Wolverine 3, Revolutionary War - Motormouth 1

Wolverine 3
Cornell (w) and Stegman, Morales, and Livesay (a) and Curiel (c)

Going for record speed on this review. Present day Wolverine's a little shaken by the man he killed with his new team and by his memories of the past, the day when he left his old team. Spider-Man threw him off the roof then caught him and let him swing down to the ground himself, where Jubilee met him and led him to a fight against anti-mutant robots. At the same time, Maria Hill tried to recruit him to go after Sabretooth. He declines all options and heads home to find a new costume from Spider-Man waiting for him. Meanwhile, Sabretooth, still wearing a suit, has decided to dedicate his life to becoming God.

As has been true for some time now, I continue to be bored by this series, both in its characters and in its presentation. The characters all sound rather the same with the very slight exception of Wolverine, who sounds very slightly more gruff, which you can tell by the way he knocks the "g" off of verbs ending in "ing." Everyone else is somewhat indistinguishable and the pacing continues to be off-the-charts slow. While Cornell tries to get new readers caught up on the saga of the new status quo for Wolverine, he ends up wasting issues trying to show that Wolverine is both frustrated and vulnerable. Somehow, that doesn't make for much compelling reading.

Revolutionary War - Motormouth 1
Dakin (w) and Cliquet (a) and Redmond (c)

Motormouth, another Marvel UK superhero, gets thrown into the fight against Mys-Tech, with whom she's had plenty of experience in the past, who are after her for her very special shoes. She and a group of neighborhood thugs team up to take out the agents they sent and to save both Motormouth and her kids, one of whom reveals that she has the power to see into her mother's head and remove memories if she so chooses. They decide, as a family, to go to Hell to help rescue Motormouth's old partner Killpower.

OKAY, first item of business, not sure if those names up above are correct. The cover states different names and the splash page for this one talks all about the stuff happening with Colonel Tigon Liger and refuses to even mention Motormouth. Granted, this series has worked in such a way that this is Motormouth's first appearance in these events so maybe that's intentional but Liger is barely even mentioned in this issue so I have my doubts. Furthermore, the distribution list I follow (which I'm already mad at this week) has the names above as the creative team but again defines the book as one seemingly about Tigon Liger. So I just don't know what to think. Anyway, it's another REVOLUTIONARY WAR book which means it's another disjointed and strangely paced and toned book showing a UK hero being forced into the fight against Mys-Tech and ending with the now very old ending of someone deciding to take matters into their own hands to stop the evil entity. I didn't end up reviewing the last one, REVOLUTIONARY WAR - SUPERSOLDIERS because I rather ran out of time in the week and it's good to know that, as I guessed at the time, I didn't actually miss a beat.