Wolverine #8

[arbre_rieur]

Storm and Wolverine visit the "excruciatingly liberal nation of Wakanda"...

"The plan is lots of short, action, and character emotion-packed arcs, that when you put them back-to-back, build to something bigger. It's me doing my mainstream high-power super hero comic. I've never really done it." -- Paul Cornell

So there's a sentient virus on the loose, with the power to take over the minds of any humans it infects.













Aaaand... *snikt*









There's just one final matter: That Storm snuck into Wakanda. After all that A vs. X business, she did promise him that she'd never set foot in the country again.

Comments

[flint_marko]

The Host was actually one of the villains from Mystique's excellent ongoing series.

[sir_mikael]

Haha, yes! Totally what I was thinking! And it was such a great title. It really really got cut short tho. Also if I recall correctly, I think BKV set up some stuff about the villain's HQ location that never got used by the second writer.

[donnblake]

So, for what sounded like a kind of grim angsty premise (Wolverine loses his healing factor), this book looks like a lot of fun. T'Challa's done well (brilliant, manipulative, focused on protecting Wakanda, but not, y'know, an asshole), one of the many Frankensteins in the AU to provide Sciencey Support...

Also, I love that Wolverine's plan was to get provoke someone into getting mad and attacking him, with entirely predictable results.

[leoboiko]

Just look at that smirk of happiness on page 2. "I get to be an asshole! For justice! I have a good reason to be an asshole~☆"

[grazzt]

Speaking of smiles, I like T'Challa's on the last page.

[shadowpsykie]

so how did he lose his healing factor? and has this carried over to the other comics?

also is that Victoria Hand?

[donnblake]

The sentient virus deactivated his healing mechanism after he prevented their hostile takeover of SHIELD, I'm not sure if it's shown up in other comics.

And I believe that it's Victoria Frankenstein, one of the new supporting characters introduced in this series (and one of the many Frankensteins running about the MU).

[shadowpsykie]

ah that explains the whole, "Instructions on how to bring me back to life" thing hehe (doesn't she run a bar?)

[cainofdreaming]

New only as a Wolverine supporting character. She's been around since the old Frankenstein's monster series.

[donnblake]

Is she? Oh, cool. What about the rest of the support characters from the bar?

[cainofdreaming]

I actually asked the same thing when the bar scene was posted here. See here for the discussion.

[bruinsfan]

OK, as people at that link pointed out, "Marcus H. Harold" is remarkably reminiscent of Harold H. Harold from Tomb of Dracula: the similar names, similar appearance, shared career. Could Logan possibly be around a vampire for any length of time in a social setting and NOT notice that it's something other than a living human being?

I'm sorry, I can't help it...

[bewareofgeek]

But I miss the Priest take on T'challa. He had such a refined speech pattern...

[kamino_neko]

Yay, Storm's got her mohawk back!

Yes, that's all I care about.

[twospirit.blogspot.com]

T'challa looks like he has a big, bushy moustache in the panels where he faces front....cannot unsee...

[skywaterblue]

I'm a sucker for a good exs-get-back-together story, even if the entire Panther/Storm relationship made fuck-all sense.

[blunderbuss]

Okay, uh, this is Scans Daily and it's never just me, but does anyone else --

"It's so raw. Like it's always shivering."

-- find that REEEEEAAAALLLLY fucking hot?

Like goddamn, Storm, very interesting choice of words there, DAMN.