Written by: Jonathan Hickman
Art by: Greg Capullo, Tim Townsend
Colors by: FCO Plascencia
Letters by: VC’s Cory Petit
Cover art by: Greg Capullo, Tim Townsend, FCO Plascencia (cover A)
Cover price: $4.99
Release date: October 30, 2024
Wolverine: Revenge #3, by Marvel Comics on 10/30/24, takes Wolverine to Europe to settle his score with Deadpool, Omega Red, and Colossus.
Is Wolverine: Revenge #3 Good?
At first glance, this issue, much like the series so far, appears pointless. Wolverine fights known characters and kills them, but you know those characters won’t be dead, so you’d be right to wonder why bother. But I think I know why this is happening. Marvel gave Johnathan Hickman a blank check to play around, and that’s it. If you go in knowing what to expect, it’s hard to be disappointed with a creator’s vanity project.
When last we left Logan in Wolverine: Revenge #2, he sought the help of Forge to find Magento’s helmet, buried in the crater left by Asteroid M. Wolverine used the helmet to find and kill Mastermind. The gambit succeeded, and Wolverine brought Mastermind’s decapitated head back to Forge to parse through the villain’s memories and find everyone involved in the death of Captain America and his allies in issue #1. Why does Forge have all this energy and working tech to perform these miraculous feats of engineering? It doesn’t matter. Just go with it. The issue concluded with Wolverine tracking down and defeating Sabretooth.
In Wolverine: Revenge #3, Logan scratches three more enemies off his hit list.
First, Wolverine catches a large ship to Europe to find where the other Brotherhood mutants set up the power reactor. When Wolverine gets within eyesight of the reactor, he’s first met by Omega Red. After a brutal fight, Wolverine kills Omega by breaking his neck.
“Hold the phone! Doesn’t Omega Red have advanced healing like Wolverine?” you might wonder. Yes, he does, but keep in mind that this series is a Hickman vanity project to play around. Continuity with characters, abilities, or canon is irrelevant. For example, if the world is plunged into darkness without power, how does a large freighter have the power to cross the ocean? It doesn’t matter.
Wolverine gets to the power plant and finds Deadpool sitting on the edge of the exhaust tower. The plan to restart an energy plant failed, and the tower is spewing dangerous radiation. After a talk between the super-healing killers, Wolverine tosses Deadpool into the reactor, presumably to be incinerated so completely as to never regenerate.
Again, we’re playing along with Hickman’s ideas and concepts that were never intended to work. The Brotherhood has the only reactor (???) that can restore power to the world, and it doesn’t work. In effect, every development invalidates the premise set up in the previous issue.
Finally, Logan finds Colossus living in a secluded cabin a week later. After a tough fight, Wolverine kills Colossus with claws through his brain, which makes sense since Adamantium is stronger than organic steel.
And that’s the end… with two issues left to go.
What’s great about Wolverine: Revenge #3?
If you ever imagined what it would be like for Wolverine to let loose and kill some of the toughest Marvel characters around, answering the myriad of LCS shop debates that happen on a weekly basis, this is it. In effect, this issue and the series are Hickman’s idea of dumb fun.
What’s not great about Wolverine: Revenge #3?
On another level, this issue is dumb fun because it’s just that… dumb. It’s very clear Hickman didn’t put in the minimum amount of effort or thought into the script. The underlying premise is created, contradicted, and then discarded in just a few pages, and the whole series is all but confirmed to be an alternate timeline-based bit of meaningless fluff.
Hickman doesn’t give you anything to make the revenge satisfying because nothing that sets up Wolverine’s drive for revenge makes sense. Wolverine: Revenge #3 is the kind of comic Marvel should be publishing for free under their Infinity digital line because charging money for this comic borders on fraud.
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Final Thoughts
Wolverine: Revenge #3 confirms what we already suspected. This series is nothing more than a Hickman vanity project to smash action figures together without any thought or effort to explain why they’re fighting. If you’ve ever been curious about who would win in a fight – Wolverine or Colossus – pick up this issue for the novelty factor, but don’t expect a story worth the cover price.
4.5/10
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