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Wolverine Epic Collection
Wolverine Epic Collection, Vol. 8: The Dying Game
Collects Wolverine (1988) #87-100, Wolverine Annual '95, Wolverine: Knight of Terra.
Logan succumbs to the beast within! Wolverine has lost his Adamantium skeleton, and his healing factor is on the fritz, but he's been coping fairly well. That ends now. The dark path that Logan's on is about to cost him his humanity — perhaps forever! As Wolverine heads home, team-ups with Gambit, Deadpool and Ghost Rider all lead to one of the greatest Wolverine/Sabretooth battles of all time — a clash of the titans from which neither escapes unscathed. In the unsettling aftermath, friends rally around Logan, hoping to keep him from succumbing to his animal side as he fights the N'Garai, the Juggernaut, Chimera and more with ever-increasing savagery. But all hope is lost when Wolverine is targeted by the heirs of Apocalypse: Genesis and the Dark Riders!
Logan succumbs to the beast within! Wolverine has lost his Adamantium skeleton, and his healing factor is on the fritz, but he's been coping fairly well. That ends now. The dark path that Logan's on is about to cost him his humanity — perhaps forever! As Wolverine heads home, team-ups with Gambit, Deadpool and Ghost Rider all lead to one of the greatest Wolverine/Sabretooth battles of all time — a clash of the titans from which neither escapes unscathed. In the unsettling aftermath, friends rally around Logan, hoping to keep him from succumbing to his animal side as he fights the N'Garai, the Juggernaut, Chimera and more with ever-increasing savagery. But all hope is lost when Wolverine is targeted by the heirs of Apocalypse: Genesis and the Dark Riders!
434 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 15, 2015
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Larry Hama
1,963 books152 followersLarry Hama is an American writer, artist, actor and musician who has worked in the fields of entertainment and publishing since the 1960s.
During the 1970s, he was seen in minor roles on the TV shows M*A*S*H and Saturday Night Live, and appeared on Broadway in two roles in the original 1976 production of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures.
He is best known to American comic book readers as a writer and editor for Marvel Comics, where he wrote the licensed comic book series G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero, based on the Hasbro action figures. He has also written for the series Wolverine, Nth Man: the Ultimate Ninja, and Elektra. He created the character Bucky O'Hare, which was developed into a comic book, a toy line and television cartoon.
During the 1970s, he was seen in minor roles on the TV shows M*A*S*H and Saturday Night Live, and appeared on Broadway in two roles in the original 1976 production of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures.
He is best known to American comic book readers as a writer and editor for Marvel Comics, where he wrote the licensed comic book series G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero, based on the Hasbro action figures. He has also written for the series Wolverine, Nth Man: the Ultimate Ninja, and Elektra. He created the character Bucky O'Hare, which was developed into a comic book, a toy line and television cartoon.
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January 20, 2016
I just love my fellow Canadian in action!
July 21, 2020
This is a mixed bag. On the one hand, the art is good, and what Logan is going through is interesting, as far as his fight against a personality shift due to his adamantium being extracted. On the other hand, it is repetitive. Every issue is Logan saying oh man I am starting to go feral and some different guest star watching form behind a bush saying oh no he is about to go feral, then they stop the bad guy together and it is no big deal.
Logan does act a bit out of character, and I am not sure it is due to his feral nature or just strained writing. In the Deadpool issue, everyone has to tell jokes and he "skateboards" down a hill on a car door, it is goofy and dumb, but kind of fun, however he shows no care for the taxi driver whose breaks have failed and is careening out of control. Instead he cuts the door off and bails to skate board away.
Another time some bad guy eats a boy then turns into a rat and tellsLogan he can have the boy back if he follows him. No one follows him. It is mentioned way too many more times, with no resolution given.
All of the art s fun '90s craziness. The best piece though is the first page of issue 97 where Kubert makes the environment look like Cyber (whom Logan is hunting). It is subtle, but very effective. The stairs are teeth, the ceiling's shadow is the brow and nose.
Issue 100 has a frustrating bait and switch that also probably yields the silliest thing herein. Wolverine at one point uses his pores to expel something fast enough to drive through his enemies, killing many of them. Where 100 leaves Wolverine is not a place I am excited to continue reading about, but I am ready to be surprised.
