Wolverine / Gambit: Victims 1

Short Review: Every bit as dumb as you might imagine.

A comic which deals with Jack the Ripper. Well researched, showing a detailed knowledge of English customs of the time and the social structure which hindered the capture of the killer. Such a comic exists, but its name is From Hell, and Victims, sad to say, is no From Hell. It can be excused many of its dissimilarities by the fact that it's set in the modern day, and only identifies the killer as Jack by implication. There does seem to be some influence, in that the chief inspector into the killing has the same bushy mustache as in From Hell, albeit 30 years after such mustaches stopped being common, even in the police. There, unfortunately, the resemblance ends, and what we get is Wolverine, who may have been responsible for the recent spate of murders (but wasn't) and Gambit, whose main claim to butchery is what he does to the cajun accent. There's not an incredible amount of plot, and most of the characterisation comes from the Marvel "Put them back the way you found them" school of maintaining character traits from decades (did you know that Gambit loves Rogue?). Someone's framing Wolverine, and in the next few issues (it doesn't actually give a limit for the miniseries), we find out who, and they get apparently killed. Sorry if this spoils things for you.