{"id":10930,"date":"2025-03-28T21:27:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10930"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:27:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:27:40","slug":"laura-kinney-wolverine-4-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10930","title":{"rendered":"Laura Kinney: Wolverine #4 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>LAURA KINNEY: WOLVERINE #4<\/strong>
\n“Brother in Arms, part 1”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Erica Schultz<\/strong>
\nArtist: Giada Belviso<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Rachelle Rosenberg<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Cory Petit<\/strong>
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

This one won’t take us long.<\/p>\n

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

Bucky claims to be enlisting her help because he needs an “old-school tracker” to locate Henrick Schneider. She doesn’t believe this is the whole story but doesn’t seem to press him on it. She seems to be happy enough to go along for the sake of the road trip and the chance to go after a Nazi mad scientist. Bucky specifically sells to her the fact that Schneider tortured mutants.<\/p>\n

Naturally enough, she sees Bucky as “not so different from me”, as they’re both would-be heroes trying to escape a past when they were used as weapons. This was also the theme with Elektra, the guest star in the previous arc.<\/p>\n

She’s surprised to find that the unnamed mutant they rescue in Red Oak wanted to keep it secret that he was a mutant, and has to remind herself that not all mutants are “ready to be out” (to be fair, there weren’t many closeted mutants on Krakoa, nor is she meeting many in\u00a0NYX<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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She likes fighting robots because she doesn’t have to hold back, but wonders whether this is indulging the violent side that Logan always struggled with.<\/p>\n

GUEST CAST<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Revolution.<\/strong> Bucky Barnes has been using this codename since Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty<\/em> in 2022, although X-readers may not have noticed. It originally ties to a storyline about the Illuminati-like “Outer Circle” group, but none of that really matters for the purposes of this story.<\/p>\n

He wants to hunt down Nazi scientist Henrick Schneider, whom he fought alongside Captain America back in 1942. Beyond that, he’s conspicuously vague about why this is only coming up now (though he implies that he’s only just discovered Schneider is alive) and why he’s asking Laura to help him when they barely know one another. While he claims to want a tracker to help locate him, the reality is that no actual tracking seems to be required.<\/p>\n

For some reason he’s very antsy about going “back” to Indiana, and wants to drive straight through the state without stopping. This begs the question of why he’s chosen to drive from New York to Iowa at all – aside from the fact that it’s a 16 hours drive, when he could just get a flight to Cedar Rapids in less than half that time, there’s no realistic way of making this drive without<\/em> going through Indiana. The story doesn’t spell this out (because Laura doesn’t know), but Indiana is Bucky’s established birthplace, so it’s likely that he’s referring to some sort of childhood trauma.<\/p>\n

He regards the mutant from Red Oak as simply ungrateful, but shrugs it off rather than thinking much further about it.<\/p>\n

He calls a town “older than I am”, as if it was somehow unusual to see a town built as long ago as the 1800s. From a British perspective, this is adorably American.<\/p>\n

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

Henrick Schneider.<\/strong> A Nazi scientist from World War II who used radiation to mutate humans and enhance existing mutants. As far as I can tell, he’s a new character. He also built giant skull robots with tentacle legs; some of them also appear in the present day, and those ones have HYDRA logos.<\/p>\n

He seems to be hiding out in Iowa building robots. When our heroes reach him, he identifies them as the Winter Soldier and X-23; on being told that those aren’t their names, he replies “that is how I know you”, so perhaps he’s meant to have some connection to Laura’s back story with the Facility.<\/p>\n

Jack and Mickey.<\/strong> A bigoted petrol station attendant and his fat balding mate (they have another friend hanging around, but he doesn’t get a name). Jack has strong views on mutants; with hindsight, much of his anti-mutant rant seems to be directed at the closeted mutant waiting in the queue, who mentions later on that there have always been rumours about him. That would also explain why Jack jumps directly to the conclusion that he’s dealing with mutants, without really seeing any evidence of it.<\/p>\n

Mickey harasses Laura on the forecourt, then jumps straight to attacking her with a knife when she rejects his advances. This is a bit odd – is Mickey really in the habit of attacking female customers with knives, right in front of Jack and at least two customers (one of whom is not a friend), and presumably with the CCTV switched on? It doesn’t seem like it can be good for trade.<\/p>\n

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

Page 4 panel 1: There actually is a place called Redoak in Ohio (not “Red Oak”), but it’s on the border with Kentucky, not Indiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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