Hunt for Wolverine: Adamantium Agenda #2 Review

Writer: Tom Taylor / Artist: RB Silva / Marvel Comics The New Avengers ride again.  In the previous issue of “Adamantium Agenda,” Tony Stark gets the band back together for a mission to infiltrate an underworld auction on a submarine.  Spider-Man, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage join him, hoping to disrupt what they believe is the auctioning of Wolverine’s DNA sequence. In reality, the criminals are slanging the genetic material of Danielle Cage, daughter of Luke and Jessica. Just as in the first installment, issue two begins in flashback, revealing more of the event in which Wolverine self-detonates a bomb in order to save Tribeca from turning into radioactive Poptart crumbs.  Logan, being the best there is at what he does (most of the time), survives after much of his skin, organs, and tissue are melted off from the radioactive fallout.

Back in the present, Stark intends to make good on his promise to protect Wolverine’s most dangerous asset. While “disguised” in a ridiculous masquerade mask and helping to ease the fears of Luke and Jessica, Stark purchases the DNA of Danielle Cage before finally learning that Logan’s DNA is on offer as well. Before he can complete the deal, however, Mr. Sinister emerges to punish the thief who stole the DNA sequence. In the chaos, Laura Kinney appears, discarding her own disguise and slicing off the pasty eugenicists’ hand without a second thought. The plot thickens… “Caging?” After so many instances of “fridging” in popular culture (“Dea…