One look at the cover and you think to yourself, “This is gonna be badass!!!”

A VERY cool pic of Logan in a Punisher shirt. It looks like a great cover to a “What If?” Unfortunately, that is where the cool ends. You open the book up to find very blocky and cartoonish pencils done by Terry Dodson. The first tile that Wolvie is even in, he looks like a friggin’ ape for Pete’s sake. The inks are okay for the time period (circa April 2003) courtesy of Rachel Dodson. I could get past the crappy look of the book (God knows I’ve done it before.) if the story was any good. This was not to be the case. The writing was just as lame as the look. It seems to me that Frank Tieri couldn’t write his way out of a… a… I can’t even think of a slam. That’s how bad this book is. The entire story is yet another pointless cape fight. Each calling the other a mass murderer and such. Blah, blah, blah. I get it they’re BOTH complicated characters living in gray areas. This is the ENTIRE story. The only reason Wolverine won the fight was it was his book. It could just as easily been turned the other way were it a Castle title. That in and of itself makes this story unimportant, unexciting and pointless. If you come across this book, seriously don’t bother picking it up. That said, whoever did the cover ROCKS! Why the hell didn’t they do the book???

(Wolverine, Vol. 1 #186, Marvel Comics)