Wolverine Origins- Our War by Daniel Way, Steve Dillon and Kaare Andrews

Captain America is dead, and Wolverine decides to remember him in his own way by sneaking into the museum holding the memorial statue and holding a little memorial of his own... along with a bottle of good whiskey.

Even though Wolverine can't get drunk, he wants to remember how he met Captain America so long ago. The two men couldn't be any less alike, and Wolverine was even asked to kill Captain America by his handlers, but their adventures together made Logan actually like the man, and his effect on the people around him, his obvious heroism and leadership skills, affected even a cynical, wry Canuck who had long lost his faith in other men.

But while Wolverine may have made friends with Captain America, his sidekick, Bucky Barnes, loathed Logan with a passion. But why? Well, they were too much alike. While Captain America supported all the best sides of America and its outlook, Bucky was there to serve the interests of Americans with far fewer morals than those of the Captain.

While Cap was fighting with honesty, valor and morals, Bucky was sent to assassinate those who American interests wanted gone, and nothing made this more clear than a mission that sent Cap, Bucky, Logan and Nick Fury against a German named Baron Strucker, who was forming an organization of his own, one that would eventually be known as HYDRA...

I liked this book a lot, although I am far more used to seeing Steve Dillon's art in the series PREACHER than in other books. His art style is distinctive, and I thought I saw Jesse Custer's father in the row of Soldiers with Wolverine. But the story casts Captain America's sidekick Bucky in a much darker light, as well as making him slightly older than the original teenager.

In a sense, this is Captain America through a glass, darkly, although that may just be Wolverine's point of view, which tends to the dark and cynical anyhow. and the ending story, "Return to Madripoor", set up the next graphic novel in the series "Swift & Terrible".

It's a good book, and perhaps might be a little depressing for those who are fans of Captain America, but Wolverine fans will be all over it, enjoying their hero slugging it out alongside, and with, Captain America. Recommended.