REVIEW: X Lives of Wolverine #4, three time periods but one strong story
Week 7 of this time travel romp has arrived, and the story is going strong, avoiding the confusion that usually comes with this sort of concept
Read MoreWeek 7 of this time travel romp has arrived, and the story is going strong, avoiding the confusion that usually comes with this sort of concept
Read MoreTo usher in this next X-Men era’s opening salvo comes the twin series X Lives/X Deaths of Wolverine, beginning this week with X Lives of Wolverine #1.
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — As a writer, I’ve been reading Benjamin Percy’s work for some time, long before I made any sort of move to go from steady reader of comic book trade collections to an active weekly comics blogger. My first exposure to his work came in 2009 or so, when a friend recommended his debut short story collection to me, Refresh, Refresh, which features a blistering title story about the savageness of war...underscored by the deep emotional pain it inflicts upon the communities from which soldiers come. There was a vague interest in technology present as well, plus an ending story that starred a lone man on a motorcycle in the nuclear-weapon scarred Pacific Northwest, fleeing in one memorable scene from a pack of crazed (and maybe mutated?) hounds.
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