DARK WOLVERINE #75–Guest Review
DARK WOLVERINE #75
by Daniel Way & Marjorie Liu, art by Giuseppe Camuncoli
I made a decision to not get wrapped up in all the Dark Reign titles, but that didn’t mean I wouldn’t check out some of them…nibble at the edges and see what’s good…the same way I’ve been nibbling at the Batman: Reborn titles and sampling them. I didn’t want to like this book. My limited exposure to Logan’s son Daken (who steals the book from dad with this issue) didn’t impress me and I really didn’t want to like the character. So I didn’t want to like this book either, but I still wanted to check it out.
Hmmm, it ‘s kind of interesting. Oooo, it’s got an edge and a mean-spirited one at that! Ahhh, I sort of like that. Daken as portrayed here is a real conniving and manipulative sort of smart ass who also deliberately goads the other members of the Dark Avengers into skirmishes…but I can’t help but like him since he’s not going to fall for Norm Osborn’s crap (and that is one character I have never liked before and don’t like now). Daken’s “got my own plans.”
In fact, he baits Osborn right on page 2 after he gets asked “Do you know what a hero is?” and Daken replies “You mean like Spider-Man?” The double take, grim and frustrated expression on Osborn’s face as he reacts to this comment is priceless. Daken’s heartless and doesn’t care who gets hurt as he works his plan, including a support staff member who gets caught and punished for stealing files for Daken, as well as an attractive female H.A.M.M.E.R. soldier whose emotions he manipulates to lure her to his bedroom so he can “hammer” her (couldn’t resist that set-up line, sorry). She’s thinking that she’s sleeping with the famous Wolverine/Logan.
Daken baits Venom/Spider-Man and then Bullseye/Hawkeye. And he’s got his mind set on using Dark Hawkeye for his plan as the story ends with the Fantastic Four interrupting a gala event to make an accusation about him. As Daken concludes, “…as an extremely paranoid man once told me. It’s all about perception.” Great stuff, that.
And somebody (I assume Mr. Way) made it easy for us to get into this book and catch up to the character’s history, even if we’ve never read a single book featuring Daken before. The credit page summary does a remarkable job of detailing Daken’s story in a very short space. The end of this book is a 10-page “Dark Wolverine Saga” that gives a little bit more of the story in chronological order with some great single page artwork. Very nicely done. I know I’ll be looking for Issue #2!
Michael Clarke, CBH Member, kindly allowed us to run his review originally posted on http://bcrefugees.blogspot.com/.
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