{"id":11216,"date":"2025-07-10T21:48:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11216"},"modified":"2025-07-10T21:48:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:48:58","slug":"laura-kinney-wolverine-8-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11216","title":{"rendered":"Laura Kinney: Wolverine #8 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>LAURA KINNEY: WOLVERINE #8<\/strong>
\n\u201cHonor Bound\u201d<\/strong>
\nWriter: Erica Schultz<\/strong>
\nArtist: Giada Belviso<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Rachelle Rosenberg<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Cory Petit<\/strong>
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

She mentions checking the Treehouse for \u201cnew leads\u201d – that refers back to the message drop that she found in issue #1.<\/p>\n

When going after MGH dealers, she chooses to wear her black and grey X-Force uniform from the Utopia period. She observes that \u201cbeing on X-Force taught me that you can do things that no one has to know about\u201d. In practice, she seems to be using it for added stealth.<\/p>\n

She refers to Bucky telling her in issue #5 that \u201cif there\u2019s one thing a Wolverine has, it\u2019s time\u201d. His point was that she had plenty of time to figure things out and come to terms with pars of her life.<\/p>\n

Seeing Polly and Haymaker as a couple reminds her of her illusory life in issues #6-7 where she was in a couple with Julian Keller, and makes her wonder whether that\u2019s what she always wanted. NYX<\/em> was clearly setting the two of them up as a couple before it was cancelled.<\/p>\n

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

Haymaker.<\/strong> Jordan Gastin was introduced in the 2023 continuity-implant miniseries X-23: Deadly Regenesis<\/em>, also written by Erca Schultz. This is their first appearance outside that miniseries.<\/p>\n

Haymaker\u2019s back story involves them being an MMA fighter whose criminal brother Drew was killed by Laura, back when she was X-23 and an assassin for hire.To avenge his brother, Jordan winds up working for Kimura under the name Haymaker, and gets powered up with MGH (Mutant Growth Hormone). Eventually Haymaker figures out that they\u2019re on the wrong side and joins forces with X-23.<\/p>\n

Without access to MGH, Haymaker has no superhuman powers, and is simply an MMA fighter with a costume. They\u2019re now working with Polly (see below) to fund her Oasis project by stealing cash from low-level criminals. Haymaker regards Oasis as a big deal, and they and Polly are clearly a couple.<\/p>\n

Polly.\u00a0<\/strong>Polly\u2019s only previous appearance was in issue #1, where she was running a mutant refuge in Dubai. For some reason she\u2019s now setting up a New York branch, even though NYX is surely covering some of this territory already.<\/p>\n

Scout.\u00a0<\/strong>Gabby shows up on Laura\u2019s front steps at the end of the issue with half her face mutilated. Since Gabby doesn\u2019t feel pain, we can\u2019t read too much into her relatively muted reaction. She also appears with Laura in this week\u2019s\u00a0Uncanny X-Men <\/em>#17, looking absolutely fine, and she looks normal on the covers of the next two issues as well. Basically, it looks like a Masque story, but we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

She still has Jonathan, her pet wolverine.<\/p>\n

Emery<\/strong> and Ivan<\/strong>, the mutant siblings from issue #1, appear in cameo at the opening of Oasis Flatiron; they talk about Murder Me, Mutina<\/em>, the slasher film from this week\u2019s\u00a0Uncanny<\/em>. As in that issue, nobody seems surprised that a mutant teen might want to see the film – evidently the promotion isn\u2019t outrageously anti-mutant.<\/p>\n

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

A group of MGH dealers. <\/strong>They\u2019re getting desperate mutants to sell them their powers, and are powerful enough to beat Laura into unconsciousness. Unless they\u2019ve found a massively powerful mutant to work with, that may suggest some actual fighting skill beyond their powers. They run away when faced with a mysterious figure that we don\u2019t see.<\/p>\n

CAMEO APPEARANCES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Luke Cage<\/strong> has a single line of dialogue over the phone, congratulating Laura for taking down the dealers.<\/p>\n

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