Sunday, April 22, 2007

Comic spot: Wolverine #52


Continuing this story arc by Jeph Loeb, examining the realtionship between Wolverine and his arch nemesis Sabretooth. This is Part 3 of the story arc and both Wolverine and Sabretooth landed in Wakanda the homeland of Black Panther. Storm also makes an appearance here. As to how they landed in Africa then have to search for the previous issue as both of them hop into the x-men jet and crash landed while still walooping each other.
And Wolverine is still having those strange prehistoric dreams here. This time involving prehistoric elephants. Nice representation of elephants art here. Unlike anything I have seen before. Also both Wolverine and Sabretooth continued their spat here with Black Panther also joining in the fracass.

This issue also depicts the first time where Wolverine and Sabretooth confronts each other, not in the old west but in the east instead. That is in Japan. Wolverine are forced into stopping Sabretooth's mad rampage and we get to see Wolvie brandishing a samurai sword. Nice. Overall and engaging issue but where exactly the story leads to remains to be seen, especially connecting those dots with those prehistoric bones and the dreams.

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