Blood & Sorrow

Four different episodes and three different artists. The style of the various ones are quite different. And it effects the way I percieve the comic quite a lot. The different painting styles are as follows.

The one that appeals my senses most is the one out of
Wolverine #49 - Better to give ... it has a crisp and colorful art that is more to my liking. Here you're actually worried that he'll rip himself out of the book and go after you

I'm coming for ya!

The one on 2nd place will have to be the ones by C.P. Smith.
The two comics are quite different and I got to like the first one out of X-men Unlimited 12 - The Healing best. The story is quite simple. Retold further down.

Wolverine goes soft

First page of Smith's second comic in the book

The least liked one is the one with art from Aja/Villarubia from
Giant-Size Wolverine #1 - The House of Blood and Sorrow.
Dear old Logan is drawn as a bum and there is too much drawn in each square. It gets crowded to see a monsters zillion tentacles squeezed in to a small spot.
The story in this and The Package are not quite as interesting as the other two either. In The House of ... Logan wakes up at a farm in the middle of nowhere after dealing with a monster robot and finds out there are more monsters about and a little lost girl needin' savin'. The story in The Package was, well Logan is in the African republic Zwartheid and has to carry a baby to a safer place.

Hillbilly Vs Hillbillies

In Better to give Logan finds himself reluctantly among other Christmas shoppers as a hostage situation sets off - and of course there is a large amount of small green elfs with UZI's. What's not to like!

The story in The Healing is just that, Wolverine wakes up blown/shredded/stabbed to pieces or whatever and goes through the whole process of healing and his techniques to ignore the pain. Only to realize that his first and foremost weapon in that struggle - Jean Grey - and his love for her is the very reason he got off to that isolated region in the first place.
The end-scene is a one that sticks with you. Not something very special art-wise but the contrast between Logan and the lone mountain is quite poetic. Less is sometimes more.

But I'll be okay. As long as I remember the first rule:
You don't have to live through this 'til it's over.
You just have to live 'til the next moment
And when that comes ...

-You'll live with it, too.

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All in all a very readably album. I rank Wolverine as my favourite X-man. His lonewolf lifestyle and drawn back image is an interesting one. The stories are quite straightforward and my previous lack of reading Marvel don't leave me with grey spots. I find the love/angst-theme of the Healing to be on a lot deeper level than I had expected to find and that is always a bonus.