{"id":12332,"date":"2026-09-09T21:21:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12332"},"modified":"2026-09-09T21:21:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:21:45","slug":"wolverine-27-annotations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12332","title":{"rendered":"Wolverine #27 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>WOLVERINE vol 8 #27<\/strong>
\n“This Man, This Metal”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Saladin Ahmed<\/strong>
\nArtist: Julius Ohta<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Jesus Aburtov<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Cory Petit<\/strong>
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER:<\/strong> Wolverine holding up his claws, with one of the other three Savage Champions – Wolf With A Gun, Red Hare and Boneclaw – reflected in each claw. It’s a loose homage to the cover of\u00a0Incredible Hulk<\/em> #340.<\/p>\n

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

His narration says that “I’ve recently learned that I’m one of the Savage Champions – warriors with the power and duty to defeat the Adamantine”. That’s his pep talk from Athena in issue #19, which is also the source of the material in this story about the Savage Champions embodying man, beast and metal. Broadly, the point of this story seems to be to convince him that he should get his adamantium restored, by reminding him that his status as a Savage Champion, and thus his ability to beat threats like the Adamantine, depends on being a combination of man, beast and metal. He seems ultimately to be won round to the idea that he can only fulfil his role as a protector by embracing his adamantium.<\/p>\n

The other three Champions seem to defer to his leadership, despite the fact that he’s got the least experience with the Adamantine of all of them. This may just be because he’s the only one who’s actually voicing any sort of ideas. His approach is to go for the mammoth’s unprotected eyes, which is basically how he beat Romulus in issue #8.<\/p>\n

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When he requires to summon willpower in a mystical contest against the Adamantine, he can call on the nearby Savage Champions for support. Of course, they’re all supposed to be mystically destined to fight the Adamantine.<\/p>\n

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

Red Hare.\u00a0<\/strong>He and Boneclaw can both take a direct hit from an Adamantine-empowered mammoth and get straight back up. As Wolverine himself points out, it’s not clear whether they have the same power set as him, or whether they’re just superhumanly resilient.<\/p>\n

Boneclaw.\u00a0<\/strong>Well, he’s a growling cave-Wolverine, isn’t he? Wolverine gets him to take Colossus’s role in the Fastball Special – which means that he can understand what Wolverine is saying. That might be because of the mental link between them as Savage Champions, though. I hadn’t really picked up on this before, but his club seems to be metal, presumably to fulfil the man\/beast\/metal remit. God knows where he got it from, because he certainly doesn’t seem to have invented any form of metalworking technology.<\/p>\n

Wolf With a Gun. <\/strong>He just randomly shows up to help, as the three Champions did in issue #20. His Spanish-language dialogue loosely translates as:<\/p>\n