativa. Abre casi todos los episodios de 8 páginas con splash-pages monumentales, lima en algunas composiciones tanto en las luchas como en las escenas más tranqui, y a la vez mecha páginas donde la narrativa es ajustadísima, como un mecanismo de relojería, que son esas donde más se luce el infalible timing para la comedia del Gordo David. Visualmente, Blood Hungry es una salvajada de enorme belleza plástica. Me lo imagino en blanco y negro, o recoloreado con las técnicas actuales, o pintado en acuarelas por el propio Kieth, y me derrito de la emoción. Sin dudas, este fue el trabajo que le levantó el perfil a Kieth y lo convirtió en un favorito de la hinchada, con luz verde para emprender obras mucho más jugadas (como The Maxx, claro) y vender fortunas. No lo pongo en la lista de los imprescindibles, pero si sos fan de Peter David, de Sam Kieth, o de Wolverine, seguro ya lo tenés y ya lo subiste a un pedestal del cual se complica bajarlo, incluso 20 años después.
this was an excellent throwback to the early 90s illustration style of my childhood. I don't think the name matches up very well, for as great of a mini story that it is, I would've expected a more apt title.
Obra autoconclusiva de Lobezno en la época de Madripur, por lo que debes conocer un poco en contexto de esa etapa para sacar al máximo el jugo a la historia. No obstante, el dibujo de Kieth en Lobezno es lo suficientemente atractivo, con sus luces y sombras típicas de este autor, como para poder valorarla como "obra a tener en la colección". Ahora al leerla de corrido me ha gustado más que en episodios sueltos.
I reread this after having read The Maxx, and it feels like a Maxx prototype in the guise of a Wolverine comic. I am not sure how much David wrote vs how much he asked Kieth what he wanted to draw.
Using some hallucinogenic's that work pretty fast, Wolverine is sent to American Graffiti on acid and has a wienermobile fight with Cyber (but Wolvie's is not as big as the blood sausage). Then there is a regular fight with some very weird poses. Wolverine's mask keeps growing larger and more angular (practice for Maxx's teeth maybe?). If you like Kieth's work then this is great, if it is a little too grotesque for you, then this will be too weird to get behind. I liked it more after being inured to him by The Maxx.
Sam Keith is an extremely adjacent artist to my main interests, but never someone I was a direct fan of.
He colored Mage, drew the first five issues of Sandman, and created The Maxx, which was a seminal independent series. He also appears to be one of the first comic artists I was exposed to....
So, the Wolverine arc is written by Peter David and the art here is somewhat standard fare, heavily stylized but in a way I don't care much for (But it does have Wolverine being a short little meatball, which resonates with me on a six year old level).
And then there's a climactic dream sequence where Wolverine and his arch, race each other in literal Weinermobiles trying to impress a woman.
I love this little book. The art by Sam Keith is as interesting as I expect from him and the writing is so 90s that it works. Might not be for everyone but I enjoy it. I find cyber to be an interesting and fun villain and I like the general vibe that this book gives off.
En su momento me encantó lo psicodélico del dibujo y lo dura que era la trama en comparación a otros comics de mutantes de la época. Cuando lo relea seguro le escriba su correspondiente reseña.
I think Sam Keith is one of those vastly underrated comic artists, like Chris Bachalo ... the interiors of this book are phenominal, the story by PAD is one of the mill Wolverine schlock.