Wolverine: The Lost Trail "Podcast"

It has been a long time since I have written on this blog and I come out of my hibernation to talk about a months old "podcast"?? Look, it is what it is, okay?

Anyways, I finally finished "Wolverine: The Lost Trail" and these Marvel podcasts (the new buzzword for Radio Drama apparently) are really good. I know I had my gripes about Richard Armitage as Wolverine, but I take that all back. He is pretty good here. What's even more, they have expanded the cast in this story to include Gambit. You can't be in New Orleans and not bring in our favorite Cajun. The voice actor for Gambit sounded a little older than how I would imagine it in my head, but he was still good nonetheless.

Equally impressive is the actor for the new character, Marcus Baptiste. The relationship between Wolverine and Marcus is akin to Wolverine and Jubilee or Wolverine and Kitty Pryde. I guess I'm trying to say that Wolverine seems to go through more child sidekicks. The difference is, his don't die. (Oh snap!)

What I liked about this series and the one before it is the scale of the adventure. These are tales focused solely on our characters and the situations effecting them, not the entire world. That smaller scale lets us get more intimate with the characters.

The production on this "podcast" is top notch. I know that is a wild claim, since my only exposure the past couple of years are these two Wolverine shows. In listening to it, it will be hard to disagree. They use sound really well here.

I really enjoyed this and I am all in on any other radio dramas they do. The next one is called, "Marvels" and is based on the graphic novel of the same name. What makes that interesting is that METHOD MAN will be voicing Ben Urich. Sign me up.

Before you go looking for that though, go give "Wolverine: The Lost Trail" a listen. It should be free on iTunes.