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Hunt for Wolverine by Charles Soule
3.0

The Hunt for Wolverine is here! It's time to find Logan because...well he sells a lot so let's go fucking find him people.

This is split up into 4 different storylines, or actual books, that all come together by the end. We have Daredevil leading a team of mostly investigators and detectives on the hunt for wolverine. Then we have the Avengers of sorts (Luke Cage, Iron-man, Jessica Jones, Spider-man, and eventually Laura) who promised Logan something and plan on helping to find the body. Then have a group of x-women who are trying to find their friend Logan which includes people like Kitty, Storm, Domino, and more. Last but not least you have the story of these Mutants who have some relation to Logan. Lady Deathstrike, Sabertooth, and Draken all come together, not to help logan, but to find and kill him again.

Good: The two best storylines going are Soule's daredevil team up and Tom Taylor's Avengers like team up. Both stories have some great character moments, especially Taylors writing of Avengers team (please give him a team book with the Avengers Marvel). I also enjoyed the Sabertooth, Draken, and Lady Deathstrike fighting off zombies and losing their ability to heal and trying to survive. Was dumb but fun.

Bad: The X-Women team up was less than fun. I really didn't get the connection with the characters and besides a fun little "This is what Logan gave me" at the start of each chapter I didn't really care for their personality traits here. I also thought the ending of the entire collection was just okay and lead to "Oh so THAT'S where he is but...now we gotta read more"

Overall it's not a terrible cross over events. You can actually read each graphic novel by itself for these four stories. I'd say hunt down the Agenda and Daredevil team books, well worth the read. Both 3.5 and 4 out of 5. The zombie one is around a 2.5-3. And the X-Women team up is no more than maybe a 2. So overall around a 3-3.5. Check it out to lead up to the return of the big bad wolverine!