He is Risen . . .Just Missing “Hunt for Wolverine” #1 Review

Writer: Charles Soule / Artist: David Marquez, Paulo Siquiera / Marvel Comics No One Ever Really Dies In comics, death is a merely a pause and a resurrection is only a reboot away. The X-Men, arguably more than any other comics mythology, die and return more often than any sane person wants to remember. In this decade alone, Professor X, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler Cyclops and Wolverine died and/or were resurrected. The Death of Wolverine in 2014 (also written by Charles Soule) created a bit of an awkward circus in its wake. How many alternate reality, time displaced, future progeny and Wolverine clones can the X-Universe really justify? Currently, Old Man Logan, X-23 (now in the Wolverine mantle, but not for much longer), Daken, Honey Badger, and James (from an alternative universe) are all gracing the pages of Earth 616. Now that the OG Canuck is back, let us hope for a clearing house of the clawed ones. X-23 and Honey Badger are great characters with potential and mythos; at this point, though, Daken, James and Old Man Logan are frustratingly redundant. Logan’s growth as an individual has always been connected to his mentoring, first of Kitty and later on, Jubillee. Suddenly resurrected and with now two ‘daughters’ instead of one, Logan will have lot of family issues to sort. Then, there is the small issue of the recent resurrection of the love of his life, the woman whom he killed to save the world 14 years ago – Jean Grey. Cyclops is dead, so the Wolverine and Jean relations…