wolvie2020
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squeekness said:I don't know if it's the worst but it is disappointing. I was hoping for better, but still I am bad and buy it anyway, hoping it will improve. I keep thinking that if I stop I will miss something relevant to the Logan saga.
I agree that the story is waaaay to stretched out, but nonetheless, it IS a good book, and has had good moments, nice twists, gritty dialogue, and has been a very Woverine story. Not only that, it did fit into continuity in Civil War issue 1. (I have no idea where it fits into after that though???)
The only thing I think that Dillon made a mistake with, was to spend SUCH a long time at the start with the introduction of the "Murumasa blade,' 'Nuke,' and his son. The reason why I think this, is seeing that as it was an origin story, that is supposed to be tying up SO many convulted loose ends, to inrtroduce so many new storylines before even approaching the past is quite a deterrent for longtime fans, like myself.
Saying that, the opposing side to this is, maybe because it was SUCH a convoluted mess, that it needed A LOT MORE story to make it fit together.
And I also think that people are being somewhat confusingly harsh on some bits... Although it's taken a while, we ARE finally haveing old loose ends being approaced. We've got some major stuff being approached, HOW Logan's relationship as a mutant began with the government. The VERY LONG TIME dangling plot thread that has been, 'Who is Logan's son?' We now know why the hell he has constantly said, 'I'm the best there is at what I do...' so obsessively. And most importantly, (I thought a lot more people would be happy about this,) we're FINALLY having some closure to the story of Omega Red and the carbonadium synthesiser that Jim Lee introduced so many years ago. And it fits together fine. It's also great to see Jubilee back again.
I do agree it's taking too long, but the story IS getting there, I'm just hoping he stays on track and gives us much more closure on many things. The whole plot for the carbonadium synthesiser as bugged me for many years, and I'm so happy to see it come together. We have Maverick here too, in a major way, and we also now have Logan, Creed, and Mavericks' relationship truly fleshed out, and it makes much more sense, rather than raising more quesitons. We now know a lot more answers to the turning points that they've had in their lives due to the fact that they were once a team, all with their own agendas. (We also now know, that he won't be getting into the Creed/Logan relationship too heavily, that's now been passed onto Loeb, I wonder if that screwed with what Dillon had planned?)
Like I said before, it took Dillon a while, but there is a HUGE messed to be cleared up, and maybe he felt he needed to add a lot to fix a truly humongously massive mess, (we all know how big the mess is as well.) And just look at all the stuff I said above, he's covered that in just a few issues, and I'm sure I'm missing other minor details that he's covered about Wolvie's past, (like why he's so obsessed with Japan.)
It's not the best thing ever, and it's not started the way we all thought it would, but it is a MASSIVE job, and I do think he's doing well so far. If anything, the book is getting more and more readable with every issue, and I am having fun. Let's just hope it all pays off, I have a feeling it will.
