Is there every a writer you read and you're like "Yeah, i get the appeal. His ideas are sound. But his writing style is just not for me." ?

That's Chris Claremont for me.

I mean I give the man his dues, he made the X-Men a superstar series with memorable characters left and right. So I'm not trying to take anything away from the guy. But man, his dialogue just does not work for me at all, especially on Wolverine.

So anyway this is a big omnibus and with a good idea to open with Weapon X. A dark, screwed up, moody look into the early days of Logan in the weapon X program. Being used like a tool to creature a monster. This is a dark as hell take and worked on almost all levels. Besides being a bit confusing at times, this is the type of stories Wolverine should be in.

But soon after were taken back to Wolverine and his time on his lonesome self. These stories range from decent (Kitty and Wolverine working together is the best story of the bunch probably) to downright bad (The stuff closer to issue 7-9 of the long running wolverine series are dreadful Hulk team ups that are just not fun.

Overall a mixed bag in the end. For the weapon x story alone this gets it up to a 3 star rating but without that lookin closer to a 2...2.5 tops.