Despite everything bad I have said and the low rating, this was the collection I had the most fun reading so far.
Logan does act a bit out of character, and I am not sure it is due to his feral nature or just strained writing. In the Deadpool issue, everyone has to tell jokes and he "skateboards" down a hill on a car door, it is goofy and dumb, but kind of fun, however he shows no care for the taxi driver whose breaks have failed and is careening out of control. Instead he cuts the door off and bails to skate board away.
Another time some bad guy eats a boy then turns into a rat and tellsLogan he can have the boy back if he follows him. No one follows him. It is mentioned way too many more times, with no resolution given.
All of the art s fun '90s craziness. The best piece though is the first page of issue 97 where Kubert makes the environment look like Cyber (whom Logan is hunting). It is subtle, but very effective. The stairs are teeth, the ceiling's shadow is the brow and nose.
Issue 100 has a frustrating bait and switch that also probably yields the silliest thing herein. Wolverine at one point uses his pores to expel something fast enough to drive through his enemies, killing many of them. Where 100 leaves Wolverine is not a place I am excited to continue reading about, but I am ready to be surprised.
Despite everything bad I have said and the low rating, this was the collection I had the most fun reading so far.
November 9, 2024
I feel like I'm being generous with two stars here. I have hated pretty much Larry Hama's entire run on Wolverine. It feels like he wrote seventy issues about a character he didn't truly understand. The pacing is always excruciating, the dialogue is sometimes hilariously awful sometimes just boring, the action is predictable, and even though he's consistently running backstories that arch over a dozen issues, it always feel like the series isn't going anywhere.
There's a ton of continuity and guest appearances but the interactions are always stale and usually reference other stories from the X-books, all of which are more interesting.
The art is often good but the pencillers seem to change every couple of issues, giving the reader a new visual style to try and spruce up the same old story.
There is a "pivotal issue" in this collection involving Sabretooth that effects all of the X-books but it's honestly more interesting to see Sabretooth and Wolverine recuperating from this event in those books without having to see the inciting incident.
I suppose if you've loved Hama's run on Wolverine so far, this is probably ok. I've only enjoyed one issue of his run and that's because it was so terrible that it made me laugh.
There's a ton of continuity and guest appearances but the interactions are always stale and usually reference other stories from the X-books, all of which are more interesting.
The art is often good but the pencillers seem to change every couple of issues, giving the reader a new visual style to try and spruce up the same old story.
There is a "pivotal issue" in this collection involving Sabretooth that effects all of the X-books but it's honestly more interesting to see Sabretooth and Wolverine recuperating from this event in those books without having to see the inciting incident.
I suppose if you've loved Hama's run on Wolverine so far, this is probably ok. I've only enjoyed one issue of his run and that's because it was so terrible that it made me laugh.
March 29, 2018
this covers Wolverine issues 87- 100 &1995 annual. i thought this was a good build up to Wolverine trying to fight the next faze of his mutation while its evolving . Villains were very weak & uninteristing but Wolverines struggles were worth reading threw the end to watch the car crash eventually happen. i give it a 7.5/ 10
May 16, 2017
This is the best of Wolverine Epic Collections I've read! Wolvie without his adamantium and in a feral state is at his best. And the artwork is beautiful! Marvel needs to go back to this kind of art, makes most of what they're doing now look ugly.
January 10, 2026
A feral Wolverine coping with the loss of his adamantium skeleton at the hands of Magneto. Larry Hama isn’t a bad comics writer albeit uneven in his quality. The art is big round and bombastic overall. A fun read!
August 18, 2020
Nostalgic for me, filling in the blanks for a series of comics I'd only partially read. Good art and decent arc.
August 8, 2023
It wasn't but I have to say that by the time I got to the end, I had had my share of it.
January 31, 2017
Maybe a third of the art in this volume is good, the rest is fill-in artists. It's funny how much most of the artists at the time were trying to look like Jim Lee. Not that Jim Lee isn't amazing, because he is. Larry Hama never really got the dialogue from any of these characters to seem authentic, but he did come up with some really fun plots. Wolverine speaks in macho 90's cliches and you might argue that he always spoke like that. But he didn't, just check out some of the old Chris Claremont stuff and even the stuff that Larry Hama was churning out 7 years previous. This is definitely worth a read if you like old X-Men comics, but not the high point.
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