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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
just ok ..........., February 24, 2005
The wolverine/punisher limited series of 2004 presented here in one volume is a slighty disappointing affiar. Thats not to say the story of a sect of criminals building thier own secret santurary to escape the punisher and his like is not an interesting one , its just that its dragged out over a series of issues when just a couple could have done the job. Of course there is the usual fight between wolvie and pun, but its been done before and far better too .(This is the third limited series they have had together never mind the guest apperances in each others monthly books!!!! ) So unless the reader is new to the pair they will have seen it all before ! On the plus side you cant really not get excited about the two hardest bas***ds in the marvel universe coming together to fight a whole town full of "crims". With out spoiling it to much, the story too, does not always unfold in the expected way which adds a welcome twist to the proceedings. All in all if your a fan already you will have seen it (mostly) all before, but if your new you could enjoy the plot and the welcome(odd) bit of humour.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
pretty bad, April 11, 2005
The premise for this sounds intriguing, Wolverine and the Punisher go to the jungles of South America to find a criminal, but one hero wants to kill him while the other wants to protect him. Sounds good, right?
I'm sorry to say that this is a really weak book. It has one of the worst villains ever, Napoleon, complete with the full Frenchie-poo outfit. The Punisher has some god-awful lines like: "This is your Waterloo." ((groan)) The book is totally predictable. Punisher and Wolvie start out at odds, then have to team up to get out of the criminal infested town of Erewhon (the world's most obvious anagram).
The artwork is decent, that's why I'm giving this book a couple of stars.
If you like the Punisher, check out Garth Ennis' stuff. "Welcome Back Frank" and "In the Beginning" are both very good. If you're a Wolverine fan, check out "Origin." Astonishing X-men and Ultimate X-men are my favorite team books with him. I'm not a big fan of the solo Wolverine series.
These team-up books never seem to work. Oh well, there are plenty of great graphic novels out there to choose from.
Happy reading!
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Lackluster team up is more of a 90's flashback, May 20, 2005
Remember the countless team up's Marvel would put together back in the 90's featuring the "dark" characters of the Marvel Universe? They mostly consisted of teaming up Wolverine, the Punisher, Ghost Rider, Venom, etc. in relatively lame various mini-series' that were so limited on character and such and more focused on the properties of the characters involved. This recent team up of Wolverine and the Punisher is similar to the aforementioned mini's, only this time poor Peter Milligan (X-Statix, X-Men, Human Target) gets the task of writing this TPB. The unusually gifted writer concocts a tale here featuring Wolvie and Frank going to South America in search of a criminal. Wolvie wants to protect him, and the Punisher wants to kill him (naturally). This all ends in both characters engineering a daring escape, with little point to it all. It's a shame that Milligan has to resort to work like this, even though there are a couple of good action moments, and the art throughout is solid. Fans of either character may want to give this a look, but you're better off with any recent Wolverine work by Mark Millar, or the various TPB's of the Punisher by Garth Ennis.
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