2.77 (442) Wolverine Origins vol 1 #15 ... Marvel ...

And so it ends this saga of ours but what an ending it is!

Throughout this entire arc, though Wolverine has been savage, he has also shown to be a man who has honour and knows when to kill and when not to. However, here, he goes one step beyond and actually plays a surprising card letting the baddie thinks the latter is ahead. Heh! Good one!

Basically, at the end of this arc, the tale has not yet finished as Wolverine and Daken still hasn't settled their father-son animosity issues and the mysterious guy scheming behind is yet to be fully confronted. It does, however, give us closure of a sorts with psycho, Cyber

NO SPOILER ALERT

Other than that, you can expect some awesome action sequences but that's it. I cannot reveal more ... except to say what a bummer the ending is ... no Quesada cover

Ratings: 5/10

2.76 (441) Wolverine Origins vol 1 #14 ... Marvel ...

O damn and disaster! No more Quesada covers ... sigh ...

If last issue was a Wolverine v Daken fight, then we start this where the storyline left off with  Daken then clashing head on with Cyber and to everyone's surprise, Cyber actually kicking the shit out of Daken inspite of Daken's self-cocky confidence in winning!!!

In fact, the only way Daken got out alive is case W managed to rouse himself and interfered. And as Cyber rightly puts it, was W hoping this to be the emotional moment where he connects with his kid?

SPOILER ALERT

Nah! Daken then turns and walks off leaving W to get his own ass whupped next and boy does Cyber finish what he started ... and then the joke fell on him as he is struck down (Cyber that is) by a weak heart! Hah! We kid you not. Just as he was finishing the job, he has a mild heart attack. You see, the body he is inhabiting has grown too fast until the inner organs cannot cope with the physical bulk

Ah what a good turn of events here! So let's see what happens next as W makes a deal with Cyber to get him fixed up in return for more info on Daken and the mysterious figure who seemed to be behind all these claw characters

Ratings: 7/10

2.75 (440) Wolverine Origins vol 1 #13 ... Marvel ...

Well, well, well what a surprise this issue turns out to be. It may be the middle point of the story but the amount of action here is literally non-stop from opening until the next cliff hanger ending! There are a few things that didn't make sense but hey this is comics, right? Hehehe!

Anyway, finally we caught up with Wolverine once more as we see him using more brains than brawns at the outset (love the firemen and police set up) before encountering Daken and then all hell broke loose!

What is there to tell? They exchanged a few words and then tore into each other ... SPOILER ALERT ... I just cannot believe that there as no scent of Daken even when he was like behind his dad and he was wearing regular shoes so there should be sound ... and what the fuck is that with shooting W in the chest and with what? Never shown or explained but W was well and truly smacked and defeated !!!

And then enter Cyber ... except Cyber came for Daken too and not W ... WTF?!?!?!?!

Ratings: 7/10

2.74 (439) Wolverine Origins vol 1 #12 ... Marvel ...

Remember what I was saying about a Joe Q cover? Check this one out especially the angle of Cyber ... he is totally dominating Wolverine and that cover space, eh? AWESOME

Covers aside, unfortunately although this is issue 12, there is nothing special in terms of number of pages or storyline but rather more of a middle point, a post office kind of issue serving as a set up for the remainder of this arc

Here we get a wee bit on Wolverine as he decides to head out to the one place that he hopes to solve the partial mystery of his son while Daken himself finds that he is indeed being jerked around on a chain although he did his rebellious best by giving others a hard time just as a knee jerk kind of reaction ...

But the one main thrust on this story is Cyber as we see him finally having a physical body and ... as he goes about setting his own revenge plan in motion, we get to see flashbacks of how he was as a ruthless and savage individual ... getting yanked out of prison ... and how he first encountered Wolverine and subsequently the rest of the shit that happened before he became what he is now ... in short a recap and origin issue for Cyber here

Don't get me wrong. I know shit about this chap. So for me, this was a good read

Ratings: 6/10

2.73 (438) Wolverine Origins vol 1 #11 ...

[Short note ... from next review onwards, we will be publishing on an alternate day basis as we are running short on staff ... and still churning out our movie and novel reviews as well ... hope you bear with us ... thanks for reading!]

I cannot believe this. After 400 over reviews, I did a check and found that I have only ever reviewed issue 1 of this series when it boasts in its early run AWESOME QUESADA covers and by awesome, I meant it. I am not a fan of Quesada interiors but his covers are just WOW

In this issue, we start a new story arc and once again with Dillon delivering on the interiors, it was a roaring kick off as we see Wolvie realizing he is being surrounded and has the option of slashing through SHIELD agents or using his brains. Nice to see him reigning in his killer urge here. At this point, he has no idea who is really jerking his chains only that he is obsessed with finding Daken, his estranged son and see if anything can be done to calm the kid down as the kid is infinitely worse than him!

On the flipside, we see Daken playing his usual games of debauchery and killing anyone who he feels like it while realizing that as much as he considers himself a player, he is nothing more than a pawn

And as all good Marvel of ole knows, a Marvel comic must have threads hanging for the future and in this issue, we see not the body but the eerie and foreboding voice of ... Cyber ... in a farmyard where a kid has mutated to giant size with super strength!

Ratings: 6/10

2.72 (437) X-Factor vol 1 #63 ... Marvel ...

Well, well, well after that crossover I was happy to drop X-Factor once more except that this issue introduce me to an artist whose style finally came to the fore and this artist is none artist that Whilce Portacio. Whilce is simply awesome. I became a fan and have generally followed his career until today!

Anyway in this issue we see a 2-parter of sorts where young Bobby Drake aka the Iceman is finally getting full spotlight as we see him going out with his girlfriend who is Japanese

Predictably her family didn't approve of him ... kinda similar to Bobby's problems all the time

However, to add some spice to the tale, on the flipside we found out that the girlfriend's brother is supposed a master assassin who has a whole heard of wanebe heroes and that's them on this cover. So they are cybernetic soldiers

Good work, decide storyline if ableit too cliché but of course the ending is good as we are guarant
eed with more action and sound effect noises to come

Ratings: 8/10

2.71 (436) X-Factor vol 1 #61 ... Marvel ...

Once more we skipped forward a couple of years to the next big event in the Mutant verse and this time around, it's called the X-tinction Agenda and it involves the entire Mutant family as apparently in small island nation Genosha, the humans have managed to enslave the entire country and using mutants to do a lot of menial and special tasks

When we talk about mutants here, it is not just regular but special or activated mutants. Of course, some are brainwashed to even become magistrates. Magistrates are like police special forces armed with high-tech weaponry

In this ongoing chapter, we see as the cover shows, a battle between Cable who is in deep shit over his team going out to take a strike against a Cameron Hodge ... the latter of whom is now more machine than man but his hatred remains. On a slightly more dramatic yet sentimental mode, we have Jean caring for Wolvie

The one let down here is the artwork for me. I mean at this time, we have artists like Jim Lee on Uncanny producing the other chapters to this crossover and after reading a Lee issue to come to this rushed looking work? UGH!

Ratings: 6/10