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THE BEST IS BACK! Wolverine been through a lot. He’s been a loner. He’s been a killer. He’s been a hero. He’s been an Avenger. He’s been to hell and back. Now, as the nation of Krakoa brings together all Mutantkind, he can finally be…happy? With his family all together and safe, Wolverine has everything he ever wanted…and everything to lose. Writer Benjamin Percy (X-FORCE, WOLVERINE: THE LONG NIGHT) and legendary artist Adam Kubert (X-MEN, AVENGERS) bring the best there is to his new home!
PLUS: The return of OMEGA RED!
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As someone who hasn’t been a fan of the more 'serious' Dawn of X books like X-Men, X-Force, and New Mutants, and as someone who isn’t a fan of Wolverine, I wasn’t expecting to like this at...
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Good to hear. I own this but haven't read it yet. I kinda don't want to like it too much because I'm not sure if I should be adding more to my pull list, haha!
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Like a lot of people i took a double take at th eprice tag of this issue. It is over sized so no doubt on that basis it is value for money. But it feels a bit cynical. Its not an over sized first issue in that you get double...
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Is this a series or one-shot?
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72 pages though. Less per page if it was 3.99 with 28 pages.
If Marvel was smart they'd give this a spine like DC is doing with their black labels.
Yes but we all know they won't.
Its almost the size of 3 issues in one. Dont people ever check the info and do research into it or do they just always go straight to complaining?
They did with Marvel 1000. Ike is known to be super super cheap. But every big book I have of theirs with staples has held together nicely over the years. You just got to take good care of them.
I'm on a budget too and I dont mind it. Think of it as a mini graphic novel. Look at what image is doing with that new Robert Kirkman book. The first issue IS literally a graphic novel for $10. Whatever can get me the best bang for my buck. And if it's for a character that's super popular, like Wolverine, it's going to do well regardless. Notice how they dont do this for the low tier characters. All I know is I'm looking forward to it. Should be a good story with even better art.
One of those books, huh?
If you can get the Chip Kidd die-cut cover, it's thicker, more durable. And looks damn awesome
@ObsessedNerd it's because it's going to be doing two different stories. So think of it as a double issue with two first issues to the stories. I really don't mind it and wish they would do this more often because it's truly the best value for the money.
My copy wirh the Chip Kidd cover is absolutely immaculate so no complaints from me whatsoever. I hope they do more.
Was on the fence about added this to my pull. but I do love me some Omega Red.
That Jim Lee variant ! Also loving the Crain variants.
Really digging Percy's run on X-Force so this should be good.
Slightly more than double the pages at double the price. Plenty of Bang for the buck! (Or should I say, plenty of 'snikt!') :P But I agree, this would have been unique as a hard book spine. This is old school 100-Pg Giant stuff.
Man I'm pretty broke so I gotta choose between this and the DWJ Wonder Woman black label for this week. I'm not even a big DC fan but I dig DWJ. I might trade wait this one.
Yeah the price on this one is an obstacle but if my shop has a crazy sale on it I might think about it. DWJ looks to be telling a great story so I am picking that up.
Does your shop have sales on books that just came out ?
Sometimes on #1s especially Marvel he will make them half off just to get people on board also to just move them since he has at least one customer who buys most of the rare variants so he has a surplus and no other way of moving all of them. He did sell Dceased 1-5 for half off roght before #6 released he over ordered but sold them all that week.
@gregrory42 Holy heck Batman... I want to go to your store. My guy... You're lucky to find a bargain box. Never half off anything... Especially not new comics. You only get a small discount if you have a pull list. No "points" system. Yeah... I may need to find another shop.
Mine does a 20% discount off of cover prices for all new books and right now any back issues that are $5 or less he is selling for $2. Plus 1/2 off all back issue variants. Its a great shop.
20% off of New comic books! What??? So today... A 4.99 book is a full dollar cheeper? My shop gave a small 10% off of your total pull list... But my God 20% off each book. Where is this at?
DCBS does 40-50% on new books, 2 month ahead pre-order.
My shop offers NO discounts, and you have to keep a 5 issue pull list minimum. Also the back issues are all 5$ lol. My shop kinda sucks but I get it... the comic industry is on its last leg.
I wouldn't say that. I think there are a lot of bad business owners. My shop has regular events, gets involved with the community has a little comic con once a year but the most important thing he has right is customer service. They all greet you with 20 seconds of walking in. He knows everyones name he even knows both my daughters and knows in general the types of books that interest his customers. He also has done a good job of hiring friendly welcoming people who are a pleasure to talk to 3 women one man ( I think he also figured out women are far better in these types of small businesses) I have been to the three now two other local shops all employees are men and each one gave me the same impression they knew everything about comics and it was my privilege to shop in their store and God forbid if they were talking to a "regular" you might as well be a ghost.
@Waffles: That is how mine works as well. The discount on picked but not pulled is so dangerous, my LCS owner is always like, “have you checked the other new comics this week too?” And he just knows half the time I’ll grab something else XD
Sounds like you have a fantastic LCS! I'd love to pay a place like that a visit sometime. I haven't had a physical pull list in almost 15 years.
My shop doesn't offer discounts on a pull list and back issues are cover price for up to six months after release however, there are plenty of $1 boxes and a few months ago they bought over 50 boxes of new and slightly used trades and graphic novels and have been selling them at 50% (even hardcovers and omnibis) since then. Its how I've grown my trade and GN collection so much so quickly. My shop is raking in business too left and right. Recently had to move into a bigger place and expand.
This was awesome! So happy Wolverine has his own title again! The creative team is great so I am confident this will be a good run. I love premise here of The Flower Cartel.
What was the Carbonadium Synthesizer Omega Red is referencing ?
In the simplest of terms, the synthesizer stabilizes his need to be like a vampire and constantly needing to feed on others
What PK Said. It was part of Daniel Way's Wolverine Origins run.
I know everyone is in love with how deep and immersive the X books are in the age of Hickman. But sometimes I want to read a comic and not a textbook.
I loathe how the infographics have become prose pages explaining away story points that should be in the comic. Laziness.
A lot of the infographics are fucking amazing! Did you read the RPG like one in New Mutants #7? So awesome. This issue in particular was great and only had 2 infographics so I dont really know what you're complaining about. And its definitely not laziness.
Guys! This book was INCREDIBLE! The first story was pretty good and had a great mystery that will unravel and I'm looking forward to that. But the second story oh man! It is setting up some really cool things and a villain I did NOT see coming and did not expect but I am so hyped to see him again! It's so brilliant and I cant wait to see the fall out from it. A truly shocking and wow moment I wasnt expecting from a Wolverine book. And it was made all the better by the incredible art by Viktor Bogdanovic who I have been following for quite a while and is great to be see get this gig.
What did you guys think? Just gotta talk about this book! It was a "biting" good time
I agree. This was a well written and awesomely illustrated book, plus the double size issue made it even sweeter.
The only thing strange was that the two stories seem to be at completely different points in time and I would have loved a little heads up that would have cleared this up, but other than that, I am completely happy.
@razordoll yeah I had to confirmation on Twitter that the second story takes place after the first arc. Going to continue with issue 4. And I'm definitely excited for all of it.
I like Percy glad to see people liking this may check it out if I can find the funds.
Cool, thanks for the confirmation. I am really digging what Percy has been doing with X-Force and Wolverine.
There aren't any spoilers for other books.
Issue 2 will continue the first story. Issue 4 begins the second arc which is the second story of this issue.
I'll retract my first statement. The first story was incredibly boring, but the second one's pretty decent.
This was a nice issue!