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As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>WOLVERINE vol 8 #1<\/strong>
\n“In the Bones”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Saladin Ahmed<\/strong>
\nArtist: Mart\u00edn C\u00f3ccolo<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Bryan Valenza<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Cory Petit<\/strong>
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

WOLVERINE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A less-than-prominent editorial note on the credits page places this story before X-Men<\/em> #1 and Uncanny X-Men<\/em> #1, though you could work that out anyway.<\/p>\n

After the fall of Krakoa, Logan has headed off to the Canadian wilderness, as he sometimes does, to run around naked with wolves. He hasn’t completely dropped off the radar but he’s made it very clear that he wants to be left alone. Logan attributes his mental state to the trauma of “Fall of X” and associated events, and seems to be saying that now that he’s finally in a position to take some time to drop out of society, that’s what he wants to do. He resents being told that he has responsibilities as a prominent mutant (which is consistent with how he’s been acting in the X-Men<\/em> books).<\/p>\n

The wolves get wiped out by Cyber rather quickly, and Logan blames himself for exposing them to the inevitable attack by one of his villains. A few pages later, one of the campers who survived Cyber’s attack makes essentially the same argument – that the mutants drew Cyber to attack them. He’s not exactly wrong, but given his anti-mutant tone, Wolverine has a lot less sympathy for him, and declares that if Cyber comes back for him then he has it coming. In fact, though, Wolverine does try to protect them.<\/p>\n

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Logan doesn’t recognise Kurt’s scent at first, which is obviously odd. His only explanation is that his “head’s kind of messed up”, but it feels like a subplot. He mentions later on that he didn’t pick up Cyber’s scent either, and decides that he must just be “slipping”.<\/p>\n

SUPPORTING CAST:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nightcrawler<\/strong> comes after Logan partly out of concern for his mental health, and partly to encourage him to return to the X-Men. He says that things are “bad for mutants now” – a recurring claim in the “From the Ashes” books which is very, very hard to reconcile with the fact that everything we can see is blatantly much better than it was during “Fall of X”. But it’s fair to say that mutantkind is in disarray at the very least. Kurt sees Logan as abdicating his responsibility by running off to the woods.<\/p>\n

VILLAINS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cyber<\/strong> wants revenge on Wolverine for his long list of defeats. Now that Wolverine is away from Krakoa and other mutants, Cyber figures he finally has a chance of getting to him one on one. He could have done this at any time after “Fall of X”, but maybe he just couldn’t find Wolverine until now. His approach seems to be to kill everyone in sight in the hope of drawing Wolverine out.<\/p>\n

The fight between Cyber and Wolverine wakes some sort of sentient metal thing in the vicinity, which regards adamantium as a man-made perversion and seems to possess Cyber’s body after he flees the scene. Hmm.<\/p>\n

Cyber was last seen in the X-books in Death of Wolverine<\/em> #3, where he was killed by being dissolved in acid. He returned to life in Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider<\/em> #8-13, where he was resurrected by a demon as part of a plan to re-form the Slingers, and he spent a few issues claiming to be the Hornet. His new body was indeed metal-plated, so there’s no obvious problem with him showing up in more classic form here.<\/p>\n

Lady Deathstrike <\/strong>appears on the bonus page, apparently training some henchmen to help her hunt down Wolverine. She doesn’t think they’re up to standard.<\/p>\n

OTHER SPECIFICS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Page 7 panel 1: “A century ago, he was little more than a boy and I was his drill sergeant…”<\/strong> This and other references to Wolverine and Cyber’s past are referring to assorted flashbacks from Wolverine: Origins<\/em> – specifically issues #12, #15 and #17. In those issues, Cyber is an agent of Romulus, but the story would gain nothing from bringing that up, and wisely doesn’t. Wolverine’s reminiscence about Cyber on page 23 draws on the same source.<\/p>\n

Page 7 panel 2: “Little bastard even bit my eye out.”<\/strong> Marvel Comics Presents<\/em> #92, I think.<\/p>\n

Page 7 panel 4: “Until recently, he’s been living it up in mutant paradise, surrounded by heavy hitters I’m not stupid enough to take on.” <\/strong>Krakoa, obviously. Some stories have Cyber himself as a mutant, at least in his original body, but he evidently didn’t feel like taking up the amnesty.<\/p>\n

Page 11 panel 1: “Wolverine and I joined the X-Men around the same time.” <\/strong>Giant-Size X-Men<\/em> #1. Nightcrawler’s reaction to first meeting Wolverine, as described here, isn’t in that issue, but then it doesn’t actualy show them meeting on panel.<\/p>\n

Page 14 line 2: “Orchis. Leavin’ Krakoa. Charles doing what he did.”<\/strong> “Fall of X” in general, and specifically Professor X making a deal with Nimrod in Rise of the Powers of X<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Page 22 line 1: “More times than I can count, I’ve laid there strapped to some machine, listening to people who think they know me…”<\/strong> The obvious reference is “Weapon X”, but Wolverine seems to be talking more generally about all sorts of scientists down the years who’ve treated him as an object of study, however benignly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition. WOLVERINE vol 8 #1 “In the Bones” Writer: Saladin Ahmed Artist: Mart\u00edn C\u00f3ccolo Colour artist: Bryan Valenza Letterer: Cory Petit Editor: Mark Basso WOLVERINE: A less-than-prominent editorial note on the credits page places this story before X-Men #1 and Uncanny X-Men […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annotations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10370,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions\/10370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}