A review by carroq
Wolverine: Origin by Paul Jenkins

2.0

This felt like a lot of other X-Men books to me with the big difference being that it focuses on Wolverine's childhood. I was left thinking "so what?" at the end of this book. It didn't do anything to make me excited to read more about the character and there wasn't really any consequences to what happened here. It basically took him from one part of the world and plopped him down in another, with most of the people reading it knowing that is where he was going to end up at some point because of everything else that has been written about the character.

Now, I don't think the book was written poorly. It seems to encapsulate a lot of what readers would expect from Wolverine and ties in pretty nicely from what I knew about him going in. I'm a little torn on the art though. A lot of the set pieces are fantastic, just really well drawn. The characters blended together for me at times though. Diehard Wolverine fans might get something out of it.