Wolverine 146 Review

It is now time to reach into the Really Big Comic Book Box of Doom and pull out a comic book issue for a random review. The issue that we will be reviewing is Wolverine Issue 146. In this issue, Wolverine is under the control of Apocalypse as the Horsemen known as Death. His fellow X-Men have to break him of the conditioning.

Wolverine Volume 1 Issue 146 Review.

Review of Wolverine Volume 1 Issue 146 was released by Marvel Comics with a cover date of January 2000. Wolverine 146 was written by Fabian Niceza and Erik Larsen, Penciled by Mark Miller, Inked by Durruthy, Massengill, and Christian, Colored by Marie Jarvins, and Lettered by RS/Comicraft/WA.

We start this issue with Psylocke trying to locate the fallen team mate of the X-Men, Wolverine. For all of those who are diving right into this comic book, we are rather quickly brought up to spee with what has happened. Wolverine has really had a really bad couple of years. And it ends with good old Logan being turned right into Death, the Horsemen of Apocalypse.

Apocalypse as always has a plan that is going to spell trouble for our heroes but the real trouble is fighting the form of their former comrade. And a sense that Logan might not be that far gone, but he is most certainly not himself. This leads to a nail biting and pulse pounding adventure. Obviously Wolverine would be the star, as this is his comic, but other X-Men like Archangel, Kitty Pryde, Nightcrawler, and Jubilee get a fair amount of screen time.

The great thing about the entire family of X-Men comics(at the most insane points, all twelve or fourteen or so titles for month) is there an entire wealth of continuity. Granted in the hands of a bad writer, that can be a smoking gun that could derail the enjoyment of your readers, but in the hands of a good writer it can enhance the story, but it it was not necessary.

The solo Wolverine books does have that unfortunate stigma of just being vehicles to hype up Wolverine but this one has a lot of emotional attachment, from the past. The battle between Kitty and Logan as Death was particular nerve wrenching.

Strictly speaking, you don't need to really get every little reference but its half of the fun. As a result, I found this issue to be a nice one. Most certainly something that I might re read given the opportunity.