WOLVERINE EPIC COLLECTION: THE DYING GAME Paperback – December 1, 2015

This is Wolverine at his best and he never looked better. The art is as much a part of the story as the narrative and it brings Wolverine's dominating presence to life. Adam Kubert used to be amazing when he was allowed to take his time. Unfortunately, he's a shadow of his former self today.The story takes place after having the adamantium ripped from his skeleton, and forcing Wolverine into a more feral state. Logan has to struggle to maintain his humanity and decide if he still has a place with the X-Men. Plus, a great team-up with my favorite X-Man, Gambit!

This is what commercial comic book should look like.The story is attractive yet makes sense and is intriguing. Makes you want more, there IS a plot and there is action.Dialogues and narration are well written and don't take out much of dynamics.Artwork is on the edge of exaggerated and yet anatomy and perspective are okay.Forget about Marvel Essentials, which were destroyed by grey shade reprint. Get this and save money for more to come in Wolverine Epic Collections.

Great storyline by Larry Hama with excellent artwork by Adam Kubert as well. Wolverine bumps into Sabretooth, Deadpool, Gambit, Ghost Rider, Cyber, Juggernaut, etc, on his way to encountering Genesis and his post-adamantium plan in issue #100. Still hoping they will release issues 75-86 as a trade as well. Great story there too that builds up to these issues. 75-100 are all must-haves.

My brothers favorite Marvel character is Wolverine so I go this for his birthday. He Loves it!

Some good stories about Wolverine from 1994 through 1996. I owned these issues as a kid, and for the most part, they hold up fairly well. You also get to see a lot of guest appearances by other X-Men characters from the time. Most of the stories are one-shots, but there is the recurring plot of Wolverine losing his humanity, becoming more feral, how he's coping, and whether he even has a problem with it. At this point, Wolverine had also lost his Adamantium year before the release of the first issue of this collection, and would not get it back for another 4 years after the last issue's release. Not much is resolved and Wolverine is not in a good place at the end of this collection. It's not a complete story with a beginning, middle, and end, but more of a snapshot of a specific point in Wolverine's history. If you go into it with that understanding, then it's a compelling read with some really good character stuff for Wolverine and good interactions between him and various other characters. Artwork is okay in parts, though some of the facial expressions are kind of laughable. Overall, not the best Wolverine stories out there, but worth having a look at.While the material collected is, for the most part, solid, the construction of this epic collection has way too many problems that hurt the reading experience. The gutter loss is absolutely out of control here. These issues have a ton of two-page spreads, panels that take up both pages, etc., and this was fine if you were reading the single issues, but horrible when reading this epic collection. The gutter loss makes it completely impossible to read some of the word balloons and captions herein, which means you could be missing crucial information. Also, as mentioned in another review, Issue 90 had fold-out pages, which should have been reproduced here (they could have done that if they wanted to), but were instead shrunk to fit neatly into a normal page, thus ruining the experience. Issue 90 was also hit hardest by the gutter loss.

I couldn't get into it. Wolverine just has his bone claws and he's starting to act like an animal again. There are guest appearances by many famous marvel characters but I just don't like it. It's a big book thought and the art is very good.

HUGE! Full color. Individual issues storylines and artwork run from good to excellent. Good balance of dialog and action. Great price.

Fantastic

Larry Hama deveria ter um reconhecimento maior do seu trabalho, como escritor regular de um título mensal ele é excelente, fica anos e anos num título escrevendo histórias de um nível muito bom, sem deixar a peteca cair.Aqui ainda tem a ajuda de Adam Kubert desenhando em alto nível.

Wolverine Epic Collection: The Dying Game is another band of classic Wolverine adventures from the 80's! A VERYM VERY NICE STORIES FEATURING OUR FAVOURITE MUTANT! THE BEST WAY TO REVISIT A TRU CLASSIC!

We're smack in the midst of the nineties as volume 8 of Wolverine's Epic Collection (Volume 1 is already available) covers the 1994-1996 period of his solo title. It was an age of excess, so do not expect too much subtlety from the stories in these pages. However, the majority of the issues herein ARE still written by longtime Wolvie scribe Larry Hama, so they still provide plenty of entertainment, even if they are far from his best.At this stage in Wolverine's career, he is still struggling to deal with the loss of his adamantium (ripped from him by Magneto some time before), and his resulting regression into a more feral state. The main story arc of this volume deals with a mysterious group who intend to rectify that situation, and that plotline powers along in the background as Logan teams up with Gambit and Ghost Rider, tangles with Deadpool, Sabretooth and Juggernaut, and visits his former protégée Jubilee in the Generation X team. The adamantium storyline comes to a head in an oversized 100th issue that concludes the volume.Hama knows Logan's inner voice well, and much of the story is told through his terse voiceover; while the constant uberviolence of his various battles starts to wear, especially presented en masse like this, the inner turmoil of a man constantly tempted to give in to his slowly growing animal side is well presented and interesting. The regular penciller of the time, Adam Kubert (of the famous Kubert artistic clan), while somewhat plagued by the unnecessary over-detail of the era, produces some lovely figure work and startlingly expressive facial expressions. In what I can only assume was an experiment, the comic has several two-page sequences where you have to hold the book on its side to read them; while different, they are more of an annoyance than anything else.Originally, the book was interrupted by the Age of Apocalypse event, and replaced by the Weapon X comic for a few months. Seeing as the issues are from a separately-titled book that deals with an alternate universe and is easily available in the Age of Apocalypse trades, the otherwise admirably completist Epics have seen fit to exclude them here; it is probably a good call.Also included in this volume is the Wolverine: Knight of Terra graphic novel, by John Ostrander and Jan Duursema, concerning Wolverine's adventures as a champion in a strange fantasy land populated by ersatz versions of the X-Men. Truthfully, the story is more of a Wolfsbane tale with Wolverine as an occasional presence, and as it is a sequel to a previous story set in the same world, is not the most comfortable fit smack bang in the middle of this collected run. Still, that aforementioned completist ethic means it is there for those that want it.There are the usual bonus materials, like posters, trading card art and an article from Marvel Vision, but this collection, while well-presented, is not one of the finest runs of Wolverine's solo book. And while there are certainly chunks of script and pages of art that ARE pretty good, this volume is, perhaps, one just for collectors of the complete run.

Wolverine fazendo o seu melhor! Grandes histórias!

Marvel Mutant Universe took a massive nose dive after Fatal Attractions storyline. This tpb collects post that storyline, and it is bad. Despite the fact that Larry Hama is writing it, and Kubert is penciling it, the stories are so bad, so telephoned in, I remember reading these back in the day, and bought this collection for nostalgia but could not even read halfway through. Not the worst Wolverine stories but still up there.