Wolverines #2 Review

writer: Charles Soule / artist: Alisson Borges / Marvel Comics Who are the Wolverines? They’re Mystique, Sabretooth, X-23, Lady Deathstrike, and Daken – 5 of Wolverine’s closest associates who are being coerced into finding the his dead, adamantium-covered body. Dr. Cornelius, the madman who created the original Wolverine, embedded a kill clock inside 5 of his test subjects who are in search of Wolverine’s body, as it holds the key to saving their lives. Their names are Neuro, a “brilliant psychopath,” Endo, a “troubled speedster,” Skel, a super-strength man physically addicted to violence, Junk, who has “animal abilities,” and Shogun, an ex-soldier fused with a demon ninja’s spirit. As a follow-up to the Death of Wolverine mini-series, Wolverines has begun moderately, at best. Issue 1 was largely uneventful; that is, until the last pages that introduced Sinister in the hunt for Wolverine’s corpse. What does he want with Wolverine’s corpse? What can he do with it? His possession of Wolverine’s body was the most intriguing part of the series, and that continues through this issue. The new characters are rather uninteresting, and since the story plot is based around their quest for survival, it’s hard to care much about the story as well. It’s hard to tell whether the problem is with the characters, or trying to introduce so many at one time. The result is the same, though – you don’t get a good sense of any of them.

Readers are given insight into Shogun as his two personaliti…