{"id":10590,"date":"2024-12-08T16:45:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T16:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10590"},"modified":"2024-12-08T16:45:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T16:45:39","slug":"wolverine-4-annotations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10590","title":{"rendered":"Wolverine #4 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>WOLVERINE vol 8 #4 <\/strong>
\n“Lost and Found”<\/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

Wolverine is trying to teach the Wendigo to hold on to its humanity, with moderate success. For fairly obvious reasons, he sees parallels between his own situation in Weapon X and Leonard’s transformation into a monster. They’ve sneaked across the border into the US, and Logan has rented a cabin to live in. (Logan’s dialogue says they crossed the border “two days ago” and a “few days” ago within the space of a page, but you get the idea.)<\/p>\n

He shows up in costume to investigate an explosion in the area, even though he doesn’t regard himself as a superhero that anyone would want to be rescued by.<\/p>\n

He gets a bit animalistic while fighting the Constrictor, but doesn’t cross any lines and recovers his composure soon enough. He attributes this to the length of time that he was living in the wilds.<\/p>\n

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

Leonard the Wendigo <\/strong>is still able to talk, though only barely and with minimal effort. Still, Logan tells us that the Wendigo’s hunger for human flesh seems to be receding the more the Wendigo resists it. He also thinks that he’s having some impact on the Wendigo. But the time frame given for the Wendigo’s improvement also coincides with them leaving Canada, which feels like it isn’t a coincidence, given the nature of his curse. (Though surely an ancient curse isn’t defined by reference to modern boundaries?)<\/p>\n

Nightcrawler. <\/strong>Since Wolverine is on the run from Weapon X and wants to say off the radar, he calls Kurt\u00a0 and asks him to relay the Constrictor’s whereabouts. Kurt is shown in a conventional domestic kitchen, and quite a big one – however, issue #1 was explicitly before X-Men<\/em> #1 and Uncanny<\/em> #1, so he can’t be at Haven yet.<\/p>\n

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

The Adamantine <\/strong>is the name of the mysterious consciousness that’s been turning adamantium-themed characters golden over the course of the last few issues. Lady Deathstrike suggests that its objection is to adamantium itself, rather than to the characters who use it; she presents it as freeing her from false consciousness and enlightening her.<\/p>\n

The Constrictor <\/strong>gets broken out of jail, presumably for two reasons: first, he’s an adamantium themed villain, and second, it’s an event designed to lure out Wolverine, presumably on the logic that he was likely to still be in the area somewhere.<\/p>\n

The original Constrictor died in Captain America: Sam Wilson<\/em> #5 (2016). His son inherited his battlesuit and took up the mantle in Infamous Iron Man<\/em> #7 (2017), and presumably he’s the character we see here; he’s never been given a real name. The fall of Krakoa seems to have passed him by, but he can’t possibly have missed it by being in jail – aside from the fact that major world news events would presumably reach him even in prison, he was in\u00a0Avengers Assembly<\/em> just last month as a member of the Serpent Society. Maybe he just doesn’t pay much attention to the news.<\/p>\n

The Constrictor does use electrified adamantium tendrils as weapons, but ultimately he’s just a guy in a battlesuit. He mentions that some “connected folks” arranged to spring him out of jail, and presumably they also arranged for his battlesuit to be available to him after he escaped, since he surely can’t have been allowed to keep it while in prison.<\/p>\n

Wolverine has never met this version of the Constrictor before, and he only crossed paths with the original very briefly: they’re both in Marvel Two-in-One<\/em> #96 (along with a ton of other cameos), and they were both in an X-Men vs Six Pack fight in Cable & Deadpool<\/em> in 2004. Wolverine regards him, quite reasonably, as a minor villain who happens to have a dangerous weapon in the form of his coils; he puts up enough of a fight to get Wolverine angry, but still goes down without much trouble in the space of two pages.<\/p>\n

Lady Deathstrike<\/strong>, under the Adamantine’s control, was presumably responsible for breaking the Constrictor out. Wolverine’s narration briefly recaps her standard origin, blaming Wolverine for stealing her father’s adamantium-bonding process. To be honest, she hasn’t seemed to care that much about that subject in recent years, but it is<\/em> meant to be her main motivation for going after Wolverine. While possesed by the Adamantine, she’s largely silent, though she does give a speech at the end endorsing the Adamantine, in which she seems to regard herself as separate from it.<\/p>\n

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

Page 5 panel 3: “I’ve been a teacher more than once in my life.”<\/strong> Most obviously, when he was the headmaster of the Jean Grey School in Wolverine and the X-Men<\/em>. But he also did some teaching at the school during the New X-Men<\/em> period and ran some classes for the\u00a0New Mutants back in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition. WOLVERINE vol 8 #4 “Lost and Found” Writer: Saladin Ahmed Artist: Mart\u00edn C\u00f3ccolo Colour artist: Bryan Valenza Letterer: Cory Petit Editor: Mark Basso WOLVERINE: Wolverine is trying to teach the Wendigo to hold on to its humanity, with moderate success. For […]<\/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-10590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annotations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590","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=10590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10593,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590\/revisions\/10593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}