{"id":10771,"date":"2025-02-06T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10771"},"modified":"2025-02-06T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T23:04:09","slug":"wolverine-6-annotations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10771","title":{"rendered":"Wolverine #6 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>WOLVERINE vol 8 #6<\/strong>
\n“Lineage”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Saladin Ahmed<\/strong>
\nArtist: Mart\u00edn C\u00f3ccolo<\/strong>
\nColourist: Bryan Valenza<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Cory Petit<\/strong>
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

This time, he experiences the Adamantine’s call as a vision of being buried alive. Nightcrawler snaps him out of it, but it’s not clear whether he would have broken the spell on his own. For Wolverine, the call seems to be coming from the Earth itself.<\/p>\n

When Laura shows up, he says that he didn’t realise until now “how much I needed to breathe the familiar scent of kin” – a slightly odd comment given that he’s next to Nightcrawler, whom he’s known far longer than Laura, but evidently the point is that he appreciates his family once they’re around.<\/p>\n

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

Nightcrawler.<\/strong> He’s the only character aside from Wolverine that can get Leonard the Wendigo to calm down, and so he winds up babysitting the poor guy while Wolverine pursues the main plot.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Leonard the Wendigo.<\/strong> Still prone to losing self-control when he’s left alone. He tears his way out of the Blackbird and apparently goes hunting for food, but (so far as we can tell) the heroes catch him before he can do any harm. He’s still able to moan Logan’s name and he can be gently steered by Logan or Kurt, but he seems at best hugely confused.<\/p>\n

Wolverine (Laura Kinney).<\/strong> Laura claims that she’s there to investigate an attack on some metallurgists the previous day, but she also says that she’s been feeling the Adamantine’s “call” in her skeleton – though evidently it’s faint.<\/p>\n

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

The Adamantine.<\/strong> It’s trying to rid the planet of adamantium, partly by transforming everyone with adamantium in their body, and partly by killing all the scientists who know how to make the stuff. In his vision, Wolverine experiences adamantine making a ringing noise, compared to “the screeching of man’s false metal adamantium”. Basically, it sees adamantium as a blasphemous imitation.<\/p>\n

Laura can sense its call even without being in its area, so it seems likely that as it’s growing power, it’s being picked up by people further and further away.<\/p>\n

The Adamantine’s mind-controlled servants currently consists of Cyber, the Constrictor, Lady Deathstrike\u00a0<\/strong>and newcomer\u00a0Donald Pierce<\/strong>, but none of them displays any of their normal personalities.<\/p>\n

Romulus.<\/strong> Oh lord, really?<\/p>\n

Romulus shows up at the end of the issue, claiming that he has gained control of the Adamantine’s power. That makes some sense, since the Adamantine’s goal seems to be more of an instinct – but then again, it seemed to be thinking about Wolverine in the previous issue, at least as relayed through the narrator.<\/p>\n

We last saw Romulus in Wolverine<\/em> #313 (2012), when he was captured and sent to the Raft. In earlier stories Romulus didn’t have any adamantium of his own, but used adamantium weapons; in that one, however, he seemed to have given himself claw implants. The idea seems to be that he’s heard the call just like the others, but has the strength of will to simply overpower the Adamantine – more than even Wolverine, who can resist it, but only enough to break its spell.<\/p>\n

Broadly speaking, there are two interpretations of Romulus in his earlier appearances. Daniel Way, who wrote most of his stories in Wolverine: Origins<\/em>, had him as the manipulator responsible for all the ways Wolverine had been mind controlled and exploited over the years. Basically, he was the personification of all the faceless forces that Wolverine needed to overcome, giving him an embodiment of those enemies that he could actually fight and defeat. The problem with Origins<\/em> was that it went absurdly over the top in working Romulus throughout Wolverine’s history. Later writers avoided the implications of this by simply never mentioning Romulus again.<\/p>\n

Jeph Loeb, who wrote the first Romulus story in Wolverine<\/em> #50-55 (2007), seemed to intend Romulus to be some sort of mythical figure of whom Wolverine was some sort of echo. This is an\u00a0extremely<\/em> generous reading of a storyline which was almost totally incoherent and unintelligible, but it perhaps explains the surprising choice to dust off this notoriously dud villain here – i.e., Adamantine is to adamantium as Romulus is to Wolverine.<\/p>\n

FOOTNOTES.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Page 10.<\/strong> Laura did indeed get adamantium during the Krakoan era, originally through a continuity error in Gerry Duggan’s X-Men<\/em> #5. The issue footnoted here,\u00a0X-Men<\/em> #10, has a flashback which tries to sort that problem by explaining that the Five got confused and gave her an adamantium skeleton by mistake.<\/p>\n

Page 16. <\/strong>Donald Pierce added adamantium to his components in Wolverine<\/em> #141.<\/p>\n

Page 24.<\/strong> The last time Wolverine met Romulus was in Wolverine<\/em> #313, as noted above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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