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Title: Codename Wolverine (X-Men Series) by Christopher Golden ISBN: 0-425-17111-6 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great book for fans of Logan, codename Wolverine
Comment: I recently purchased this novel and read it in about a day and half. I have always been a fan of Logan/Wolverine and I found this book rather enjoyable. Before this novel I had little knowledge of Team X. I knew Sabretooth and Wolverine were in it but that was about it. This novel is cut up into "Now" sections and "Then" sections. I enjoyed mainly the "Now" portion, a tale about Logan and Mystique trying to find kidnapped members of Team X along with the Black Widow and Sean "Banshee" Cassidy with a little help from Nick Fury (Mystique in disguise). I know a lot of people that prefer the "Then" portions that revolves around a Team X mission in Germany involving the KGB. Althogh the "Then" portions reveals a little history about Team X and the grudge between Sabretooth and Wolverine, I definetly liked the Logan/Mystique tale. This novel, which every chapter begins with a good illustration, is a definite must for any fan of Wolverine. Which there are many now that the X-Men movie has been out for a good while.
Rating: 3
Summary: About as good as it gets....
Comment: I will admitt--I'm a huge comic book fan. Even now, as I enter into adulthood, I've yet to shake my addiction to them. Since I'm such a fan, I've read a few of these novels that Marvel churns out. Some range from absolute trash (The Fantastic Four: Countdown to Chaos comes to mind) to average (Duane's Spider-Man books), but Codename: Wolverine is perhaps one of the best of the whole bunch.
Kudos to Christopher Golden for writing an entertaining novel that manages to come across well without being silly (let's be honest: It's a little hard to write a "serious" novel when your characters are called "Wolverine" and "Sabretooth"). The book is broken into two sections, "Now" and "Then", and Golden switches back and forth between the two perspectives.
The "Then" section serves to explain the events occurring in the "Now" section. Personally, I found the early story about Wolverine and Team X to be the better of the two. Golden manages to create a pretty interesting narrative about Team X as they fight behind the Iron Curtain to retrieve a computer disk filled with spy info from the KGB's best operative, the beautiful but deadly Black Widow. Throw in on-the-edge Interpol agent Sean Cassidy (aka Banshee), who bears a supreme grudge against the Widow, and the mysterious shapeshifter Mystique, and the action intensifies. Golden does some pretty good work with this story, weaving in lots of espionage, backstabbing, inter-team conflict, and some pretty entertaining fight scenes. He seems to have a good grasp of each character's personality, and I liked the development he did with certain characters such as the Widow (for example, by the end of the "then" portion, she begins to question her role as a KGB spy, which foreshadows her eventual defection). There is a surplus of characters in this book as well, but overall I think Golden did each of them justice. One thing that I was surprised with was the level of violence in the book. It's not overly graphic--no one will be confusing this book with a Tarantino film--but it is a realistic look at the harsh work of a black ops unit. After dealing for so long with the soft-shoe approach of the comics (where every character is seemingly immortal), I found it refreshing that Golden would actually show the lethal consequences of the character's actions.
Unfortunately, I was not so impressed with the "now" section of this book. It started off promising, with Sabretooth being kidnapped by a government agency for some nefarious purpose. It seems as if the government is systematically using their new, elite black ops unit, "Team Alpha", to kidnap and imprison all the old members of Team X as well as those individuals who took part in the op in the "then" section (basically: Banshee, Widow, and Mystique). Mystique escapes capture herself, and is able to warn Wolverine, but the two are too late to save the others. The author promises a payoff, explaining exactly why these superheroes and villains are being captured, but when the true motive for the crime is revealed, it's terribly anti-climactic. The whole thing was some sort of silly revenge scheme to placate a senator who's vote is more important than the lives of Team X? A disappointing ending, indeed. More thought could have been put into this part of the book.
Overall, though, I think this book is worth owning. If you a fan of the comic, and Wolverine especially, you'll enjoy the novel. In my opinion, the "then" section is worth the price of the book alone.
Rating: 2
Summary: Pretty slow
Comment: After reading Golden's great 'Predator's Smile' Daredevil novel, I was excited to see what he would do with Wolverine. While not
a bad book, the pacing is slow and the action is kind of far
between for a Wolverine tale. All the characters seemed a little
too two dimensional unlike 'Predator' which brought out the best
in all the cast. While I hate to do this, as I am a Golden fan,
you should pass on this one and read 'Predator'. (If you like
DD anyway)
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Title: The Chaos Engine : Book 1 (X-Men: Doctor Doom) by Steven A. Roman, Stan Timmons ISBN: 0743434838 Publisher: I Books/Marvel Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: X-Men/Magneto: The Chaos Engine, Book 2 by Steven A. Roman ISBN: 0743445465 Publisher: I Books/Marvel Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Marvel Legends: Wolverine Meltdown (Wolverine Legends) by Walter Simonson, Louise Simonson, Jon J. Muth, Kent Williams ISBN: 0785110488 Publisher: Marvel Entertainment Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Wolverine (Marvel's Finest) by Chris Claremont ISBN: 087135277X Publisher: Marvel Entertainment Group Pub. Date: 01 May, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Essential Wolverine, Vol. 4 by Larry Hama, Dwayne Turner, Adam Kubert ISBN: 0785109706 Publisher: Marvel Entertainment Group Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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