{"id":11373,"date":"2025-09-05T22:28:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11373"},"modified":"2025-09-05T22:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:28:35","slug":"laura-kinney-wolverine-10-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11373","title":{"rendered":"Laura Kinney: Wolverine #10 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>LAURA KINNEY: WOLVERINE #10<\/strong>
\n“Blood Ties, part 2”<\/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 really isn’t going to take us very long.<\/p>\n

PAGE 1.\u00a0<\/strong>Clea starts tracking Gabby.<\/em><\/p>\n

The previous issue ended with Strega abducting Gabby and teleporting away. Supposedly Gabby’s healing powers mean that her blood strengthens Strega’s magic, and sustains Strega’s undead creations. The artefact that Clea mentions is the Sphere of Shooyen, which Strega grabbed in passing during the fight last issue, and which shows up again later in the issue.<\/p>\n

While Clea merrily sets about tracking Gabby with blood magic, we’ll see shortly that Strega has simply gone back to her base in the Paris catacombs, which would have been the obvious first place to check anyway.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2.\u00a0<\/strong>Laura speaks to<\/em>\u00a0Xarus.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the catchily named X-Men: Blood Hunt – Laura Kinney the<\/em> Wolverine\u00a0<\/em>#1 (they ran out of punctuation marks halfway through), Gabby rescued Xarus from vampires who were experimenting on him by feeding him mutant blood in the hope of giving him powers, as a trial run for doing it themselves if it worked. He does indeed unleash a single blast of red energy at the end of that story, although since the first thing that starts glowing is his hands, it’s not at all obvious that the original story had Cyclops’ optic beams in mind.<\/p>\n

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Xarus also used the same ability at the end of the previous issue. There wasn’t any suggestion in that issue that he was having trouble controlling them. Cyclops’ inability to control his optic beams has traditionally been attributed to a head injury rather than an innate aspect of the powers, so it makes reasonable sense that Xarus would find them easier to control.<\/p>\n

Laura spent much of last issue resenting Gabby’s bond with Xarus; she now seems to be moving on to blaming herself for leaving Gabby in Xarus’ company, while accepting that Xarus himself means well.<\/p>\n

PAGE 3.\u00a0<\/strong>Strega holds Gabby prisoner.<\/em><\/p>\n

Strega seems to be saying that she would have been minded to leave Gabby cursed as a punishment for entering her sanctuary, and not take it any further. But she couldn’t resist the opportunity to use her link with Gabby to enter the Sanctum Sanctorum and steal stuff when Laura went to Clea for help.<\/p>\n

Strega gives us a little speech about how she and her zombies are more of a family than Laura and co are. That’s obviously meant to be the thematic parallel here, but it doesn’t really take us very far because as far as we can tell none of Strega’s followers have personalities. The idea seems to be that she’s abducted all these people in an attempt to create her own family, but it isn’t really developed much beyond that.<\/p>\n

PAGES 4-5. <\/strong>Clea takes Wolverine, Xarus and Jonathan to the catacombs.<\/em><\/p>\n

PAGE 6.\u00a0<\/strong>Strega is alerted to the attack.<\/em><\/p>\n

All self-explanatory.<\/p>\n

PAGES 7-17. <\/strong>They fight.<\/em><\/p>\n

For some reason, Laura attributes Strega’s agility to the stolen artefact, even though Strega stated quite clearly last issue that Gabby’s blood would make her stronger.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Strega is defeated and uses her magic to restore Gabby to normal.<\/p>\n

PAGES 18-19.\u00a0<\/strong>Epilogue: Clea warns Laura about<\/em> Gabby.<\/p>\n

Gabby theorised last issue that her (temporary) excess skin was something to do with her healing factor overreacting to the curse. Clea appears to endorse that theory here, on the odd grounds that Gabby is a “clone, not a ‘natural’ mutant”. It’s hard to see why that should matter. Possibly the idea is that the magical curse has had some impact on Gabby’s healing power, and that magic cares about the difference between clones and “natural” people, even if biology doesn’t.<\/p>\n

Clea gives Gabby a necklace which seems to be significant, but if so, we don’t find out why. Gabby seems to take is as just a present.<\/p>\n

The final page ends with a rather clunky monologue about how Laura is happy to have a family and a supporting cast again. She refers to telling Bucky that “I didn’t know where I was going”, which was a rather vague speech about “still figuring out who I want to be” at the end of issue 5. Ultimately, though, we seem to have spent ten issues for Laura to figure out that she wants to be a mutant superhero, which she’s been for years already.<\/p>\n

This is the final issue of\u00a0Laura Kinney: Wolverine<\/em> for now; the “next” issue is\u00a0Laura Kinney: Sabretooth<\/em> #1, which is an “Age of Revelation” tie-in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LAURA KINNEY: WOLVERINE #10 “Blood Ties, part 2” Writer: Erica Schultz Artist: Giada Belviso Colour artist: Rachelle Rosenberg Letterer: Cory Petit Editor: Mark Basso This one really isn’t going to take us very long. PAGE 1.\u00a0Clea starts tracking Gabby. The previous issue ended with Strega abducting Gabby and teleporting away. Supposedly Gabby’s healing powers mean […]<\/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-11373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annotations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373","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=11373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11375,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373\/revisions\/11375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}