Wolverine Origins Annual #1

One-sentence summary: While definitely better than the normal Wolverine Origins issue, it's still just another Wolverine story.

This wasn't too bad of a comic, really; the art was not my thing, and the story was just mediocre, but that's so far above the par for Wolverine Origins I've gotta give this issue a compliment for that.

Why was it better? Possibly because it didn't feature much from Wolverine Origins. While it's a flashback issue dealing with some random aspect of his past (which I stopped even trying to make sense of 7 years ago), the present-day story portion seems much more relevant to the main Wolverine book, which is currently fathoms better than Origins.

Is that a bad thing for a title? For the annual to be the best issue in -- well, probably ever -- because it shares few if any characteristics with the main book? Probably so; still true, though.