Jonathan Mayberry, Lawrence Campbell, and Lee Loughridge
“Part 2:” Previously in this alt-universe, an outbreak reducing people to the basest of stages, began with Spider-man and spread to a few sections of humanity and the metahuman community. Reed Richards, along with other brilliant members of the superhero community, has tasked Wolverine, due to his healing abilities, to help stop the outbreak before it gets too far. Trying to join up with the Xmen, Wolverine finds that they have all been turned and he had no choice but to kill them all.
Summary: We open up to Wolverine reporting back to Reed, The Thing, Hank Pym, and Beast discussing the Xmen situation. Because of his rock skin, Ben Grimm’s been charged with dealing with the captured, infected Spider-man. The scientists have discovered what the disease is, but to create an antivirus, they will need a healthy survivor of the disease. It was brought over by members of the Russian mob, but they were killed before they could sell it. The style of the mob killings points directly to one person: Frank Castle, the Punisher. As Wolverine heads out to find the Punisher, he goes by several fights between superheroes and villains, with infected on each side. Wolverine stumbles onto The Punisher, Hawkeye, and Taskmaster fighting the infected and joins in the fight. The Lizard kills Taskmaster, and is in turn killed by the Punisher. Hawkeye is bitten shortly before the fight ends, and is taken away by the military. Wolverine and Punisher head back towards the Baxter building as the Punisher talks about the mob hit from 18 months ago. He was under the impression the merchandise the mob was moving that night was a nuke. Thinking the cargo was some sort of bioweapon instead, he blew it up but was exposed to a bit of it. He was sick for a few days, but the overdose from the disease caused him to recover. As they are heading back to the Baxter building, an infected Magneto and Electro are fighting and an overload of their abilities blow out the power grid to the city. Finally making it to the base, they find the building has gone dark, and it is a bloodbath. In the 30 minutes since Wolverine spoke to Reed, everyone in the building has been killed. They find Reed, stretched to his limited and wrapped around a door, barely alive. Inside, they find Spiderman and the Beast eating Hank Pym. The Punisher blows Beast’s head off on sight. Spiderman escapes and then The Thing, now infected, shows up with Red She-Hulk and what appears to be the Invisible Woman, and begins to attack Frank, Wolverine, and Reed.
Highs: Its an interesting story and each of the characters really feels like they should… The writer clearly gets these characters.
Lows: The art is dark and really gritty, and I know that is the feel of the comic, and I think I said this last time, but there are places that I can’t tell who is who because the artist is too focused on some shot of violence.
Verdict: A-. So far so good as we reach the halfway point in this miniseries. Hopefully, this will lead up to the world we saw in Punisher vs. Marvel Universe a year or so ago.
“Part 2:” Previously in this alt-universe, an outbreak reducing people to the basest of stages, began with Spider-man and spread to a few sections of humanity and the metahuman community. Reed Richards, along with other brilliant members of the superhero community, has tasked Wolverine, due to his healing abilities, to help stop the outbreak before it gets too far. Trying to join up with the Xmen, Wolverine finds that they have all been turned and he had no choice but to kill them all.
Summary: We open up to Wolverine reporting back to Reed, The Thing, Hank Pym, and Beast discussing the Xmen situation. Because of his rock skin, Ben Grimm’s been charged with dealing with the captured, infected Spider-man. The scientists have discovered what the disease is, but to create an antivirus, they will need a healthy survivor of the disease. It was brought over by members of the Russian mob, but they were killed before they could sell it. The style of the mob killings points directly to one person: Frank Castle, the Punisher. As Wolverine heads out to find the Punisher, he goes by several fights between superheroes and villains, with infected on each side. Wolverine stumbles onto The Punisher, Hawkeye, and Taskmaster fighting the infected and joins in the fight. The Lizard kills Taskmaster, and is in turn killed by the Punisher. Hawkeye is bitten shortly before the fight ends, and is taken away by the military. Wolverine and Punisher head back towards the Baxter building as the Punisher talks about the mob hit from 18 months ago. He was under the impression the merchandise the mob was moving that night was a nuke. Thinking the cargo was some sort of bioweapon instead, he blew it up but was exposed to a bit of it. He was sick for a few days, but the overdose from the disease caused him to recover. As they are heading back to the Baxter building, an infected Magneto and Electro are fighting and an overload of their abilities blow out the power grid to the city. Finally making it to the base, they find the building has gone dark, and it is a bloodbath. In the 30 minutes since Wolverine spoke to Reed, everyone in the building has been killed. They find Reed, stretched to his limited and wrapped around a door, barely alive. Inside, they find Spiderman and the Beast eating Hank Pym. The Punisher blows Beast’s head off on sight. Spiderman escapes and then The Thing, now infected, shows up with Red She-Hulk and what appears to be the Invisible Woman, and begins to attack Frank, Wolverine, and Reed.Highs: Its an interesting story and each of the characters really feels like they should… The writer clearly gets these characters.
Lows: The art is dark and really gritty, and I know that is the feel of the comic, and I think I said this last time, but there are places that I can’t tell who is who because the artist is too focused on some shot of violence.
Verdict: A-. So far so good as we reach the halfway point in this miniseries. Hopefully, this will lead up to the world we saw in Punisher vs. Marvel Universe a year or so ago.
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