Review: Wolverine, PATCH Issue #2

Welcome back to Coffee, Cannabis and Comics. If you missed the review of PATCH issue #1 you can check it out here. A reminder I will be reviewing the following:

• Cover Art

• Story

• Overall Rating 5 star rating system from Comic Geeks App

I’ve gotten to experience the excitement of going to the comic book shop to pick up the next issue only to be disappointed when it’s not there. That was fun, for all of 5 seconds. After walking around for a bit and trying not to get interested in another series, I headed out for another shop in downtown Denver called Mile High Comics. It was freaking huge and slightly overwhelming at first. But once I walked around the entire place and figured out where things were it was a bit easier to digest. Eventually after about 15 minutes or so, I found issue #2 of PATCH. Stopped at my local dispensary as well and for this issue I smoked some Ice Box Pie from Billo and that is where we begin…

Cover Now this cover is completely opposite of issue #1. The cover on issue #1 was primarily dark/black featuring PATCH/Wolverine in a suit, giving me major 007 vibes. On issue #2 we see him with his clothes shredded, his hair disheveled and his claws fully out engaged in a fight with Beth in front of a sunrise(sunset?) background. Beth is also featured on the cover of the first issue, but only her head is visible. She and her brother are mutants with enhancements, just like PATCH. Also one thing to note, the #1 issue I own of PATCH is a second printing.

Looks like we’ll be getting these S.H.I.E.L.D. dossier’s with each issue, great way to recap the previous issue.

Story Love that they did a S.H.I.E.L.D. Dossier again as the opening spread. It gave me a quick overview of issue 1:

At the end of issue 1 PATCH encounters Beth and her brother Gimel, enhanced Russian mutants, that proceed to beat the shit out of PATCH. Leaving him for dead, or so they thought. He gets back up and follows the trail of blood left behind by Beth. Issue 2 opens up with PATCH searching through the wooded area for the two that attacked him, then he notices the SHIELD Helicarrier still up in the area above the area he’s investigating. On the Helicarrier, a soldier mentions something about the mutants not showing up on radar anymore and vanishing.

The text “wip wip wip” is so well placed and written that I can imagine this entire scene perfectly

PATCH is getting attacked once again but by a tribe native to the land, meanwhile a KGB agent Major Tatiana Nemikova shows up to meet with the Prince. The man who hired PATCH in the first place.

It seems like everyone is spying on everyone at this point. Because S.H.I.E.L.D. is spying on the land overhead, Archie and Tyger are also flying around spying on General Coy, who seems to be up to something in the area that PATCH is investigating. Anyways something is going on, the natives of the land are scared of everyone but also investigating why the monkeys of the forest are being kidnapped.

This panel was freaking crazyyyy

Things seem to be all over the place. General Coy and his men happen upon PATCH and the natives but after realizing they are not enemies they seem to be working with each other now. A gun fight ensues, natives are shot down as their bow and arrows prove no match for the guns the army had. BUT THEN PATCH gets back up and starts slicing and dicing the group of soldiers. We are blessed with this badass panel of PATCH’S claws uppercutting a soldier. Again I love how the text is treated across these big action panels.

PATCH and the surviving natives end up reaching a cave and out comes the Russian enhanced mutants. As they take care and help PATCH regenerate, a new character appears. Jean!

Overall Rating I give this a 4/5. There was a bunch of action and awesome panels but I was lost for a second with the different groups. It took me reading a couple times to understand who was all in play.

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Review: Wolverine, PATCH Issue #1

Hi there and welcome back to Coffee, Cannabis and Comics. If you missed my last post about my first comic book experience you can check it out here. Before we begin, let me give an overview of how I will be reviewing each comic issue, starting with Wolverine PATCH, issue #1.

My plan is to do a short snippet of the following:

• Cover Art

• Story

• Overall Rating 5 star rating system from Comic Geeks App

Now let’s get started on this comic book review. I picked this issue up because since growing up with Hugh Jackman playing an awesome Wolverine, I wanted to experience something different. Almost like the last movie Hugh Jackman did Logan. I also visited my local dispensary on the same day and picked up some concentrates to enjoy while reading my comics. For this issue I smoked Slurricane by Billo, it was nice indica that helped me relax and appreciate the art on each page of this comic. 

Cover At first glance this cover piqued my interest because Wolverine is in a suit. Then I noticed he was wearing a patch and that the issue was called PATCH. Other than Wolverine I didn’t know anyone else on the cover; but that didn’t really bother me. I was more interested in Wolverine and this other side of him. I did a quick flip through the pages and decided to add it to my basket. The art style does a great job showing character emotions, action and is easy to follow along.

The SHIELD Dossier was a great little overview before reading.

Story What I thought was pretty freakin cool was the S.H.I.E.L.D. Dossier that is included in the very beginning of the comic. It gave me a quick overview:

Wolverine is currently living incognito under the alias Patch in Madripoor(I thought this was a real city, but it is in fact a fictional island located in maritime Southeast Asia according to marvelfandom) His base of operations is at the Princess Bar that he co-owns with Tyger Tiger and remains a powerful ally but because he sometimes goes off on his own, S.H.I.E.L.D. has him on their radar. 

Seems like everyone is wearing a patch these days.

It opens up with Patch chillin in the Princess Bar and being approached for a job to handle out in the mountain reserves. Patch isn't even remotely interested but upon hearing of CHA-CHING, he decides to check it out. So he heads out with his partner Archie Corrigan and proceeds to make me fall out of my chair laughing. Why? Well to stay out of  S.H.I.E.L.D.’s radar and to avoid Nicholas Fury, Patch just jumps out of the f***ing plane and crash lands in the forest and cracks all his bones back into place. It ended up being my favorite panel in the entire book. 

This whole spread was awesome. Love how the sound effects are overlayed the image.

As he’s walking and wondering why he hasn’t come near the site yet he gets jumped. Beth and Gimel who I don’t know if they are mutants or enhancements. Turns out they are both, they beat the crap out of Patch and leave him for dead. Now while all of this is going on, Archie and Tyger think there is something else going on with someone named General Coy in the area where Patch just went. It ends with Patch regenerating and following the trail of blood left behind by the two who jumped him. 

Overall Rating on Comic Geeks I gave this issue a 5 out of 5 stars. I was informed right in the beginning of what was going on, who was involved and then thrusted into action. The art was compelling and the writing was easy to digest as well. Be sure to look out for my review of Wolverine Patch issue #2.

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