Wolverines #1 Review

writer: Charles Soule / artists: Nick Bradshaw, Alisson Borges / Marvel Comics Wolverine is dead and the effects of his passing ripple through the Marvel universe. Charles Soule’s 4-part miniseries Death of Wolverine said goodbye with cameos from the characters most important in Wolverine’s life, and The Logan Legacy gave 2 of the most awesome dedication pictures I’ve seen in a long time. The first is brilliant in its simplicity, with Nightcrawler lighting a candle in his old friend’s memory. The second is Sabretooth drinking to his nemesis, and I imagine him thinking “It should’ve been me who merked you, Logan. It should’ve been me.”

Now that Wolverine is gone, there’s a mad search for his adamantium-covered corpse. If you didn’t read Death of Wolverine, check out the final issue review to get a better sense of how he went out, or suffice it to say, that today he’d make a beautiful trophy in a super villain’s home or a fitting statue in the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. Wolverines #1 begins with 5 of his oldest associates – Mystique, Sabretooth, X-23, Lady Deathstrike, and Daken – having been captured and coerced into finding his corpse. Who’s powerful enough to strong-arm not 1, not 2, but 5 of the most badass characters in the game? Eh, just some dudes. More specifically, 5 former test subjects of Doctor Cornelius, the man who originally infused Logan’s bones with adamantium in the Weapon X project, thus making him Wolverine’s de facto daddy. Apologies for yawning in you…