What If? Wolverine: Enemy Of The State
by: curvezilla 1 year, 10 months, 5 days, 9 hours, 53 minutes ago
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2.99
Jimmie Robinson
Carmine Di Giandomencio
Marvel
This may be the very worst “What If” comic I have ever read! Wolverine kills every superhero just because he can teleport and is in a state of constant rage. I mean come on! Wolverine kills Magneto by teleporting out of Magneto’s magnetic hold and stabbing him from behind. If it was that easy you would think Wolverine and Nightcrawler would have perfected this move years ago. So Hydra has brainwashed Wolvie and is using him to kill all the Marvel Supes. Not only did they brainwash him they can teleport him to anywhere at any time as long as they have seen the place. I shouldn’t even be writing this review right now because I am still hacked off at how stupid the story was. So the setup is that Captain America, Magneto, Invisible Woman and Kitty Pryde are going to lure Wolvie into a titanium reinforced, concrete reinforced S.H.I.E.L.D. base.
Because the base only has one entrance (so they think) they are going to herd Wolvie in and capture him so they can deprogram him. So as they are waiting for the most dangerous mutant on the planet, he comes up through the (Super Hardened, Titanium, Concrete reinforced) floor stabbing Invisible Woman in the feet. So at the time they are facing the worst killer ever and he has already cut off Cap’s arm and leg in a previous battle, Invisible Woman doesn’t even have her force field up. What?!?!?! Then she puts the force field on his head to squeeze out the oxygen and Wolvie gives himself a Tracheotomy. Couldn’t she have just extended the bubble? So then Wolvie kills her, kills Magneto who could turn him into a pretzel with a thought and then kills double amputee Captain America. Kitty Pryde is the only one left and she tries to reason with Wolvie. Not a good idea. She finally figures out she has to do what has to be done and she phases her arm into his brain and face them becomes solid and Wolverine cuts her arm off, killing her. So now Wolverine is dead because he has an arm through his head. Nick Fury is there lamenting everyone and picking up the pieces. So how do you supposed an arm through the head kills Wolvie and that he can’t heal from that when he has had so many more catastrophic injuries in the past? This whole story was a joke! Take some time to write a good story.
Ooh, that hurts. Correct me if i’m wrong, but I think that’s our first 0 rating.
oh, fagzilla my boy, wake up. IT’S A FRICKIN WHAT IF STORY!!! It’s supposed to be stupid, campy and/or silly. But wait, that’s most of Marvel’s creative process these days, so I can see how YOU would be guppy’d into reading it.
It is now official, they ran out of good ideas so they had to use this one. What a stretch! I would like it better if they just stuck a gun in my ribs and said, “give me the money”.
(and please use a BIG gun so I won’t feel like it was a cheesy rip off) 
ya mean like Punisher War Journal #1? Or the Top Book to Waste Your Money in 2006, Onslaught Reborn. Sort of relates to another article on here right now. (btw, Rob Liefeld has never been comparable to Jack Kirby) In all seriousness, no What IF? book should be taken with any weight. It’s like watching Space Balls and getting pissed that they screwed up the Star Wars mythology.
Booger is a Marvel Hater and Curvezilla is above such pettiness. Curvezilla just loves good stories and good art and hates when Marvel puts out crap. No Booger would say that is all crap, but we know that isn’t true. Curvezilla will continue to buy Marvel comics from Booger, making him richer than Bill Gates.
Marvel’s been hiding behind the ‘hate the game, not the player’ bunk for too long. I’m no Marvel hater, they do pay 41% of my bills. But if they’re going to put out mediocre product, I’m gonna bitch about it. When they put out solid products, I applaud them. I liked Newuniversal #1. But White Tiger? Are you kiddin me?
Also, did anyone notice the spider-danglies in Spider-man Reign #1? Yikes, totally un-called-for.
Not sure Marvel or anyone can be let off the hook so easy by saying it is a “what if” edition. Shouldn’t there be SOME standard of quality? Instead it just seems like a “what if” excuses every thing. In the above example:
Space Balls = Mel Brooks
Star Wars = George Lucas
Would we really have the expectation of Mel that his work will equate with George? We should be able to see “George” if Marvel makes it.
What IF has been coming out, sporadically, for almost 30 years. Some times its done as a look at what things would have been like if certain events occured differently. Most of the time, mainly of recent years, it is done as a tongue-in-cheek, whimsical ‘just suppose’ kind of thing. Confusing ‘quality’ with the liking or disliking of the question posed is the main culprit here. My point from the first post was to remind curvezilla of this. As far as the quality of the book goes, it is of average quality of writing and art, with above average (now considered standard) production quality.