One can’t help but miss the days of Jason Aaron when reading Jason Latour and Mahmud Asrar’s Wolverine and the X-Men. Now, judging a book based on how it compares to its former incarnation is almost never fair, but it is a must here considering how Latour and Asrar’s run seems to be trying so very desperately to be like its predecessor. Unfortunately, this imitation pales in comparison to the original.
Latour has replaced genuine character quirks with dated pop culture references -- two students exchange “Yo Mama” jokes and it falls chillingly flat -- and simplicity of plot with a story that, three issues in, is already utterly convoluted. He’s even thrown in a young CEO character as a villain that just comes across as Kade Kilgore 2.0.
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