{"id":7058,"date":"2021-08-25T22:14:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T21:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7058"},"modified":"2021-08-25T22:14:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T21:14:04","slug":"wolverine-15-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7058","title":{"rendered":"Wolverine #15 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>WOLVERINE vol 7 #15<\/strong>
\n“Deceiver”<\/strong>
\nby Benjamin Percy, Adam Kubert & Frank Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong> Wolverine fights Sevyr Blackmore. The exposed metal is presumably\u00a0meant\u00a0<\/em>to reflect Sevyr’s acid attack, but it looks more cyborg-like. At any rate, nothing like that happens in the issue, so let’s call it symbolic.<\/p>\n

PAGES<\/strong>\u00a02-6.\u00a0<\/strong>Flashback: Sevyr raises Solem.<\/em><\/p>\n

Logan points out on page 8 that Sevyr is not a reliable narrator, but it seems likely that we’re meant to take all of this at face value. The gist is that Sevyr wiped out Solem’s village when he was a child, but was impressed enough by Solem to take him prisoner, and (after his skills became apparent) make him a pirate. Solem grows to become a rogue and trickster figure, and eventually avenges himself by cutting off Sevyr’s nose and stealing his ship. All this is new information.<\/p>\n

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Sevyr and Solem both seem to take it for granted that a severed body part can’t be fixed. Didn’t Arakko have any healers among their array of massively powerful mutants? Did they just not have much respect for non-combat powers? Or maybe, as a pirate, Sevyr simply didn’t have access to them.<\/p>\n

This flashback also portrays Amenth as more of a functioning society – albeit a brutal one – than we’ve seen in the past. Clearly the place wasn’t\u00a0literally\u00a0<\/em>non-stop combat with invading demons.<\/p>\n

PAGE 7.<\/strong> Recap and credits.<\/p>\n

PAGE 8.<\/strong>\u00a0Logan and Sevyr talk.<\/em><\/p>\n

“The thing that got him [Solem] thrown in the pit for a hundred years was this: he dirtied up the wrong marriage.”<\/strong> When Solem first appeared in issue #6, he was being held in a prison pit in the Tower of Broken Will, where he had been for “one hundred years and a season”. His crime was killing Bracken, the husband of War. The precise circumstances of that haven’t been revealed. In issue #6, War plainly hated Solem, and claimed that he “robbed me of my love and my child of his father.” Solem claimed that Bracken had “demanded to fight me. For his so-called honour.” The implication seems to be that, at the very least, Bracken\u00a0believed\u00a0<\/em>that Solem had been sleeping with War. Sevyr strongly implies something similar here, but it’s not obvious that he’d have any first hand knowledge.<\/p>\n

“Then Solem was freed… [and] heralded as a … champion of Arakko.”<\/strong> In issue #6, when he was selected (by Saturnyne) to fight for Arakko in the “X of Swords” tournament.<\/p>\n

PAGES 9-10.<\/strong>\u00a0Flashback: Sevyr catches up to Solem in Madripoor.<\/em><\/p>\n

“One month ago.”<\/strong> The timeline is getting a bit confused here. In\u00a0Planet-Size X-Men<\/em> #1, we were told that Arakko had only been on Earth for two weeks before relocating to Mars. That’s a bit of a squeeze but it just about works (though it also contradicts the timeline in\u00a0Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>, which is a whole other problem). This flashback apparently takes place in the run-up to “Hellfire Gala”, and the present day sequences must be several weeks past “Hellfire Gala”. That means that either Wolverine really took his time before starting to investigate the fate of the Marauder last issue, or he took forever to get around to actually hunting down the pirates in the second part of that issue.<\/p>\n

PAGES 11-15.<\/strong> Logan and Sevyr decide to fight.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, they’re not subtle characters.<\/p>\n

Sevyr’s summary of events aboard the\u00a0Marauder<\/em> basically matches what we saw last issue.<\/p>\n

“Magnetic flooring.”<\/strong> Solem has adamantium skin (he claims it’s flexible because of some sort of tiny chainmail pattern), so Sevyr’s plan is to trap him in place with an electromagnet. Actually quite sensible, and it works with Wolverine too. Quite\u00a0how<\/em> Solem could be born with a man-made alloy for skin… well, yes, but you could raise the same objection to Colossus’ power to turn into steel.<\/p>\n

“The Muramasa Blade.”<\/strong> In\u00a0Wolverine<\/em> #6 and\u00a0X-Force<\/em> #13, Wolverine and Solem went to hell in search of the Muramasa Blade that both of them had been instructed to retrieve for the X of Swords tournament. They wound up retrieving two swords, both made by the legendary Muramasa, and both supposedly containing a part of his soul. Hence, Sevyr is suggesting that destroying the sword will destroy Muramasa’s soul, or at least part of it.<\/p>\n

(These are different swords from the Muramasa Blade that was a fixture of\u00a0Daniel Way’s\u00a0Wolverine: Origins<\/em> back in the 2000s.)<\/p>\n

PAGES 16-18.<\/strong> Flashback: more of Solem and Sevyr’s fight.<\/em><\/p>\n

The key point here is that Solem uses his Muramasa Blade to bring down a chandelier so that he can escape Sevyr.<\/p>\n

PAGE<\/strong>\u00a019.\u00a0<\/strong>Sevyr demands that Wolverine bring him Solem.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I watched you in Saturnyne’s arena.”<\/strong> Presumably as one of the onlookers in the gallery in issue #7, when Solem made Wolverine fight War. In page 18 panel 4 of that issue, there is indeed a really big guy among the onlookers who just\u00a0might<\/em> be Sevyr.<\/p>\n

PAGE 20.<\/strong> Data page. Lots of examples of Solem doing roguish things in both Arakko and Earth. Some of these are ridiculous and you have to wonder where he’s finding the time, but heck, he’s clearly a trickster god figure. He has his ways.<\/p>\n

PAGES 21-22.<\/strong>\u00a0Wolverine finds that Solem has stolen his Muramasa Blade.<\/em><\/p>\n

Really, sneaking into Wolverine’s bedroom isn’t\u00a0that<\/em> challenging for Solem. He’s a mutant. He can use the gates. Bozos like Petra and Sway can get up to the Summer House. Still, this is obviously personal.<\/p>\n

PAGE<\/strong>\u00a023.\u00a0<\/strong>Data page. Wolverine spells out the plot.<\/p>\n

PAGE 24.<\/strong> Trailers. The Krakoan reads NEXT: FIND THE MOLE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition. WOLVERINE vol 7 #15 “Deceiver” by Benjamin Percy, Adam Kubert & Frank Martin COVER \/ PAGE 1. Wolverine fights Sevyr Blackmore. The exposed metal is presumably\u00a0meant\u00a0to reflect Sevyr’s acid attack, but it looks more cyborg-like. At any rate, nothing like that […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7058","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=7058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7060,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7058\/revisions\/7060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}