This is another seemingly random one-shot, this time from Marc Guggenheim and Dave Wilkins. And while the last two I reviewed turned out to be heading somewhere, this is… just pointless, really? Completism alone dictates that it gets a short post, but it doesn’t merit anything more than that.<\/p>\n
It is, you will be amazed to hear, a story in which two heroes are both drawn into an affair involving the same villain, and have a misunderstanding which leads them to fight, before they team up to take on the bad guy. There\u2019s nothing wrong<\/i>\u00a0with that formula as such – the clich\u00e9s became clich\u00e9s because they worked – but it\u2019s not something you can hang a story on. There has to be something more.<\/p>\n
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This book opens with an action flashback of Wolverine and Blade teaming up to destroy a vampire cult called the Creed, before jumping forward a few months to show both heroes discovering that the Creed are still around, and are taking an interest in mutants. The big idea is that the Creed believe in a messiah-vampire called Varkis, and they think that he\u2019s going to be a mutant. Since that messiah has inconveniently and frustratingly failed to show up, they have been trying to hurry matters alone by vamping a few mutants to see what happens. Naturally, all this is heading to a misunderstanding where each hero thinks that the other must be Varkis, but it turns out to be neither of them. There\u2019s a mildly creative idea about where Varkis actually does come from, and after that, the heroes join forces and win.<\/p>\n
And as far as the story goes, that\u2019s pretty much it. This thing is 40 pages long, but there\u2019s really nothing about the story that merits any particular comment. It is noteworthy only in its lack of noteworthiness.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s be fair, though – the book isn\u2019t particularly concerned about its plot either. It\u2019s basically a vehicle for Dave Wilkins to draw some hack-and-slash action sequences, the kind where blood flows freely thanks to Logan\u2019s ability to regrow stuff and his willingness to dice the undead. It\u2019s somewhat reminiscent of the style of the Kyle & Yost X-Force<\/i>, with the art being a more surface-polished version of Clayton Crain\u2019s shiny-but-dark veneer. Which never had much appeal to be first time round.<\/p>\n
But for those who like this kind of thing, this is the kind of thing that they like. It\u2019s not something that the X-books have done much of lately, so maybe there really is an un-met demand. \u00a0Even if there is, though, it can surely be tied to a more interesting story than this. \u00a0Without being especially enthralled by the book\u2019s violence rating, I found it a tedious slog – one of those comics that required a real effort of will to keep paying attention to the end. \u00a0Eminently missable, or perhaps dodge-able.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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