Wolverine: Killing

Wolverine: One-Shots

by John Ney Rieber

Wolverine is drawn to a remote region of the Himalayas by a man with psychic powers who plans on breeding her with a a local girl in order to keep his ancient and secluded city alive. Problems arise, however, when Logan finds himself genuinely attracted to the young Serra and Tribune Tane is enraged with jealousy as he wants her for himself and does not want her sullied by an "outsider."

Genres: Marvel, Comics, X Men, Graphic Novels

47 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

John Ney Rieber is an American comic book writer. He has written for the comics The Books of Magic, Captain America, G.I. Joe and Tomb Raider.

Reviews

[Karl Stark di Grande Inverno]

La storia parte bene, poi inciampa a livello di fluidità.
I disegni non mi fanno impazzire, anche se non ci stanno male su una trama così.
Carino, ma nulla di memorabile.

[Matt Graupman]

It seems like some comics writers are so desperate to, I dunno, transcend the medium, like comics aren’t a worthwhile literary endeavor, that they try to juice up their superhero stories with all kinds of flowery language and internal conflicts. Some creators are able to make it work, like Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman, but other writers swing a little too far in that direction and end up becoming sort of eye-rollingly pretentious. John Ney Rieber’s “Wolverine: Killing” one-shot isn’t quite there but it’s CLOSE. This comic works best when it just lets the Canucklehead loose, feeding off of Kent William’s slashes of ink and wash, but loses steam when Reiber tries to take the story to more philosophical places. I don’t want to read about Logan’s existential crisis, I want to watch him go ham in the Himalayas. Really dug the art, though.

[Ian]

Troubling dreams lead Logan to seek out the wilderness of Tibet. There he encounters an isolated community with sinister secrets and is forced to contemplate the balance of surviving versus living, as well as the nature of killing.

This is an enjoyable story of Wolverine taking himself off on a quest to explore the line between his humanity and his animalistic nature, with a weird cult-like Tibetan society thrown in for good measure.
Unfortunately it doesn't really break any new ground. Everything that Logan thinks or deals with here has been done numerous times in other stories and, frankly, often done better.

So, not a bad story but also not a particularly original one either.

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[inhonoredglory]

This one's all mood and introspection and I was eating it up. One of my favorite Logan one-shots for sure. The distorted, expressionistic style is unlike anything I've seen in a Wolverine comic so far, and that art choice lends so much atmosphere and theme to this piece. It touches on some of my favorite things in stories: existential philosophy, brooding guilt, and a dose of supernatural horror. It's a beautifully-rendered dive into Logan's psyche.

[Robert McCallum]

Wolverine goes to the Himalayas and gets caught up with a secluded tribe that leads to him taking on one of its powerful leaders.

Pretty average stuff. The art, story and dialogue are all crafted somewhat abstractly and to me it over does this trying too hard to be more than what it is. It’s like some books can’t just tell a story but need to attempt to transcend the medium etc - this is yet another not very good attempt at this.

Not unreadable though but I won’t be rushing back for a re-read

[Devero]

Credo che Ney Rieber si trovi più a suo agio con altri personaggi, come quelli Vertigo.
Pur non essendo una brutta storia, la narrazione è un poco troppo lenta e pensierosa per essere una storia di Logan. I disegni di Williams sono particolari, ma non particolarmente di mio gusto. Anche qui, forse su altri personaggi avrebbero un effetto maggiore.
Non posso dire di essere soddisfatto, ma la sufficienza questo one-shot la raggiunge.

[Pilipma]

Unconventional art at first but works beautifully for this story. I was pleasantly surprise on how effective it was. There are books out there with great smart stories, twists and big scale plots. This book is different.

Story is small, personal, intimate. It is touching, melancholic and satisfying.

A must buy book for your collection for sure.

[Logan]

Not bad for a wolverine story. The story follows wolverine going to Tibet and finding a small society cut off from the world. There he meets a women he's destined to be with. Villain was pretty cool, he reminded me of Bane from batman, pretty cool fight scenes and ya great book. Highly recommended it! Pretty interesting art to!

[Alberto González]

To react is to survive, yes. But to question is to live.
And so I ask: What are the claws for?...
Besides killing?

About the man and the beast.
The art is amazingly done by the great Kent Williams and the rhythm of the story it's slow but burning constantly.

[Zunaid]

One of the most boring Wolverine stories!!!!