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\"\"<\/a>WOLVERINE vol 8 #17<\/strong>
\n“Cold and Alone”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Saladin Ahmed<\/strong>
\nArtist: Mart\u00edn C\u00f3ccolo<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Jesus Aburtov<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Cory Petit<\/strong>
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER:<\/strong> Wolverine and Silver Sable in the woods.<\/p>\n

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

He’s still dutifully training the New Morlocks when he isn’t sleeping with Silver Sable. His narration calls this a “comfortable” relationship which he believes neither of them sees as a particularly deep one; he sees Sable as a fellow warrior who understands him.<\/p>\n

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

Silver Sable.\u00a0<\/strong>Still hanging around with the New Morlocks and sleeping with Wolverine.<\/p>\n

Other mercenaries are aware on the rumour mill of what she’s up to.<\/p>\n

The New Morlocks.<\/strong> The group have moved on from their last camp after the encounter with Department H and have found some abandoned houses. We see an awful lot more of them this time, most of whom look like fairly ordinary people. The vast majority of them look human. At least some are actual humans who just happen to have a mutant in their family. Logan claims that they’re there because “there’s nowhere left for mutants to run to”, which doesn’t really make sense in terms of the rest of the line; Exceptional X-Men<\/em> and\u00a0NYX<\/em> both seemed to have mutants living fairly openly in major cities. Maybe he means specifically in Canada, this being the Marvel Universe and all.<\/p>\n

Wolverine clearly still doesn’t much rate their skills. When asked to organise a manhunt for the missing Tushar, he basically assigns everyone else busy work and then goes off to find the kid himself.<\/p>\n

Deepfake.<\/strong> She’s a teenager (which is apparently meant to be obvious from her appearance). She claims that her parents died in a car crash a year ago and her powers emerged when she learned the news; she ran away instead of going to “some creepy foster home for mutant teens”, whatever that means.<\/p>\n

Her eyes are apparently sockets full of energy, and she has to be able to see her energy duplicates in order to keep them in existence; shoving a bag over her head is enough to disrupt them.<\/p>\n

Like Chowdown in issue #15 she’s torn between appreciating Wolverine’s training and finding it all a bit much.<\/p>\n

Ape.\u00a0<\/strong>As in issue #15, he tells Deepfake that something bad happened to the original Morlocks but avoids going into any detail – it’s not entirely clear whether he’s trying to shield her from the details or just doesn’t want to talk about it.<\/p>\n

Chowdown.\u00a0<\/strong>He’s there among the New Morlocks.<\/p>\n

Tushar.\u00a0<\/strong>A very young mutant from Vancouver who apparently has the power to fix things just by touching them. He gets abducted by Coldbug and rescued.<\/p>\n

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

Coldbug.\u00a0<\/strong>First appearance. Wolverine initially calls him a mutant, but he then turns out to be an insect parasite inside a human-looking body – so it’s not clear whether the mutant is the insect, the host, or both. Coldbug himself is an insectoid who apparently possesses hosts and eventually consumes their bodies. He fires a venom that slows his victims down and saps their will. The toxin is apparently linked to him psychically, because its effect immediately wears off when Wolverine kills him.<\/p>\n

He speaks in basic broken English. When Wolverine finds him, he claims to be “feeding” and “hungry”, though it’s not entirely clear what the feeding involves – is he going to take him as a new host?<\/p>\n

On the face of it, Coldbug is simply a random passing monster – there doesn’t seem to be any wider reason for his attack here.<\/p>\n

The Adamantine.\u00a0<\/strong>Still fighting people who have been suggested as opponents by Romulus. In previous issues, Romulus sent it after retired boxers and UFC fighters. This time, he sends them after some eastern European mercenaries, who don’t do much better. All of this seems like Romulus is wasting the Adamantine’s time for some reason. That doesn’t seem to occur to the Adamantine (probably because it has no context to realise how low-rent Romulus’ targets are), but it\u00a0does<\/em> lose patience with him anyway, apparently concluding that he’s just useless at giving recommendations. They “decree Romulus’ time on this Earth at an end”, whatever that means, and claims that something called “the godling” will replace him.<\/p>\n

When pressed to identify “the best of your kind”, one of the mercenaries suggests Silver Sable, so these subplots will evidently join up with the main story next time.<\/p>\n

CONTINUITY REFERENCES:<\/strong><\/p>\n