This was a cool visual experience. It was like if Wolverine met Ghost in the Shell or Blade Runner. The story wasn't deep, but it worked just fine and I'd be lying if I said didn't have a fun time with goth Logan's 80's sci-fi dystopian, Timey Whimey adventure. The action flows well and I loved the overall feel of the whole thing. Nice distraction, this one.

Awesome illustrations in this futuristic manga that takes Logan to a desolate apocalypse. Snikt! Is The Matrix meets Fury Road.
Thank you Viz Media for the digital review copy.

Wolverine: Snikt!
Written and Illustrated by Tsutomu Nihei
136 pages
Release Date: June 13, 2023 by Viz Media
5/5 Stars
*An ARC of this title was provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Receiving a copy in no way influenced my review*
A manga about Wolverine? So what? That was my honest reaction to hearing and seeing this. Now, let us first clear up a misconception. This is not a new book. This manga was originally released in 2003. This is a new edition with a new introduction and includes some of the original sketches done by Nehei for the books and the original covers without any of the print matter ruining them.
Now, on to the part that matters, the book. Nihei presents us with a Wolverine we have not really seen before. Young, alone, and not full of sarcastic comments and biting wit. He is full of fury, confusion and violence (you know, more about the Snikt!). Wolverine is confronted a girl who then whisks him away to the future without informing him what is happening. They are separated and immediately he is confronted by one of the creatures that are terrorizing and killing the people of this time. Wolverine soon finds out that most of the population has been killed, and this group of survivors need his help to save humanity. The story serves the purpose, is nothing completely original but finds reason and a little bit of commentary to give it some purpose, which is mainly for us to look at the beauty of Nihei’s artistry.
The artwork is magnificent, presenting us with a dystopian world caught between H.R. Giger alien creatures and the Terminator style cyborgs with guns while terrifying the reader with creatures that morph from the person next to. Nihei’s dripping artwork helps create the tension, horror and violence in the story by elongating actions, expressing the bleakness of the situations through black and white vistas of emptiness.
I have long been a fan of Wolverine (as I think anyone who is a male from my generation will say) and this serves as an excellent addition to his stories, with artwork that needs to be used as a model on how to create a comic/manga. Thank you, Nihei.

Very interesting book. Half way between manga and comic book, closer to manga but with color and inspired by a very American comic character. Very interesting!

This is my honest review of an ARC from NetGalley.

Wolverine: Snikt! by Tsutomu Nihei adds a new Wolverine adventure to the Marvel universe. Any Wolverine fan will enjoy reading this one. In some ways, I found the art style to be a bit rough, rather than the clean comic style I'm used to, but it really added to the bleakness of the post-apocalyptic setting. And since Wolverine is a rough character, it works for his story.

In this story, Wolverine is transported by someone who needs his help to a post-apocalyptic future earth in order to save the world. The story is compelling, the art, while a bit rough, is engaging, the dialogue moves the story along, and the action scenes are well-done and easy to follow. Nothing is too dragged out. There is enough story and action to entice readers while not being so heavy on either that it becomes boring. I will say that the story was a bit slow to start, but once I got into the book, about the third part, I really enjoyed it.

While not my preferred style, the artwork was very good. Nice to see Wolverine on his own and I did like that the story didn't follow the usual format for this type of story. Action heavy, dialogue light if that's your sort of comic. The only reason I don't rate this higher is because I feel like there aren't any real "costars" in this story, just "background characters". Hard to make you feel anything for the other characters without fleshing out their stories a little bit. In the author's defense, I'm not sure they were given the number of issues required to tell the story. But if you want to see Wolverine tear things up (and who doesn't?), this is for you.

This book appeared to have been written by someone who had only at best a passing familiarity of Wolverine and reduced him to merely his claws and adamantium laced skeleton, but seemed to know nothing of his personality. The plot is paper-thin, and the artwork makes everyone look exactly alike.

Nihei's hyperkinetic action and industrial landscapes seems a natural fit for the Marvel treatment, and Wolverine isn't a bad choice. The effect here is to drop Marvel's pugnacious, metal clawed mutant into one of Nihei's techno-organic dystopias and let him run with it. This reprint of the 2003 miniseries shows its age, both in Nihei's more frenetic linework compared to recent efforts, Marvel's color style guide of the era, and the somewhat basic story.

It's neither the strongest Nihei work (though it keeps his kinetic use of action and style of works like BLAME!, it lacks the nuance or artistic polish of recent work like Knights of Sedonia or Aposimz) nor the strongest use of Wolverine, but it is a fun diversion to see how Nihei plays with a Marvel hero dropped into one of his worlds. There's a lot of tearing biomechanical monsters in half, with black fluids standing in for blood; but little in the way of on-the-page violence to sympathetic characters, making this a good fit for teens with an interest in body horror or gore.

The book is full color, and it's an odd effect. Humans are depicted in shades of grey, while Nihei's landscapes and monsters are full color, with a late-90's/early 2000's-Marvel style metallic sheen to all the surfaces. This produces a more three dimensional effect to the art, but distracts from the kinetic linework that Nihei is so well known for, making it a little less kinetic. A few of Nihei's original pages are shown in black-and-white at the end of the book, and it's a shame the book wasn't presented in this format. Still, this will almost certainly be someone's favorite Wolverine story for the mix of Nihei's artistic style and Marvel's famous antihero.

*Thanks to NetGalley and VIZ media for the E-Galley review copy*

This is a republishing of the 2003 mini series written by Tsutomu Nihei. This story sees Wolverine taken to the future to fight of bioweapons created in a science experiment gone wrong. The story has a Matrix vibe to it all, but it falls it bit flat as its all action and there isnt enough time to really experience the world so the story is told through multi-page info dumps which detract from the book as a whole. Overall its not bad just a bit meh.