Wolverine #6 - "Drowning Logan, Part Two of Two"

[arbre_rieur]

"It's been one of the joys of my life to have met and, in recent years, become friends with, Chris Claremont. His enormous contribution to comics is still undervalued. This title is dedicated to him." -- Paul Cornell

The S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier Hercules has been taken over by a mysterious mind-controlling entity, and Wolverine and three agents are the only individuals who remain uninfected. They've just survived mind-controlled Nick Fury's attempt to drown them by flooding their chamber (thought it seems to have been more of a show of cracking the whip than a serious attempt to kill them).





One of Wolverine's allies is impaled by a trident, while another gets his breathing apparatus damaged, making him vulnerable to the mind-control. Now Logan and the female agent are the only ones left.











Half an hour later, after all the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents have been restored to their right minds, the "trigger" is pulled, and we find out what it is...

Comments

[zabilac]

I find myself...completely uncaring on how this will end.

[freezer]

The continued shoehorning of Fury Jr./Movie!Fury doesn't help.

[filthysize]

I find it unbelievable that Logan would ever call him "Fury" with a straight face, and not "Junior" or something. Calling him "kid" in that punching panel is more appropriate.

[icon_uk]

Always nice to see the Microverse get a namecheck, including the molecule-shaped worlds and the reference to the Body Banks.

[chrisdv]

Ah, the obligatory movie tie-in arc.

[arbre_rieur]

Paul Cornell said at Comic-Con that he suggested the story to his editors. It's not an editorial directive.

[chrisdv]

Maybe it's just the skeptic in me, but I somehow doubt they weren't already planning a "Logan loses his healing factor" arc to tie in with the movie, before finding out Cornell was planning one anyway.

[darkknightjrk]

The idea of the gun actually being a spaceship for a microscopic alien race is pretty neat. It didn't really catch me the first issue, but I might give this another shot in trade.

[alexanderlucard]

So no healing factor means the rejection of his adamantium which everyone from Claremont to Larry Hama has hit us with for the past few decades, right?

I'm glad I dropped this title. I keeping trying to like Cornell, but aside from Demon Knights he's always been underwhelming to me.

[arbre_rieur]

"So no healing factor means the rejection of his adamantium which everyone from Claremont to Larry Hama has hit us with for the past few decades, right? "

Nope. Beast and the X-people developed a drug to counteract the adamantium poisoning.

[freezer]

Which I assume Bullseye was taking all along, right? (Nope: Not letting that one go.)

[silicone_soul]

I thought adamantium "poisoning" meant that the process of binding adamantium to your bones interfered with the production of blood cells and lymphocytes, or at least kept them from getting from the bone marrow into the blood, and that's what Wolverine's healing factor compensated for. As I understand, a literal poisoning would require a chemical reaction, which adamantium obviously doesn't do, thanks to being indestructible and all.

Presumably, the procedure that Bullseye underwent was either more advanced, or less harmful on account of being less extensive (didn't he only get adamantium in his spine).

[thezmage]

I keep trying to turn SHIELD team Namor into Brock Sampson, Mile High, and Shore Leave, but it's not working.