Product Description

...an all-new graphic story album, combining text from top crime writer Greg Rucka and lavish, painted illustrations from Yoshitaka Amano, Japan's most acclaimed artist. This deluxe hardback edition comes complete with new story and art, not previously seen. A must for all collectors of serious comics work. Two of Marvel's most enduring icons come together for an explosive confrontation, a tale of mysterious pasts and uncertain futures. Elektra, the ninja-trained assassin with a heart as cold as ice, and Wolverine, the adamantium-clawed mutant hero from the X-Men, together they must solve a centuries old mystery...if they don't kill each other in the process!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #699295 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

About the Author
Greg Rucka is the author of the acclaimed Whiteout, Queen and Country, and has written extensively on Batman, including being primary author of the Detective Comics title in 2000. He is also a respected crime novelist. Yoshitaka Amano is one Japan's greatest talents, his work including Sandman: Dream Hunters, Vampire Hunter D and Final Fantasy.

Customer Reviews

I'm being generous when I say "average"
This is pretty much just an over-rated gallery.

The basic format is one page of writing, attempting to tell what they beleive to be some form of story, and then the next page is a glorified, self appreciative painting, which generally doesn't actually fit the 'story.'

It's nothing that we haven't seen before plot wise, and even though Wolverine may be missing chunks of memory, after everything he's been through why do people think he would beleive a government rep when they say they'll give him the information he wants if he does a job for them? They took one of the greatest characters and turned him into a lackey.

The paintings aren't that good, the quality is better in Wolverine Legends: Meltdown.

In terms of making us connect with the characters, allow me to give you an example:

"(Insert name) is in a field. They are bare foot and have no shirt on. (Insert name) has no shirt on because he/she was hot, and they are barefoot because their boots were wet."

I kid you not.

Excellent!
I came to this as a fan of Amano's art, and having only just heard of Elektra from the Daredevil movie. The Elektra in this book is set several years after the events in the film (if they even fit into the original story arc at all).

She's a colder, stranger character... while Wolverine is reliably similar to usual. In fact, as the author's commments point out, neither of them changes very much over the course of the story. This doesn't matter. The mixing of text and art is done in an incredibly effective and beautiful way, the storyline is excellent and the fight scenes particularly good. Amano makes Elektra into a force of nature - an unstoppable Ninja Goddess, while Wolverine's animal side is brought right out in the artwork to the point that he sometimes looks unrecognisably hairy and feral.

This book is beautifully put together, and the story doesn't disappoint. Much better than some of the other Wolverine and Elektra stand-alone titles available, and worth getting just for Amano's brilliant take on both of them.