Last week I talked about how I’d be jumping, at least for a couple issues, onto the Wolverine bandwagon and seeing just what his title offered up. With Ron Garney on board, I was pretty excited to see what the former Spider-Man artist would bring to the title. Well, I grabbed issue 62 and now it’s time to see if my hunch paid off.

I’m not going to waste much time on this one. My hunch totally paid off. I don’t know how the Wolverine book was before #62 but most people have told me it was all kinds of awful. This issue seems like it’s a definitive step in the positive direction. A direction that leads to things that are much more rewarding and exciting than what readers have been getting for the past little while.

Off the top of my head, I can’t say I’ve read anything else written by Jason Aaron but he seems like a fairly good writer and is more than capable of not only telling an interesting story, but also successfully showing several flashback sequences and not losing the readers along the way. Some people *cough* Bendis *cough* really like to do flashback sequences and not clue in the reader on when or why they’re happening. In this issue of Wolverine, we’re given dates and locations. The flashbacks are also relevant to what’s actually happening in the comic which is always a plus. On a side note, I like Bendis’ writing for the most part. I’m not a Bendihater.

In my little rant last week, I mentioned that Ron Garney’s art was one of the selling features of this comic for me. His art, much like I expected, was really solid and really helped Aaron’s writing succeed on another level. I really enjoyed his work on Amazing Spider-Man right before Quesada took over so it’s nice to see that he was able to jump on board a solid title as a follow-up to his work on ASM.

Wolverine #62

8.9/10 (How’d you get that?)

It’s been a while since I had an urge to pick up a comic that wasn’t part of my regular reads and have to comic actually be good. Most of the impulse buys wind up being terrible, awful or even unreadable. Wolverine, on the other hand, was a real good read and I’m looking forward to seeing how this 4-part arc plays out. With a couple solid issues by Aaron and Garney, Wolverine could be enjoying a nice spot on my pull list.