The Death of Wolverine is pretty much everything I want out of an event comic. It's short and self-contained. All the tie-ins are reserved for after the after the core story wraps. It's shipping on a weekly schedule, meaning it'll be over and done with in a month. And it features two of Marvel's most talented creators tackling the swan song of one of their most popular heroes. Unless you hate the idea of reading a story that telegraphs its ending in its title, there's a lot to love in the first issue of this mini-series.
The title tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the series, but even beyond that, Death of Wolverine #1 makes itself very open and accessible to new readers. It doesn't really dwell on any of the particulars of Paul Cornell's Wolverine run other than the basic idea that Wolverine's healing factor is broken and he's more vulnerable than he's ever been. And truth be told, the continuity between Charles Soule's Death of Wolverine and Cornell's Wolverine is pretty shoddy. This issue reads as if it were taking place shortly after Cornell's first story arc, with Logan still dealing with the concept of being mortal and the villains of the Marvel U. beginning to circle him like hungry sharks. It's almost as if the events of last year's "Killable" storyline and the entirety of Wolverine Vol. 6 never unfolded. That's probably a side effect of this book being in the works for so long. Steve McNiven needs time to do his thing, after all. And at the end of the day, I'd rather have a comic that tells a complete and satisfying story in and of itself rather than one that perfectly aligns with the 3000 other comics Wolverine has appeared in over the last year. But the discrepancies do stand out at times.
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