X-Women Continue the Hunt in “Mystery in Madripoor” #1

Writer: Jim Zub / Artist: Thony Silas / Marvel Comics Enter Team Kitty The fourth mini-series in Marvel’s Hunt for Wolverine quasi-event finds Kitty Pryde leading a team of fan-favorite X-Women to the infamous island of Madripoor. The team, rounded out by Storm, Pscylocke, Jubille, Rogue, and Domino for convenient transport, heads to the infamous nation in search of one man – Magneto. Kitty deduces that the only one capable of removing Logan’s body without evidence is their fabled foe. Magnus has spent the past two years stationed in Madripoor, mentoring the time-displaced original X-Men and leading a reserve unit to battle the Mothervine virus. Magneto was believed to be dead by many of the X-Men after Psylocke impaled him at the end of Uncanny X-Men (Vol.3) #17.  Only after the young Jean Grey confessed to Kitty that her team was working with him did the X-Men have reason to believe otherwise.

Instead of an expected confrontation with Magneto, the team discovers a secret archive of Logan’s inside of the Princess Bar. Relics from their respective relationships with Wolverine illuminate the difference he made in so many of their lives.  Aware of their presence in Madripoor, Magneto invites the X-Men to dinner at the King’s Impresario Restaurant. Psylocke realizes too late Magneto is actually a telepathic impostor. As Storm is taken out of commission first, the X-Men are quickly ambushed by a team of mutants led by Viper (unseen since the fall of Hydra). Wolverine’s X-Factor …