Wolverine Annual: Deathsong #1. Written by GREGG HURWITZ. Pencils & Cover by MARCELO FRUSIN. THE DEATH SONG OF J. PATRICK SMITTY. Los Angeles Times-best selling author Gregg Hurwitz (The Crime Writer) and Marcelo Frusin (Hellblazer) bring you a gritty, self-contained story! It's Wolverine as you've never seen him before! A botched bank heist. A dozen dead civilians. A man on the run. Smitty's a two-bit hoodlum with blood on his hands and a monster nipping at his heels. A relentless force of nature whose senses are as sharp as his claws. Smitty is going to die, and he knows it. The only question is: when? To understand the ending, you must start at the beginning. And Smitty's story is a killer.