Savage Wolverine #21 Review

Savage Wolverine #21 finds the young lord Logan smack in the middle of World War 1 as a sergeant in the American army, war-weary & dreaming of a simpler place/simpler time. The issue centers around a seemingly routine mission for he & his battalion involving putting the paws to some Germans, cutting their supply lines & communications, etc. Though a handful of soldiers roll out for the mish’, the bulk of the work is carried out by Logan da Gawd & his fellow mutant squad mate & unlikely companion Sergeant Bellamy (or “Link” as Logan nicknames him in one scene), who’s ability allows him to mind-meld with the German camp’s commanding officer & feed vital intel directly into L’s brain (talk about overcoming handicaps). The real focus of this issue is filling in another blank in Logan’s overwhelmingly murky past & thus further humanizing the legend in the process. Through these time-period vignettes, the reader gets to see these personal social relationships with people outside other melodramatic mutants & megalomaniacal villains. And that’s cool because Wolverine is like the Stone Cold Steve Austin, blue-collar everyman of the homo-superior game & we always get hints about the checkered history, but it’s somewhat fulfilling to see some the dirt big homey had to do in the name of choices that weren’t as black & white then- before the Weapon X experiments & near-apocalyptic story arcs.

Real spit- wasn’t a huge fan of the artwork after th…