{"id":10670,"date":"2025-01-03T19:36:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T19:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10670"},"modified":"2025-01-03T19:36:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T19:36:49","slug":"deadpool-wolverine-1-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10670","title":{"rendered":"Deadpool \/ Wolverine #1 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>DEADPOOL \/ WOLVERINE #1<\/strong>
\n“The Secret Lives”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Benjamin Percy<\/strong>
\nArtist: Joshua Cassara<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Guru-eFX<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Joe Sabino<\/strong>
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well goodness, this is just like old times, isn’t it? This is in fact the first Deadpool \/ Wolverine<\/em> book… with that specific combination of words in the title. In the last year alone, we’ve had the miniseries Deadpool & Wolverine: WWIII<\/em>, the Infinity Comic Deadpool vs Wolverine: Slash ‘Em Up<\/em> and the back-up serial Weapon X-Traction<\/em>. Fortunately, this issue shipped on 1 January 2025, and so we can say with confidence that it is at least the first Deadpool & Wolverine series of the year.<\/p>\n

You’ll be pleased to hear that this is not an issue that calls for much annotation, which would, after all, rather miss the point of publishing a Deadpool \/ Wolverine<\/em> book.<\/p>\n

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE<\/strong><\/p>\n

The book seems to be going with the established routine where Deadpool<\/strong> wants to be best friends and Wolverine<\/strong> wants the annoying guy to go away. However, as soon as he steals Sven Sunguard’s metal teeth (see below), Deadpool falls under some sort of influence, and starts acting weird – which is to say, quietly and rationally. This version of Deadpool thinks that Wolverine will be under the same influence and assumes that Wolverine already knows the mission they’re supposed to be carrying out together. This out of character behaviour is what motivates Wolverine to stick around. (A very similar plot device was used in WWIII<\/em>, but ssshhhh.)<\/p>\n

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The outside influence seems to be due to nanites, and it looks as though they were meant to activate and trigger Deadpool and Wolverine to go carry out a mission for Stryfe (again, see below). Since they apparently don’t get purged by healing factors, an obvious explanation would be that any historic latent nanite infection that Wolverine might have suffered would have been lost during one of his many Krakoan-era resurrections.<\/p>\n

Wolverine’s healing factor now takes several hours to put him back together after he falls out of an aircraft, which seems like it’s been dialled back a bit from recent years. I’m all for that.<\/p>\n

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

The Nordic Mob<\/strong> are exactly what they sound like, and they’ve gathered to attend the funeral of patriarch Sven Sunguard<\/strong>. Sunguard has metal teeth allegedly made from “the melted-down and reforged sword of legendary Viking Erik the Red”. Erik the Red was actually more of an explorer than a warrior, but sure, I guess he probably had a sword too.<\/p>\n

The O*N*E <\/strong>probably count as villains given their role in X-Men<\/em>, but the first two agents in this issue, Andy and Shaun, are just low-ranking guys who’ve been sent to catalogue crates full of “mutie records” at a dilapidated S.H.I.E.L.D. warehouse. The “records” actually seem to be crates full of mutant-related objects. In the time-honoured tradition of such characters, Andy and Shaun think that if there’s a cryogenic storage facility kept inside an adamntium chest which is sealed in concrete, wrapped in chains and held in a crate marked DO NOT OPEN, it must be a really good idea to open it. They die.<\/p>\n

Maverick<\/strong> is now working for O*N*E, because why not?<\/p>\n

Stryfe<\/strong> is the villain controlling Deadpool – the suggestion seems to be that the teeth are just a coincidence and that Deadpool fell under Stryfe’s influence once O*N*E accidentally released him. Given Stryfe’s convoluted personal timeline, it’s hard to say what he was doing “last” – in publishing terms, we last saw him in Marauders<\/em> vol 2, when he was way back at the dawn of life on Earth. On the face of it, Stryfe’s plan seems to involve committing mass slaughter for reasons yet to be explained.<\/p>\n

Cassara’s Stryfe wears a somewhat more restrained version of his armour, and no helmet. Helpfully, he’s bald, so you can tell him apart from Cable.<\/p>\n

Deadpool thinks that, as mind-controlled soldiers, he and Wolverine are “X-Cutioners” – presumably a reference to the “X-Cutioner’s Song” crossover from 1992, in which Stryfe was the major villain. A little more alarmingly, the hidden base to which Deadpool takes Wolverine includes a vial marked “Legacy: Reborn”. That’s presumably a reference to the Legacy Virus, which Stryfe released at the end of “X-Cutioner’s Song”. Wolverine pockets the vial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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