The Hunt for Wolverine: Mystery in Madripoor #4 Review

Writer: Jim Zub // Artist: Thony Silas with Leonard Kirk  // Publisher: Marvel What happens in Madripoor stays in Madripoor…unless it is a rocket. In true X-Men fashion, a simple investigation to locate Wolverine’s missing body turns into a race to stop a missile (oh so original) and yet another body-altering experience for Psylocke. As Marvel prepares for the relaunch of  Uncanny X-Men in November, a great many changes are taking shape in the realm of Mutantdom. In the pages of Mystery of Madripoor, Kitty Pryde has led a team of A-list X-Women to the crime island city-state in search of Logan’s missing body. While attempting to meet with Magneto, they are ambushed by agents of Viper.  Rogue and Storm are taken prisoner, while Psylocke becomes the feeding toy of Sapphire Styx, a soul-draining mutant. When Kitty is finally able to stage a counterstrike with Domino, Jubilee, and Magneto, they are forced to stop Viper from launching a rocket with intentions of mass destruction. Still weakened from his brainwashing at the hands of Viper’s henchwoman Mindblast, the Master of Magnetism is unable to stop the launch alone.

Imprisoned within the soul world of Sapphire Styx, Psylocke comes into contact with all of the souls drained by the mutant. She meets a remnant of Logan’s essence, drained from Patch in an earlier battle with him during the Wolverine-centric run of 1988 ‘s Marvel Comics Presents anthology. Reclaiming her own strength and that of Wolverine, Psylocke literally sha…