Wolverine (2020-2024) #14

Wolverine (2020) (Single Issues)

by Benjamin Percy, Adam Kubert (Cover Art)

THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS! Stolen goods. A torched ship. A missing sword. Wolverine’s on the case, but what mind games is Solem playing? The new X-villain comes into his own in this arc!

Genres: Comics, Marvel, X Men, Graphic Novels Comics

23 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 28, 2021

About the author

Benjamin Percy is the author of seven novels -- most recently The Sky Vault (William Morrow) -- three short fiction collections, and a book of essays, Thrill Me, that is widely taught in creative writing classrooms. He writes Wolverine, X-Force, and Ghost Rider for Marvel Comics. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in Esquire (where he is a contributing editor), GQ, Time, Men's Journal, Outside, the Wall Street Journal, Tin House, and the Paris Review. His honors include an NEA fellowship, the Whiting Writer's Award, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, the iHeart Radio Award for Best Scripted Podcast, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics.

Reviews

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Marauder has been burnt up and people have been killed and Wolverine is on the case. Dope detective style book. Only issue I have is that I haven’t read any of the Hellfire Gala stuff so I don’t know the lead up to this.

[Emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wolverine is doing his impression of a hard boiled detective and it's pretty enjoyable. There's still a lot he doesn't know and it's intriguing. I'm so glad this wasn't another vampire issue! This week's X-books were pretty meh but this one isn't. I'm here for this kind of story.

Second reading: hard boiled detective isn't as accurate as wild west. Great issue. The Arrakii pirate is big, ugly and violent. And there's a mystery to solve. Emma? Sebastian? Christian? I kinda want it to be Christian

[Tanabrus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finalmente si affronta la questione dei cristalli logici Shi'Ar, arrivati "come richiesto" durante il Gala ma riguardo ai quali Emma sembrava non sapere niente.

Ora sono spariti, la nave bruciata e ormeggiata a Madripoor, il fratello di Emma ucciso e gettato in mare.
E Wolverine è la persona inviata a indagare, pestare sospetti e scovare la verità. E i cristalli.

Una buona atmosfera, Wolverine che fa Wolverine a Madripoor, gli eventi recenti (Arakko) che si mescolano senza problemi con la storia.
Finalmente un buon fumetto tra le letture dell'ultimo mese.

[Brian Garthoff · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am actually somewhat glad with the direction that this issue of Wolverine is going in, but I’m also curious to see if it’s all going to just get lumped in with Percy’s X-Force.

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

7 of 16 on the catch up.

You can always rely on Wolverine! It's actually more a 3.5 than a 4, it wasn't brilliant but good and let Logan be Logan.

The introduction of ANOTHER villain and ANOTHER story arc in Wolverine is frustrating considering there is still 2 or 3 open and ongoing that are constantly being lost in the churn of events and tie ins.

Finish something off for once!!

[Ian Sharman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Madripoor stories rarely grab me, but this one's an exception, as Logan investigates the burning wreck of the Marauder, which has been robbed of its cargo of Shi'ar logic diamonds. By now we know that Percy writes Logan well, but he confirms it again here, as he imbues the ol' Canucklehead with just the right amount of gruff. This Wolverine pulls no punches as he roughs up the harbour master to extract information from him. At the beginning of the Krakoan era Logan was worried that island life might turn him soft...that is very much not the case.

The brief cameo from Emma Frost was enjoyable and I wonder which of them is truly the deluded one when it comes to the nature of the power dynamic between them?

Kubert's art is, of course, gorgeous, but I have to single out the colourist, Frank Martin, for praise, because his colour work is truly gorgeous. His beautifully atmospheric, almost painterly colours compliment Kubert's linework perfectly!

Back in X Of Swords Solem was teased as a new antagonist for Logan and then nothing seemed to come of that, so I'm glad that we finally seem to be getting to that, and I'm very curious to see where this story is going to lead us!

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[Roman Colombo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Emma sends Wolverine on an inverstigation. You only send Wolverine for one reason. Someone needs to die.

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

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