Continuing the brutal story of the Winter Soldier, A.K.A. the Ultimate Wolverine!
The Opposition may have finally helped Logan reclaim his identity! But to what lengths will Colossus, Magik and Omega Red go to keep their prized weapon? Don’t miss Ultimate Magik revealing the shocking extent of her power! But as the Opposition infiltrates a facility holding a group of high-powered mutants, the Winter Soldier’s handler has a sinister plot to destroy them once and for all.
This felt rushed and not that good but the art was kinda cool. I like how it shows Logan joining the resistance and fighting back but feels like it was just 6 issues and the writer had to compress it and couldnt get a lot of story and focus done like exporing members of the resistance and Logans equation with them specially Kitty so when they die the impact doesn't happen but the relation with Sabretooth is fun and like a cool twist with them being friends here.
The issue vs Archangel was good but felt like compressed and so the impact is not there and specially the fight vs Omega Red should have been big like he is one of the main boss and its just few pages but then again I guess they had to get it over in 6 issues and like I was hoping they would explore Logans reaction to killing his friend Kurt but they didnt do it..
But the end becomes emotional with what happens to the resistance and Logan out for revenge vs his captors and it ends the way you expect it to.. the ending is also like that and the next volume will probably tie into the Endgame event which I am.. ehh.. nvm this volume was not good compared to what it could have been given the artist it had and the freedom the writer had to choose whichever X-Men/mutant he wanted but oh well.
This series takes any goodwill or any form of interesting storytelling the first volume may have set up and just throws it all away. This is probably a pretty good comic for people who don’t read a lot of Marvel and don’t really have high expectations for these Ultimate books, but I’ve read a lot of Marvel and I had if not expectations then at least a standard of quality and ambition that the other books set up. This is just a mediocre Wolverine comic that feels free to be even more annoyingly insistent on tragedy and misery than they usually are because the writer’s been given a lot of leeway with these characters in this alternate universe. There’s so many decisions, especially in the last two issues, that just induce bewilderment and frustration in me. THAT’S what you’re doing? That was your plan for these characters, for this story? This what you’re setting up for the final arc? This comic doesn’t work on a self-contained level and I can’t see how it’s going to tie in to the bigger picture at all in a meaningful or interesting way at this point. At least the art is good.
Alas the Marvel editorial caught up to this one and wanted the creative team to “water it down” for the masses. What started as a mystery thriller became a regular comic book with Wolverine explaining his feelings in case the decompression-hating-80-IQ-regular-comic-book-readers can understand wtf they’re looking at. This one stung because of what is clearly a betrayal of the original intent set in the first 6 issues. That said did have its moments which is why it’s get 3 stars instead of 1. Despite the comic book-y monologues and exposition dialogue, the pivotal action sequences were excellent and Alessandro Capuccio’s killed it despite the severely inferior script. Not every comic had to be a 20 min long read ffs let the medium do something different for a change
they kinda lost me with this one, the first volume i felt was amazing but this one was rushed and lost a lot of what made the first volume special. this book would have easily benefited from being apart of the initial line of books because it fall under the weight of the time constraints these books have been given for endgame.
This was OK. It's super compressed. Wolverine is now part of the Opposition fighting the Rasputins. It all goes how you expect with no surprises. The most I can say about it is "Meh".