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Sabretooth takes on his toughest opponent in the Five Points yet, The Crocodilian! When the two heavyweights slug it out, they end up destroying a whole amusement park! Crocodilian is fighting control of New York City’s Underground, but Sabretooth is just looking for vengeance. Sabretooth: The Dead Don’t Talk wraps up its story and puts Victor Creed, Nathaniel Essex, New York, and even Wolverine on their historic paths!
- Written by Frank Tieri
- Art by Michael Sta. Maria
- Colors by Rachelle Rosenberg
- Letters by Joe Sabino
- Designer Jay Bowen
- Assistant Editor Drew Baumgartner
- Editor Mark Paniccia
- Editor in Chief C. B. Cebulski
Sabretooth: The Dead Don’t Talk Has an Ancient Egyptian Connection!
We’ve seen a lot of easter eggs and references to Marvel characters in the early 1900’s NYC, but this issue opens up with ties to non other than Moon Knight himself! A group of explorers open up a tomb in 1888 Egypt hoping to find the Lost Chamber of Khonshu. What they actually discover is something much worse, the Chamber of Sobek!
In Case You Missed It: Sabretooth: The Dead Don’t Talk #4 Mad Dog Days
Now with the reveal of the Crocodilian’s origins and identity, we’re thrown back into the resent where Sabretooth, or “Mad Dog Murphy”, arrives to settle the score with the powerful adversary. For everyone else, this is a fight to determine the King of the Five Points. For Victor Creed however, this is for retribution. Dargonfires’s death did not sit well with him and the guilty party must pay for his trespass! It’s a fight for the ages through Dreamland Amusement park!
Character and World Building of Sabretooth: The Dead Don’t Talk
The realization a few pages in as to where the Crocodilian came from was awesome. Frank Tieri has done a fantastic job of weaving history and the Marvel Comics Universe together into a world building masterpiece. Building the mystery and character of the Crocodilian from the ground up was well done and presents us with a new villain in the Wolverine and possibly Moon Knight universes!
It was also very different to see Sabretooth in the role of a mourning lover. He went to war over the loss of Dragonfire and when all was said and done, he left everything he had earned behind. He had a fascinating arc that hit every corner of his personality. It was a surprisingly deep emotional path for Sabretooth that ended up with him back on the trail of Wolverine.
The Art of Violence in Sabretooth: The Dead Don’t Talk
The art? Chef’s kiss, man. From the opening pages the rich colors and Egyptian horror setting sets the tone for the rest of the book. I was engaged from the beginning! After that the action only ramps up with the big fight throughout the amusement park, ending in a funhouse or haunted house type of attraction. Every panel is brimming with the anger and passion of this fight. No punches are pulled when it comes to the violence.
Overall Grade: 8.5/10
It’s been a fun ride and the final issue gives us that clash of the titans we’ve been waiting for. The horror tone from the Crocodilian flashback was fantastic. The huge fight in the middle took me on an exciting ride. The ending however fell a little flat for me. Seeing Sabretooth take this journey and learn so much, even honoring Dragonfire’s remains with a properly laying her to rest was wonderful. However, all it took was Logan’s picture in a newspaper to derail everything. I get it, that’s who he is. It just made for an abrupt ending is all. What about you? Did you enjoy the ending?
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