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

\"\"<\/a>WOLVERINE vol 7 #19<\/strong>
\n“The Old Mutant and the Sea”<\/strong>
\nby Benjamin Percy, Javi Fernandez & Matthew Wilson<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.\u00a0<\/strong>Well, it’s Wolverine on the surface with a monstrous sea creature below the surface.When I started doing these posts, I figured there would be plenty of X-books that weren’t that heavy on continuity and where the annotations would be pretty short. As it turns out, there weren’t. This one is getting there, though, so we might not be terribly long here.<\/p>\n

PAGES 2-3.<\/strong>\u00a0Wolverine hunts Krakoan wildlife while a corpse washes up on the beach.<\/em><\/p>\n

Percy seems to be the only writer interested (however tenuously) in the idea that Krakoa has distinctive animals on it. Anyway, Wolverine is hunting this thing so that he can use it as bait in his hunt for the Leviathan later in the issue. This is the final issue of this volume of\u00a0Wolverine<\/em> and, perhaps rather tellingly, it opens with a callback to Wolverine’s first scene in\u00a0X-Force<\/em> #1. In that scene, he was also hunting Krakoan wildlife and arguing that the paradise of Krakoa would lead to people dropping their guard and becoming soft. (Intriguingly, with hindsight, the character he lectures about this theme is the Beast, who starts off\u00a0X-Force<\/em> much less paranoid than he eventually becomes.)<\/p>\n

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PAGE 4.<\/strong> Recap and credits. The “recent mission” where Wolverine encountered the Leviathan was back in\u00a0X-Force<\/em> #16 (ten issues ago). He was shaken by it at the time, and that issue ends with a data page in which he claims to have felt meaningless by comparison its scale.<\/p>\n

The title references Ernest Hemingway’s 1952 novella\u00a0The Old Man and the Sea<\/em>, in which an ageing fisherman struggles with a giant marlin at sea. I’ve never read it, so if there’s any more substantial parallel, you’ll need to tell me.<\/p>\n

PAGE 5.<\/strong> Data page.<\/p>\n

“No-Places”<\/strong> are basically as described here – areas within Krakoa that Krakoa’s consciousness can’t access, allowing secrets to be kept in them. We established in\u00a0Inferno<\/em> #3 that Cypher and Warlock can in fact monitor the No-Places, but nobody else knows this yet.<\/p>\n

Tumours.<\/strong> The first tumour appeared in\u00a0X-Force<\/em> #15, and consumed a whale in that issue – presumably the source of the creature we see here. The zombified crew of the USS Siege attacked Krakoa at the end of that issue. The encounter with Namor was in X-Force<\/em> #16, and Wolverine’s closing quote comes from the data page at the end of that issue.<\/p>\n

PAGES 6-9.<\/strong>\u00a0Wolverine sets out to sea.<\/em><\/p>\n

The only reference in here is already footnoted. The narration picks up on the idea of Wolverine pitting himself against a force of nature which makes him feel insignificant by comparison. The sea, he says, is the only place you can go where you can still confront that sort of scale.<\/p>\n

PAGES 10-16.<\/strong>\u00a0Wolverine fights the Leviathan.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lovely art in this issue. There’s a great sense of scale and movement to it all.<\/p>\n

PAGE 17.<\/strong>\u00a0Wolverine readies himself to follow the Leviathan underwater.<\/em><\/p>\n

He recounts a story about being trapped after a mission “off the Jutland Peninsula”, and dying and coming back to life repeatedly due to drowning from the tide until he was rescued. Bit of a stretch, but there are stories which have Wolverine returning from the dead through healing by this point, thanks to his encounter with Lazaer in World War I. If this is meant to be the Battle of Jutland, it’s mid-1916, and this incident takes place between the flashbacks in “Logan Dies” (Wolverine<\/em> vol 3 #57-60) and the 1918 story in\u00a0Savage Wolverine<\/em> #21-22.<\/p>\n

PAGES 18-22.<\/strong> Wolverine defeats the Leviathan.<\/em><\/p>\n

The key idea here is that Wolverine\u00a0appreciates<\/em> Krakoa but doesn’t really believe in utopias; he feels alive in conflict, he has something of a death wish (or at least a tendency towards indirect self-harming), and he sees his role as being to shield the regular Krakoans from all this.<\/p>\n

PAGE 23.<\/strong> Data page, with a self-explanatory closing quote.<\/p>\n

PAGE 24.<\/strong> Trailers for\u00a0Wolverine<\/em> vol 8, coming in April. Apparently we’re getting a Deadpool story. The small print reads “Weapon X”, “Krakoa” and “Staten” (because that’s where Deadpool is currently based).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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