About Heroes

Author: Daniel Way
Art: Kaare Andrews
Colors: Shannon Blanchard

Back from vacation and ready for some more reviews. Let's see what book haven't I reviewed in a while. Well shit the bed, if it isn't Wolverine Origins Annual? From the same suck-ass team that brought you Wolverine Origins and the artist that brought you Spider-man (my gunk will kill you if you keep swallowing it) Reign. But, I am all about giving things another shot. So what was the end result? A four dollar book that will go down as the worst Wolverine Annual. I think it's a safe bet. It's worse than the annual where Wolverine is running around looking like an ogre. It's worse than Wolverine vs. a gigantic samurai robot. Good God, I haven't thought about another annual next year; I’m hoping someone saves us from the misery of this title and cancels it by then.

Wolverine returns to Madripoor for some reason to find the dead body of some woman he used to bang back in the 30s. We are reintroduced to Seraph, a throw-away character created by Chris Claremont back in the late 90s. That's a pretty promising start. At least from the beginning it seems that Way is trying to tie loose ends. However that's just a guise for another story that tastes like a bidet-less ass! Seems that Seraph was another woman that was caught up in a conspiracy against Logan or Patch...sorry. The end of the story is the revelation that Seraph was connected to Romulus. Yeah, that's right. Holy shit they are connecting this story to the other suck-ass Wolverine title.

The first half of the story is nothing but a flashback that wasn't too hard to buy, but by the time we fast forward to the present, everything just falls apart. Those connections from past to the present just don't make any sense. The Seraph story was completely pointless, unless Way is trying to get the point across that any woman that sleeps with Wolverine will end up gutted by Sabretooth. I think other writers have done that sick ass fetish and ran it to the ground. Since Way has been revealing Logan's past it seems that every supporting character is turning out to be villain in disguise. What's next Jubilee and Elsie-Dee revealed as agents working for Daken? This book could have been better if Way just stayed focus and given us an actual revelation at the ending or if someone else wrote it.

It's really a shame that Andrews was teamed up with Way for this horrible pointless story in Wolverine's life. His style has changed over the years and seems really strong in this issue. It's a great mix of Frank Miller and Tim Sale with some strong and distinctive figures. Blanchard's artificial aging of the pages in the flashback is not something new we've seen in comics, but it's done so damn well it makes you almost overlook the horrible writing. Almost. D+