Thankfully, said deaths - murders, really - are often more alluded to than actually depicted, but it was still a persistent downer of a plot contrivance in a fairly good book. Our antihero Wolverine gets turned on to the dark side by the subversive terrorist group known as HYDRA (a mainstay in Marvel, and a continual 'thorn in the side' for both Captain America and SHIELD's top cop Nick Fury), and in just a week's time he brutally slaughters 100 people - mainly federal agents, police officers, and even paramedics trying to treat his injuries in one instance - with further plans to murder his fellow superheroes and then the President of the United States. so where did it go wrong for me? The nagging real-world implications of the violence. "Get a grip, Wolverine! You've been brainwashed by HYDRA! They're making you do this, man!" - vigilante Matt 'Daredevil' Murdock, fiercely tussling with our indoctrinated title characterĮnemy of the State was excellently paced graphic novel, with an action-heavy plot punctuated by some occasionally snarky and out-of-left-field dialogue.
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