Comics You Should be Reading, but…………
Friday, December 24, 2010 at 03:21AM Well like Mike has said multiple times, my blog has kind of jumped the shark. It was getting hard to find stuff to recommend consistently, so I’m just going to take this in a different direction. Some weeks I’m just going to point out some books that stood out to me as amazing and that are worth a read regardless if they are new series or not, and some books that should never be read or heard from again.
I’m going to start this blog off with Wolverine: The Best There Is #1. This is one of the worst books I have read in awhile. We have all read books on occasion where they are just blah or unforgettable, but sometimes a book comes along that just pisses you off or makes you go what the f**k were they thinking. Well for me, this is one of those books that makes me scream obscenities. It is written by Charlie Huston and I’m surprised he even wrote this crap. He did a very good job writing Moon Knight a couple years ago when they re-launched the book, I’m not going to even get started on how Civil War ruined that book, because that can be its own blog. The art is done by Juan Jose Ryp and I have never heard of him before this. The art is not that bad, it just looks kind of weird and some of the panels of the characters look like dolls. I think the best thing about this book hands down is the Bryan Hitch cover. That might be the nicest statement I will have to say about this book when this blog is over.
Well the book starts off with a naked Wolverine being tortured and treated like a slave. He has a dog collar on and is walked out of his cage like a dog. He is then thrown in a arena and forced to fight a rat like creature. He cuts the things head off and then proceeds to what we are to believe is that he kills everyone in the arena. Then we abruptly cut to him in a car with a woman and they discuss how she picked him up hitchhiking. She says she doesn’t believe who he says he is, which in turn causes Wolverine to cut her bangs off in the front. She ends up liking how he cut her hair and jokes are made about Wolverine opening his own hair salon. I am not making this up people, they actually make jokes about Wolverine calling his salon Claws. She then tells him about a party she was heading to and they decide to go. She tries to get Wolverine to dance with her and of course he says no, but while she is dancing a girl comes over and asks Wolverine to cut her hair since she heard he was the other girls stylist. Ugh another scene involving Wolverine as a hair dresser. He ends up cutting a couple girls hair and even makes a Simon Cowell joke in the process. He then gets introduced to the guy who is throwing the party. This guy is shown as some sort of villain, but I have no idea who he is. He shakes Wolverine’s hand and this causes him to freak out and he thinks he is killing everyone in the room. Then they end the book with Wolverine stabbing himself in the chest multiple times. Great now they are making him look like an emo kid that cuts themselves. Wow was I relieved that the book was over. I put the book down and scratched my head in disbelief. I’ve been a Wolverine fan since I was a kid and this is not the Wolvie I have read and cherished for years. Why would Marvel green light this book? I can only imagine it was because they thought yah, a new Wolverine #1 book that we can sell like hot cakes. I for one am very pissed that I bought this piece of thrash. I will definitely not being picking up #2 and I highly suggest that you don’t either. Heck don’t even pick up #1 in the bargain bins, when it hits there eventually.
Well this was fun venting for a bit, hopefully you will like my new format as I move this blog along. Now I’m off to try and rinse the bad taste of this comic out of my mouth, it was even more painful reliving it this second time to write this blog.
Reader Comments (1)
I had heard about this book and was sort of interested in what it was going to be all about. I'm glad you read it for me, now I never have to waste $4 on it.