{"id":11370,"date":"2025-09-04T22:28:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11370"},"modified":"2025-09-04T22:28:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:28:34","slug":"wolverine-13-annotations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11370","title":{"rendered":"Wolverine #13 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>WOLVERINE vol 8 #13<\/strong>
\n“Godfather for a Day”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Saladin Ahmed<\/strong>
\nArtist: Mart\u00edn C\u00f3ccolo<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Bryan Valenza<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Cory Petit<\/strong>
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER:<\/strong> Well, that’s Logan with Donna Angelina Andiamo and a bunch of dead guys. The logo is, of course, a parody of\u00a0The Godfather<\/em>.<\/p>\n

PAGES 1-3.<\/strong>\u00a0Wolverine and Nightcrawler in Louisiana.<\/em><\/p>\n

They’re at the X-Men’s base at Haven in Louisiana, from\u00a0Uncanny X-Men<\/em>. Nightcrawler is part of the regular cast of that book, but he’s continuing to serve the role of sounding board and supporting character that he had in the book’s first arc.<\/p>\n

Wolverine is attempting to drown his sorrows after the trauma of Mastermind faking his mother’s return from the dead in issues #9-12. As previously mentioned in issue #9 (and long established before then), this has little practical effect because his healing factor sobers him up almost immediately.<\/p>\n

PAGES 4-5.\u00a0<\/strong>Wolverine arrives at Donna Angelina Andiamo’s home in Chicago.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is a single-issue story, but as per the footnote, much of it was set up in the 5-page Wolverine backup strip in Giant-Size House of M<\/em> #2.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Most of that story is a flashback to 1920s Chicago. (The decade isn’t directly mentioned in that story, bt it’s fairly easy to infer it from dialogue, and Angelina confirms it directly in this issue.)<\/p>\n

Logan is working for Don Angelo Andiamo. He’s described as “a sort of freelancer here by way of our affiliates in Madripoor”, which fits well enough with continuity – Logan did indeed visit Madripoor for the first time in the 1920s, and his limited appearances from that part of history are things like him showing up as a Pinkerton.<\/p>\n

When Angelo is cornered by the rival Flanagan family, Logan is the only person to stick by his side, despite being a hired gun. Angelo gives Logan the Andiamo Signet ring to pass on to his son Ricardo, describing it as a “symbol of office, which legitimises Ricardo as my successor” – we’ll come back to that. Angelo then dies holding off the Flanagans while Logan escapes.<\/p>\n

For reasons which aren’t explained (“life got in the way”), Logan doesn’t deliver the ring – it’s possible that he gets promptly mindwiped by Romulus. When he regains all his blocked memories as a result of\u00a0House of M<\/em>, he remembers about the ring and returns it to Angelo’s great-granddaughter Angelina. He also offers her a favour as an apology for taking so long to fulfil his promise. Angelina is duly delighted, and claims that the Signet “gives us a real chance to make peace between the families” (which is explained in this story).<\/p>\n

Logan wasn’t in costume in that story, and while Angelina has evidently worked out that he’s Wolverine, she hasn’t chosen to share that with her henchmen – hence the fight here. Presumably she didn’t want to give away that he was Wolverine, since otherwise she’d surely have told the guys to expect him.<\/p>\n

PAGES 6-9.\u00a0<\/strong>Angelina asks Wolverine to become a temporary Don.<\/em><\/p>\n

Angelina’s pitch is that the Andiamo family mainly wants to end the gang wars in Chicago and restore stability. The Andiamo Signet is rumoured to have magical properties that help its holders to ensure peaceful rule, and indeed the family did go into gradual decline after Angelo died, before seeing an improvement when it returned. Most of the rival gangs have now made peace, but the Flanagans remain determined to fight. However, their patriarch Linus Flanagan wants to do a peace deal. So far, so relatively sensible.<\/p>\n

At this point the plot goes very much into “these are the arbitrary rules which the characters obey”. The peace treaty has to be signed in person by the family heads but Linus’ captains will kill Angelina if she tries to show up and sign it. And if she kills them in self-defence, Linus will be honour bound to refuse the contract. So the solution is to make Logan the temporary Don, and have him non-fatally subdue the recalcitrant captains before signing the deal. Which, once signed, will apparently be honoured by all these captains who currently have no compunction about ignoring Linus’s wishes. Bluntly, it’s a story which only works because most of the characters are honour bound to let the plot happen.<\/p>\n

PAGE 10.<\/strong>\u00a0Wolverine takes the Andiamo oaths.<\/em><\/p>\n

Angelina does clarify in narration what Wolverine is getting in return: she’ll release him from any further obligation to the family. However, if you buy the premise of the story in the first place, there’s nothing especially problematic about Wolverine playing along with this. He’s only being asked to fight some mobsters with a view to putting an end to a gang war.<\/p>\n

PAGES 11-16.\u00a0<\/strong>Wolverine fights his way to Linus Flanagan.<\/em><\/p>\n

Basically a fight scene. Nobody seems to raise any objection to the idea that Logan counts as the real Don (including Linus, who clearly hasn’t been tipped off, since he doesn’t know Logan’s name).<\/p>\n

“Pactum pacis<\/em>” just means “peace treaty”, as you’d epxect.<\/p>\n

PAGES 17-18.\u00a0<\/strong>Logan and Linus sign the treaty.<\/em><\/p>\n

PAGES 19-20.\u00a0<\/strong>Angelina releases Logan.<\/em><\/p>\n

More to the point (assuming that this issue has any wider significance), she indicates that the family may be willing to help Logan in future. Oh, and for some reason, the people in the restaurant include Jay and Silent Bob.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WOLVERINE vol 8 #13 “Godfather for a Day” Writer: Saladin Ahmed Artist: Mart\u00edn C\u00f3ccolo Colour artist: Bryan Valenza Letterer: Cory Petit Editor: Mark Basso COVER: Well, that’s Logan with Donna Angelina Andiamo and a bunch of dead guys. The logo is, of course, a parody of\u00a0The Godfather. PAGES 1-3.\u00a0Wolverine and Nightcrawler in Louisiana. They’re at […]<\/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-11370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annotations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370","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=11370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11372,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370\/revisions\/11372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}