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\"\"<\/a>WOLVERINE vol 8 #10<\/strong>
\n“All Happy Families”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Saladin Ahmed<\/strong>
\nArtist: Javier Pina<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Bryan Valenza<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Cory Petit<\/strong>
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Okay, so I’m busy today, and this issue is a real blessing, because at least in terms of annotations, there’s not that much to say about it.<\/p>\n

Just to recap, issue #8 ended with Logan getting a letter supposedly from his mother, asking for his help. Issue #9 then saw him crossing paths with a yokel in a bar, then running into Department H before driving back to the ruins of the Howlett Estate. On arriving, he defeated Harpoon and Vertigo, and the issue ended with him claiming to pick up Sabretooth’s scent in the building.<\/p>\n

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This issue picks up directly from that, with Logan helpfully reminding us that Sabretooth is supposed to have died in\u00a0Wolverine<\/em> #50 (of the previous volume), and his mother shot herself back in\u00a0Origin<\/em> #3 over a century ago. In this version, the Howlett Estate is abandoned and in a state of decay, though the house is still full of dilapidated furniture. Logan claims to still recognise the underlying scent of the house from his childhood in Origin. <\/em><\/p>\n

As in issue #8, he’s adamant that he can pick up the actual scent of his mother. He also seems quite convinced that he’s dealing with the real Sabretooth – despite the latter’s scent being “hard to follow”. Logan attributes this to Sabretooth “masking it somehow”, but it all seems rather suspicious – the idea seems to be that scent is particularly convincing to Sabretooth and, at least where it concerns people with whom he has strong emotional ties, it cuts through his scepticism.<\/p>\n

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

Elizabeth Howlett.\u00a0<\/strong>Elizabeth – or at least the woman claiming to be her – is entirely convincing to Logan. She’s dressed in vintage clothes and she’s been chained up, presumably by Sabretooth. Logan verifies that she’s a real person with the correct scent. She certainly claims concern for him and seems to know that the ghosts are attacking him outside the room. She doesn’t seem to believe that she has any power over the ghosts, though, despite them deferring to her will almost at once.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth has four relatively fresh cuts on her face – our attention is drawn to them, but they’re not explained further.\u00a0 This wasn’t a feature of her death in\u00a0Origin<\/em> #3, but that scene did have multiple clawmarks on the face of Thomas Logan’s other son Dog, so that might mean something.<\/p>\n

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

The yokel from issue #9. <\/strong>This guy didn’t get a name in the previous issue either, but he’s been pressganged into attacking Wolverine in the house. He claims to have been forced to do this because his sister was taken hostage – Wolverine assumes the guy is blaming Sabretooth, but in fact he only ever refers to an unspecified “he”, which seems like it’s probably significant. There is indeed a seemingly dead woman elsewhere in the building who appears to be the sister.<\/p>\n

Sabretooth…?<\/strong> Logan seems convinced that he’s dealing with Sabretooth, and the cat-and-mouse aspects of the story fit with that, but it’s obviously all a bit suspect. Sabretooth does indeed show up at the end, drawn to look absolutely massive, though it’s hard to tell whether that’s actually the intent or whether it’s simply an art quirk. He’s wearing his traditional costume, but he had that in Wolverine<\/em> #50 too. He claims to want revenge for his death.<\/p>\n

The ghosts of John Howlett and Thomas Logan…?<\/strong> These two ghosts both have glowing red eyes. As the narration spells out, Thomas is Logan’s biological father, while John was his mother’s husband and the man he believed as a child to be his father. So these are his two competing father figures, though they act in much the same way, appearing as a duo and appearing horrified by him. Howlett has the gunshot wound that killed him in\u00a0Origin<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Logan is quite clear that neither of these ghosts has a scent, and that they seem to be incorporeal magical entities who can drain his life force. They both relent when Elizabeth calls to them to let Logan do. It’s obviously curious that these two show up as ghosts when Elizabeth appears to have been actually resurrected in some form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WOLVERINE vol 8 #10 “All Happy Families” Writer: Saladin Ahmed Artist: Javier Pina Colour artist: Bryan Valenza Letterer: Cory Petit Editor: Mark Basso WOLVERINE Okay, so I’m busy today, and this issue is a real blessing, because at least in terms of annotations, there’s not that much to say about it. Just to recap, issue […]<\/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-11157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annotations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11157","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=11157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11159,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11157\/revisions\/11159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}