Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Wolverine and Jubilee Issue 3 Review


It is now time for Wolverine and Jubilee Issue 3, as we reach right into the really big comic book box of death and pull out an issue for a random review. In this issue, Jubilee is struggling to come to come to terms with being turned into a vampire.

Wolverine and Jubilee Issue 3 Review 

Wolverine and Jubilee Issue 3 was released by Marvel Comics with a cover date of May 1991 and was titled Cursed Part 3 of 4. Wolverine and Jubilee Issue 3 of 4 was written by Kathryn Immonen, with art by Phil Noto, Cover Ar by Nimit Malvia, Clayton Cowles was the letterer, and Jared K Fletcher as the designer.

Yep, vampires, they have been getting a lot of play in popular culture. And after the events of M Day(one of the five million events in the past decade that Marvel hyped as the biggest thing ever, when the Scarlet Witch went bonkers, rewrote all of reality, was discovered, and then declared, "no more mutants" depowering all but 198 mutants). Jubilee was actually one of the characters that lost her powers, but she got them back, at the cost of being a vampire.

She can be relatively normal, with the healing properties of Wolverine's blood. Of course there is still some torment, some angst, not being a mutant or a human, although really there are some perks. And hey, becoming a vampire without having to sparkle like diamonds in the sunlight is rather a great thing.

Yes I know, I had to go there.

The issue was like most comics these days, obviously written by the trade, but it's not how much is written, it is what the writer does with what is written and the writer in this comic book does enough to keep my interest.

The scene with the X-Men on the couch with the remote control being lost was the highlight of this issue for me. Yeah go up and change the channel, there are buttons on the television. Well unless you have one of those digital converter boxes on the top of the television where you have to keep on channel three, because there isn't.

I didn't hate this issue, but it obviously had the same issues that many newer comics have, which vexes me. Perhaps the comic book industry has passed me by.

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