Wolverines #7 Review

writer: Charles Soule / artist: Kris Anka / Marvel Comics After the last issue it’s fair to expect a dip back to normality as the series pivots its story plot, and Wolverines #7 is that plunge. If you just picked up Wolverines mid-series, do yourself a favor and enjoy Wolverines #6 – it’s a fast-paced highlight reel of everything this series has to offer so far. It’s worth it just to see Sinister strike fear in everyone’s heart, only for Storm to appear and threaten to murder him. Sinister changes his tune, like “With all due respect, could we maybe talk about this later?” And when Storm says “No,” in her big-girl voice Sinister’s like “You didn’t have to punk me in front of company,” and you almost feel bad for him the way you did the bully in 6th grade when he turned Charmin in front of 8th graders. This issue does begin with Mystique’s own badassery though as she steps to what’s left of their “team” of Wolverines – Shugun, Deathstrike, Sabretooth, and X-23 – and reminds them whose boss. We were fair to assume Shogun was the boss; he has the control words, after all, which can cause any one of them to fall under his hypnosis. Maybe that was back when the teams were even and there were 5 controllers against 5 controlled, but since the rest of the Paradise squad is now dead, missing, or turned traitor, these new odds seem to change Mystique’s feelings on the subject. She turned and gave them the speech Lebron gave the Heat after they lost the 2011 NBA Finals.

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