Collecting issues #42-48 of Wolverine, this trade paperback features a very enjoyable tie-in to Marvel’s larger Civil War storyline. Wolverine attempts to hunt down Nitro, a villain who was responsible for hundreds of deaths at the beginning of Civil War. There are a number of plot twists and turns and revelations about some of the side events of Civil War that expand upon the main storyline. Some of the events bring into question the motivation of characters involved with the passing of the Superhero Registration Act.

Wolverine was one of my favorite Marvel characters back when I was reading Marvel comics 15 years ago. And while I enjoyed this book and thought the story was well written, I felt that the strength of the story was more about Civil War than about the character of Wolverine.

This is the only Civil War book I feel the need to comment on the art work. The art of Humberto Ramos may have worked for DC Comics’s Impulse series, but the cartoonish style of drawing characters with large feet does not work well for the gritty and more serious tone of Wolverine. But the art doesn’t distract from the decent storytelling.

Rating: 7.5 out of 10.