I've seen plenty of silly boss battles in my time. But this week's Spider-Man: Web of Shadows takes the cake. This being a Marvel comics mash-up, you meet Wolverine half-way into the game. Naturally, you start fighting. It would be a pretty boring game if the two of just went out for a coffee or watched a game. You eventually wear down enough of Wolverine's hit points that he jumps away and the game cuts to a cutscene view.

At this point, I expected one of Web of Shadow's silly button pressing minigames, which are forgiving and rare enough that I don't mind them. But Wolverine wasn't having any of that. He had something else in mind. He posed questions about Marvel comics lore. I had to choose one of four answers using the controller buttons.

Wolverine wanted to know where he met so-and-so, who won the battle between this superhero and that superhero, the names of Spidey's parents, what such-and-such's real name was, and where certain events happened. I'm not a big comic book guy, so I didn't have the first clue about any of this stuff. I suppose I could have told Wolverine to wait a sec while I checked Wikipedia, but I wanted to play evil Spidey. And most of the questions had an obvious evil Spidey answer. I just chose those. Although I got one right by accident.

So let this be a warning. If you want to be buddies with Wolverine, bone up on your Marvel comics lore.