Wolverine: Manifest Destiny #2 – Review

By Jason Aaron (writer) Stephan Segovia (art) Noah Salonga & Stephan Segovia (inkers) Cory Petit (letterer) Dave Wilkins (cover art)

The Story: Writer Jason Aaron crafts a fine tale of Logan’s exploits in Chinatown. Fifty odd years ago, Logan destroyed the Black Dragon tongs and was cast out of Chinatown and told never to return, under penalty of death. After been recognised (and nailed to a wall with a samurai sword) by Lo Jun, Grand Master of the Wudangquan, Logan is then beaten within an inch of his life by the Black Dragons death squad. Logan manages to escape to the sewers where he is found by Master Po, who offers to train him, Kung-fu panda style, to defeat the Black Dragons.

What’s Good: I’m really enjoying this story from Jason Aaron, he’s probably one of the best writers around at the moment and really gives this mini series a 70’s schlock-fu vibe. On the art side Stephan Segovia’s art is very reminiscent of Leinil Yu’s, giving the book a wonderfully kinetic feel that’s needed to pull off this kind of story. My favourite part at the moment was seeing Logan getting thunder- kicked fifty feet through a brick wall, great stuff!

What’s Not So Good: As you may of guessed I’m really digging this mini series and to be honest there is very little to fault. If you are a fan of kung-fu cinema or the hairy runt you really can’t go wrong.

Conclusion: All in all, another solid offering from Marvel, I’ll definitely be picking up the remaining issues and I urge you to do so, there are certainly worse books than this on the market at the moment and it’s still priced at $2.99, bonus!

Grade: B+

– C.Flanigan