Wolverine and the X-men #8

[sherkahn]

Marvel continues to serve up a fresh hot serving of AWESOME sauce.

The Jean Grey School for Gifted Students continues to shine, as this title focuses more on the kids attending the school than Logan (as it should be).


An excursion for staff and students occurs.


At the end of last issue, a matter transmuter was used on Wolverine's legs, and so he is getting used to the role Charles Xavier had to for much of the X-men's history: Making do with a wheel chair.

In an attempt to get him and his adamantium bones back to normal, Hank McCoy sets out to SWORD to find another alien matter transmuter to reset Wolverine back, and Quentin leads a field trip back into space to the casino for the same reason.

Things get exciting.

Because the Hellfire Club has hired Sabretooth to cut out the heart of the School (Beast, and his paramour Agent Brand) and this time the casino is ready for the kids.

Sabretooth got to the space station first, killing most of the S.W.O.R.D. agents and leaving Beast behind with no space suit while the fight moved out to the vaccuum of space.




In space no one can hear Sabretooth scream.

Meanwhile, the school kids get to the casino heavy hitters to finally come down and face them.




And Angel and Evan (Genesis) have a bonding moment afterwards.

Beast and Brand rekindle their romance with Sabretooth's defeat (although he is in stitches) and Wolverine learns a lesson from the kids... to have faith in them.

Mindless fun! Ahhh, comics.

Comments

[freezer]

Since when is Sabretooth back among the living?

[auggie18]

I didn't really enjoy this issue that much. It seemed like it was mostly fight scenes that were pretty incomprehensible due to Bachalo's art. (I swear, I swing between loving his style and hating it at least two or three times an issue.) Sorta missing Bradshaw.

Don't get me wrong, I still like the book, but this sorta felt like a big skip-over issue.

[greenmask]

Hurray Beast!

I like that little bendy grey boy.

[biod]

Remind me never to badmouth Kansas ever.

[protogarrett]

Sabretooth? He was beheaded with a sword that kills immortals. Then Wolverine went to hell and beheaded his SOUL.

How is Sabretooth alive again? O.o

Also, what is happenign to Sabes? I can't really tell...

[darkknightjrk]

On one hand, it was a pretty enjoyable issue, even if some of Bachalo's art makes the storytelling really confusing.

I will say this, though--this was the second story where you had two plots, and they both ended with the same resolution, making one of them pointless. Last arc it was Logan and Quentin going to the space casino to fund the school being wrapped up by Krakoa growing diamonds; this story it was Beast going to SWORD to get the transmuter thingy to fix Logan's legs, with it being resolved by Angel and the kids going to the space casino to get it themselves. It kinda feels like a cheap way to fill space.

[shadowpsykie]

god.... i still can't get behind this art.... if not for that this would SOOO be on the list....

[sinisterlink]

Man, I love Kansas raised little Apocalypse. Please don't turn evil! Also, looks like Batman has a contendor for the "I can breathe in space" award. And I know a lot of people around here don't like Sabretooth, but I'm glad he's back. He's just so good at being a jackass.

[icon_uk]

Don't the X-Men know a couple of transmuters they can ask for a favour from? Tom "Alchemy" Jones the British matter-transmuter springs to mind.

Would any of geeks judge me too harshly when I say...

[silverzeo]

Would Supergirl just gut punch Kid Gladiator to shut him up, kinda like the episode of Doug in which Connie knocks the wind out of Roger for taking her hat to hide he haircut..

[vitruvian23]

What happened to Abigail's powers? Sabretooth should have been fricaseed before Hank could rescue her.

[avantre]

Is it just me, or is S.W.O.R.D. woefully bad at its job in this comic? First encounter with aliens (inspection team)= all dead, apparently without any backup. Second encounter (medical team) = all dead again. Third encounter = mass wipe-out by one mutant. How are these guys thinking they're capable of defending the planet against aliens?

[lascoden]

I love that of all people, Evan and Angel are becoming friends. Apocalypse and Archangel; never would of seen that coming.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

So... what were his bones transmuted into?

[thatnickguy]

I keep hearing about how awesome this series is. And every scan I see, the writing looks like a lot of fun.

But that art. Ugh, that art.