Wolverine #7 - "The Madripoor Job, Part Two"

[arbre_rieur]

'In fact I remember when the Wolverine title first started decades ago, being in a comic shop and going "How on earth are they going to make that work?" Because he was the classic cool guy at the edge of the team that says one thing every few panels. Putting him at the centre of a book really didn’t seem to make much sense. I think this is a problem that lots of people have found. So I’ve sort of broken down that wall and got to the heart of him a bit.' -- Paul Cornell









Faiza heals him up, then slinks back into the shadows so as not to blow Logan's undercover nature. He resumes tracking down the mysterious sphere.





Wolverine and his friends figure out how to control the sphere, but not before it blabs in its translated, broken English that he's working undercover, that he hasn't really gone criminal:



He says that while he was undercover, and while there might be some truth in what she's saying about his motivation, he wasn't planning to get them arrested.

Comments

[drtechnobabel]

You know, in the panel where Wolvie points the gun at Pinch, the shadowed face makes him look kinda like El Furio Tigre.

[arilou_skiff]

Got to love Faiza's gigantic disguise.

[freezer]

All that last scan does is remind me why I was so glad Sabretooth got killed off and why I was so annoyed they not only brought him back, but brought him back as Kingpin Lite.

Also: Does Logan still have his enhanced strength and senses without the healing factor? If not, it sparks many a question about how he can move around at normal speeds with 300 lbs of metal on his frame without enhanced strength.

[drtechnobabel]

Didn't a 'What If?' story about M-Day affecting everyone have him pinned to the ground for the exact reason that he no longer had said strength due to losing his healing factor?

[donnblake]

M Day was kind of inconsistent in how it affected people anyways, though. Removed Blob's body fat, left Chamber with a hole in his chest.

[sir_razorback]

Not if his regeneration was specifically targetted and not his entire X-genome.

[freezer]

I was of the idea that the healing factor was his power, and all his other abilities (minus the claws, obviously) spawned from that.

[arbre_rieur]

He still has the senses. I don't think he ever had super-strength though, not even when he does have a healing factor.

[freezer]

The Handbook listed his strength level as "Enchanced Human", same as Captain America and Black Panther. Though, IIRC, adamantium being hella heavy is a fairly recent thing.

[arbre_rieur]

Well, both those two are supposed to be peak human, possessing the maximum strength possible for a normal human to have without actually creeping into super-strength. I guess the "enhanced" comes from the fact that both of them get that peak performance not from training alone but from an outside agent, the serum in Cap's case and the heart-shaped Wakandan herb in T'Challa's. It's at a level that should be at least theoretically possible for a normal person to reach, though; that's the whole idea behind the super-soldier serum.

It's interesting that they'd list Wolverine's strength under the same category. They never mention that in descriptions of his mutant powers. Maybe the idea was supposed to be that the Weapon X program altered him.

[halloweenjack]

That whole "She's just a member of the supporting cast" rant is a bit too meta for my tastes.

[wizardru]

Having Faiza and the rest here is almost enough to interest me in this story. ALMOST.

But I'd rather have that title back, honestly.