Wolverine: Sabretooth Reborn (Wolverine (Marvel Hardcover)) Hardcover – 5 Feb. 2013

When will Marvel learnWhen you're dead. You dead. End of...And yet...sigh...a returnAnd Wolverine is able to dispatch several Sabretooths in one sittingIf it was that easy then why didn't he do that the first time roundWhat a load of old hokumGreat art work though

The story running through issues #310-313 of Marvel's Wolverine comic is collected as  Wolverine: Sabretooth Reborn (Wolverine (Marvel Hardcover)) . The story starts with Wolverine climbing up the Empire State Building to recue Cloak (of Cloak and Dagger) who is chained to the flagpole at the top. Why is Wolverine climbing the building? Wolverine is climbing the building in order to rescue Cloak. How did Wolverine know Cloak needed rescuing? Who knows? We are never told. Maybe it would have ruined the flow of the story and the dramatic opening sequence. They always star Bond films like this, after all. We are told that Sabretooth chained him there, though, and that he has kidnapped Dagger (of Cloak and Dagger). Wolverine is so surprised at this that he drops himself and Cloak (I'll stop the `and Dagger' routine now) off the building, for, as we all know, Sabretooth is dead. Well, I didn't, as I don't follow Wolverine's solo adventures, but I'll take his word for it. There are no handy little notes from the Editor telling us which issues stuff happened in in this story. Anyway, on the way down, Wolverine talks Cloak into teleporting them to Sabretooth's grave, where Wolverine digs up the body. He doesn't like the smell of it (not my joke), and remembers that he didn't really like the smell of it when he killed him. Anyway, it turns out that a baddie called Romulus - who I have never heard of before, but is apparently a serious baddie (but still no footnotes) from Weapon-X days - pops up and starts a fight; then a mysterious woman with red hair and a Japanese-Italian accent pops up to rescue Wolvie. Anyway, long story short, they visit the Weapon-X facility which is up and running and producing Sabretooth clones; more fighting, big explosions, off to Italy, more fighting, big explosions, big reveal that Romulus was a big pal of Wolvie back in the day, and that Wolvie volunteered for the Weapon-X experimentation, and more big explosions. Oh, and lots of blood-spattering action-packed fights throughout, but no helpful footnotes. I have no idea if this is all `true' or if they are making it up, as it were.I found this volume in my local library and gave it a read. It was a quick read, but not having read Wolverine's solo comic-book adventures, it meant little to me. Anyway, the artwork is perfect for a big ultra-violent action adventure; the scripting is suitably laconic, and if you care about Wolverine, you'll probably want to make it five-stars (or possibly one, if they are messing around with his origins again).