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{Dоwnlоаd/Rеаd PDF Bооk} Wolverine: Noir WOLVERINE: NOIR PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Stuart Moore,C. P. Smith | 112 pages | 12 May 2010 | Marvel Comics | 9780785135470 | English | New York, United States Wolverine Noir #1 | CBR Take that away and change his backstory and it's not him anymore. Jun 30, logankstewart rated it really liked it Shelves: read , graphic-comics , library. The story, written by Stuart Moore and beautifully illustrated by C. Smith, fits the pulpy noir style perfectly. Jim Logan, a rich kid that took a wrong turn, is Wolverine Noir 2a private detective, along with his partner Dog. The story opens with a mysterious woman entering the office and soliciting a job, which they take on immediately. Through detective work and flashbacks, the plot unfolds, leading up to a stunning and shocking conclusion. I really enjoyed this collection. The series ran only four issues, but I would easily read future releases. It was very gritty and dark, commanding the reader to examine the pages and see what was lurking in the blacks. There are a few other collections in this series my library has, X-Men and Daredevil, that I plan to read as well. Mar 23, Tung rated it it was ok Shelves: graphic-novels. I have to give credit to Marvel for what it is attempting to do with its Marvel Noir series. After publishing stories about its iconic characters for decades, Marvel needed to inject creativity into its storytelling. And placing the Marvel characters with the richest and deepest personalities into a mystery noir setting is certainly being creative. Logan and his partner Dog are hired by a my I have to give credit to Marvel for what it is attempting to do with its Marvel Noir series. Logan and his partner Dog are hired by a mysterious Japanese woman who asks for their protection. When Dog goes missing on this mission, Logan searches for him, uncovering both a crime syndicate and dark memories from his past. Overall, I found this creative effort lacking. And for the most part, the prose and atmosphere are solid — as noir as noir can be. Appreciate the creative take, but for me this is a pass. I never actually read this book. Never got to, that is. It came in the mail, and I was in the middle of a book, and didn't get around to reading this for about two weeks. After being excited and anticipating an awesome take on my favorite Marvel character the cover is really badass , I opened it. Since it's a noir book, part of the gimmick is that it's prin I never actually read this book. Since it's a noir book, part of the gimmick is that it's printed on cheap pulpy paper. Because of that, somewhere between Amazon's warehouse and my doorstep, all of the inked words had worn off of the paper from the speechboxes. Every single fucking one. It looks like an incomplete comic book, just pictures and speechboxes but no words. I can tell that they were there, because when I hold a light directly over the page, you can somewhat see the ghost of where the letters were, but it's on almost every page, and absolutely unintelligible. I made a complaint with Amazon, but I guess I had reached a limit on how many days I had before I could return the book or something, because I never got a response. So there's ten bucks down the drain. I would recommend you not buy this, unless you wanna risk the possibility of throwing ten dollars on a picture book. If you're lucky enough to buy it and it actually be a normal copy, let me know how it was, I still want to read it. This is the first of the Marvel Noir series I've read, and everything that I've known about the style was from Sin City and the Rugrats episode where Tommy has to find something out about the malties. In Wolverine Noir, the art and writing stands up for itself and supports the weight of Logan's guilt for his brother Dog. Logan and Dog are detectives in the bowels of New York and for a four-issue series, a lot of shit goes down when Mariko Yashida strolls into the office and vaguely asks for help This is the first of the Marvel Noir series I've read, and everything that I've known about the style was from Sin City and the Rugrats episode where Tommy has to find something out about the malties. Logan and Dog are detectives in the bowels of New York and for a four-issue series, a lot of shit goes down when Mariko Yashida strolls into the office and vaguely asks for help. Like what was done in this series wasn't terrible, but Stuart Moore and C. Smith tried to aim for the moon and then some at the end when they could have settled for a closure that didn't have to fuck up Logan's whole life. Maybe "extra" would be the best word to describe this. I don't know if it's sadistic or funny that Logan's father's speech "On the fifth day, God created beasts" was the skeleton of the dialogue when you got characters like Dog and Wolverine. View 1 comment. Logan is recast as a down on his luck gumshoe from the late 30s where a dame walks into his office, offers him a case, and before he knows it he's up to his neck in trouble. Pure noir. Only here Logan isn't Wolverine, the self-healing mutant with the bone claws who becomes Weapon X, and so on; here he's just a regular guy with a chequered past who happens to be good with knives. The Marvel Noir series is a good idea but I'm beginning to see a trend in the books: the famous character is recast as Logan is recast as a down on his luck gumshoe from the late 30s where a dame walks into his office, offers him a case, and before he knows it he's up to his neck in trouble. The Marvel Noir series is a good idea but I'm beginning to see a trend in the books: the famous character is recast as an ordinary guy, he goes up against the mob, and it ends ambiguously. No different with Wolverine's story, which is a so-so tale of unrequited love and so of course doesn't end well. Some decent art, but the story never rises above the ordinary which has been the main problem with the Noir series - it has some good ideas but not enough to make the book anything approaching a must-read for comics fans. Jan 13, Sam Quixote rated it liked it. Jan 06, Brian rated it it was amazing. As a big fan of Noir and Superheroes this is right up my alley. I like the non-comic traditioal take on the character of Wolverine. Gone are his mutant powers, adamantium laced skeleton, and bone claws. This is a realistic take on Wolverine that is refreshing. Well written, the art fits the tone of the book. Highly recommended. Aug 13, Lissa rated it liked it Shelves: fiction , comics , read-in This is probably my favorite of the noir series that I've read so far. The art is dark, but I could actually see what was going on and didn't get the characters confused with one another always a plus , and the story was pretty good too. Wolverine is lacking his characteristic claws, but that's typical for the noir series, and there's some name-dropping that long-time fans of Wolverine will likely appreciate. Altogether, one of the more solid offerings for this series. Wolverine never had much of a character to start with, and his immense popularity seems to have led to it being stretched thinner in a hundred different directions. This is a decent enough Sin City style tale but there's no need for Wolverine to be in it. Jun 12, Caleb Abel rated it really liked it Shelves: mike-bc , comics Very good. Quick and easy and fun. Possibly my favorite of the Noir series so far. It was a very complete story that seemed true to the character, even though I only recognized a few ties to the original. The Noir series' detective format is cool but this is definitely not my favorite take on Wolverine. I would recommend it and the other Noir books to Frank Miller fans. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Readers also enjoyed. Graphic Novels Comics. About Stuart Moore. Stuart Moore. No recent wiki edits to this page. A trade paperback which reprints the Wolverine Noir miniseries. This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for:. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Comic Vine users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved. Tweet Clean. Cancel Update. Enraged, Logan takes out his knives left to him by Smitty and blacks out, waking up covered in blood and Dog scared and in a childlike state. The X-Men of this reality are a group of sociopathic teenagers recruited by discredited psychiatrist Charles Xavier , who ran the "Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters" in Westchester, New York in There, he took in juvenile delinquents and instead of reforming them, he further trained them in various criminal talents due to his belief that sociopathy was in fact the next state in human behavioral evolution.
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