2.191 (556) Badrock/ Wolverine #1 ...

This came out in the mid-90s ... during the height of the comics boom ... back when departing members of Marvel's all-star artist squad finally made good their relationship with Marvel and were discussing projects like Reborn ... so artist Liefeld (famous these days for Deadpool) ... decided to team up some of his characters from his corner of the Image-verse called Extreme with the mutant teams ... and this book is one of them

As a one-shot, it's got enough action and characterization to carry the book to its end. However, if you are not a fan of Wolverine or Liefeld, you probably shouldn't bother as it will not change your mind at all. On top of that, the story, at best is average

We have Wolverine during his Adamantium-free phase popping down to the Savage Land for a little R n R (we know, we know apparently in the world of X, the Savage Land, Antartica is always nearby!) ... and Badrock was abandoned by his team because of failing school grades ... and that's for the good guys (oh yeah as it is Savage Land, naturally, loser Ka-zar will be popping up)

On the team of villains we have an alien conqueror and the savage land mutates ... characters like the four armed fellow, leader like big brain chap and of course the useless Sauron who always talks so much but delivers so little ... and what's this all about?

Alien comes here to get his machine going in order to continue his conquering path but oddly enough ... while the blurbs say he is one mighty bad ass ... here he seems to be alone and easily SPOILER ALERT run off once trouble comes ... imagine that with the mutates combined, all he could do is take prisoner Kazae ... a man in loin cloth with no special powers or weapons beyond a hunting knife! Come on! What type of conqueror are you? A planet with no sentient life conqueror? Lame lame lame

Well, for once, Wolverine practised caution similar to cop movies and called back to X-Men base for help only to have his signal conveniently transmitted due to unexplained reasons to Badrock's game set ... and being a fan, Badrock decided to investigate ... hence the reason for this team up

Pretty mundane stuff

Ratings: 3/10 (I would have dropped lower but for the bonus poster by artist Marat Mychaels who is just soooooo good ... regular artwork is by Chap Yaep who is not my cup of tea)