New 'Savage Wolverine' set in a whiskey-soaked noir era

Savage Wolverine has taken the clawed mutant antihero with the impressive sideburns from the Savage Land to a futuristic alien planet, and now places him in a 1930s landscape full of tommy guns and gangsters.

French artist Richard Isanove (Marvel 1602, The Dark Tower) takes his first crack at both writing and illustrating with the new noir-tinged, crime-story arc of the series beginning with issue 14.NOW, out today and part of Marvel Comics' "All-New Marvel NOW" initiative.

Isanove has tackled the character before, working with Andy Kubert on the 2001-02 series Origin, and he puts him in the waning days of Prohibition as part of a Canadian whiskey bootlegging operation.

Logan's close friends with a Minnesota family man, but when the Mob shows up wanting to put his pal out of the hooch business and does some serious damage, Wolverine's claws really come out and he hits the road to save the man's daughter.

Isanove is the latest one-man creative team to work on a Savage Wolverine arc since the book's launch last year, following writer/artists Frank Cho, Jock and Phil Jimenez.