Surprisingly enough, Origins manages to pull ahead of Legacy in the quality department and subvert almost everyone's expectations. Granted, it's not as story heavy as the previous two parts, but it's serviceable and has some good dialogue moments that caught me off-guard. Legacy readers just along for the crossover shouldn't have much to fear from this one. Read Full Review

There's definitely a lot of mileage in this story, which examines the jumbled past of two morally grey X-Men and compares it with their present, and it's certainly accomplished its task of making me buy issues of "Wolverine: Origins" that I'd usually skip over. I'm perfectly pleased to do so, as long as the story is good. Even though these kind of crossovers made the X-line in particular very difficult to read around 10 years ago, I'd go so far as to say that used this sparingly, they're actually really enjoyable. Roll on the next two issues. Read Full Review