WOLVERINE #26 begins as a back-to-basics story but quickly takes a turn! The Beast Agenda starts here, but where will it end? Read Full Review

‘Wolverine' continues its journey to seemingly wrap up or at least address its bevy of dangling plotlines, doing so in a way that just doesn't seem to fully hit the mark as much as it potentially could. This intro issue is very much a paint-by-numbers sort of story but could be setting up for something far more interesting with the following issues. Time will tell. Read Full Review

I enjoy this quite a lot. The art is insanely great, really eye-magnetizing stuff in virtually every panel. And I like the subtle themes threaded through the script. The pace is slow, but in a positive, deliberate way.

Then it stumbles in the last 2 scenes. This is, what, the 3rd time this volume has tried to sell this antagonist? The 3rd time's not the charm, subjectively, and I'm still not that interested in them.

But I DO love everything prior to their arrival.

Is anybody else clocking the irony of a comic book talking about manufacturing collectables, 30 years after attempting to do exactly that nearly destroyed the whole comics industry?

I like this more personal conflict. But I still feel like beast's transformation into a hard right national security conservative takes me out of it because it's such a caricature.