Title: Hunt for Wolverine – Adamantium Agenda
Publisher: Marvel
Writer: Tom Taylor
Artist: R. B. Silva
Release: May 9th 2018
Price: $3.99
“Due to a promise made between heroes, the NEW AVENGERS have reassembled to make sure Logan’s body isn’t misused.”
The hunt for Wolverine continues in Hunt for Wolverine – Adamantium Agenda #1, and like other tie-ins that we’ve covered already, not much happens outside of assembling yet another team. This time we get a reformation of The New Avengers, which I was a fan of, but once again we are left with very little, you know, Wolverine news.
Tom Taylor is on writing duties and manges to do better than everything else we’ve gotten so far in terms of actual story. Sure, Wolverine doesn’t appear in this issue proper, but his does appear in an extended flashback. It feels like a story ripped right out of The New Avengers and helps salvage this book.
Unfortunately, and no matter how much I like The New Avengers, this isn’t their story. At the very least the flashback ties together the reason why the New Avengers have reformed to go looking for Wolverine outside of, you know, being his friend and teammate. It serves to give us a stronger connection the the characters and their motivation which is nice, so it’s too bad that it ends too quickly for my taste.
The bulk of the book sees The New Avengers attending a black market auction at the bottom on the ocean in a tiny submarine. It’s an interesting setting, but one that does not allow for any real action. In fact, for a book chalk full of superheroes not a single meaningful punch is thrown, and while I’d be okay with it if the story was solid — it isn’t in terms of premise.
This is a problem because while the team is out following a lead on the location of Wolverine’s body –even though we’ve seen Wolverine apparently alive and fighting in the very first issue of this event– it all becomes a red herring. Again, I’d be okay with this in almost any other book, especially with The New Avengers, but this isn’t the point of this massive event.
It’s a really interesting twist of an ending to sure, but one that simply doesn’t fit in terms of this narrative. How many books are we going to have to sit through before we get any worthwhile plot development? If the story removed the intro flashback that featured Wolverine, the book would still work just as well because he plays such a pitiful part in the overall story.
Fans of The New Avengers should get a kick out of this one, but fans wanting even a sliver of new information regarding Wolverine are going to be left miffed, especially after spending more money on yet another book where nothing much happens.
Thankfully the writing does its job with what it’s given and the art by R. B. Silva holds everything together well. Still, I really can’t recommend this book for how little it moves this major event forward in any capacity.
“Hunt for Wolverine – Adamantium Agenda #1 does nothing to move the mystery of what happened to Wolverine forward in any meaningful way”
Final Score:
2.5/5
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