Wolverine: Typhoid's Kiss

Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #109–116

by Ann Nocenti

Wolverine and Typhoid Mary are back - to exact vengeance on those who saw fit to manipulate their imdns, and to crush "the experiment" once and for all.

Genres: Marvel, Comics, Superheroes, Graphic Novels, Comic Book, X Men

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Ann Nocenti is most noted as an editor for Marvel Comics, for whom she edited New Mutants and The Uncanny X-Men. She made her comics writing debut on a brief run of Spider-Woman (#47-50) and subsequently wrote a long run of Daredevil (1st series) #236-291 (minus #237) from 1986 to 1991, directly following on from Frank Miller's definitive Born Again storyline. She also wrote the 1986 Longshot limited series for Marvel, and in the same year produced the Someplace Strange graphic novel in collaboration with artist John Bolton. She wrote "the Inhumans Graphic Novel" in 1988. In 1993, she wrote the 16-issue run of Kid Eternity for the DC Comics imprint Vertigo.

In Incredible Hulk #291, published in September 1983 (cover date January 1984), Ann Nocenti made a cameo appearance, talking to Dr. Bruce Banner, in a history written by Bill Mantlo, drawn by Sal Buscema and inked by Carlos Garzón and Joe Sinnot. That time Ann Nocenti was Assistant Editor for Larry Hama on Incredible Hulk and X-Men.

She is noted for her left-wing political views which, particularly during her run on Daredevil, caused some controversy among some fans who didn't agree with her politics.

She created several popular characters, including Typhoid Mary, Blackheart, Longshot and Mojo, and wrote the 1998 X-Men novel Prisoner X.

Although Nocenti left comic books in the '90s after the industry sales collapsed, she later returned to the field, penning stories such as 2004's Batman & Poison Ivy: Cast Shadows.

In Ultimate X-Men, a reimagination of the X-Men comic, the character Longshot, who was invented by her, has the civil name Arthur Centino. His last name, Centino, is an anagram of Nocenti and a homage to Nocenti. The name Arthur is for the co-creator of Longshot Arthur Adams who was Ann Nocenti's artist on the Longshot Mini Series.

She edited High Times magazine for one year (2004) under the name Annie Nocenti and is the former editor of the screenwriting magazine Scenario.

Reviews

[Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.2/5

So Logan's tracked down by a serial killer who appears to have some serious schizoid issues, claiming to have a receiver in his brain that tells him to kill people. When he mentions 'The Project,' however, he earns Logan's attention--and eventually gets him to meet Mary, a sweet, innocent young woman with a seriously twisted personality hidden behind that pretty face of hers.

Typhoid Mary--a fierce, seductive monster with an ax to grind for some mind control scientists, and she's bringing Logan along for the ride. Logan wants the other Mary, but how does he get the Mary he started to fall for separated from Typhoid Mary, when they are essentially the same person?

Well then. What a predicament.

I like the art. It's very cool, very surreal. Sometimes it's a little hard to follow, or a little too dark to make out a few details here or there. The story is pretty standard, so there was that. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it as a whole, but I think I liked it.

[Dast Cover · Rating 4 out of 5]

El beso de la Tifoidea en negro.

[Ribrarian Not · Rating 4 out of 5]

Libro de historietas con ISBN propio. Parte de la saga de María Tifoidea.