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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 #23<\/strong>
\n“Old Haunts”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Benjamin Percy<\/strong>
\nArtist: Adam Kubert<\/strong>
\nColourist: Frank Martin<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Cory Petit<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller with Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong>\u00a0Danger impales Wolverine and Deadpool on swords. It’s a callback to Adam Kubert’s own cover for\u00a0Wolverine<\/em>\u00a0#88 (1994), which has Deadpool impaling Wolverine in the same pose.<\/p>\n

PAGES 2-5.\u00a0<\/strong>Deadpool and Wolverine fight their way into the X-Men Mansion.<\/em><\/p>\n

The page layouts echo the opening pages of every issue in this arc (though I’d struggle to tell you quite what the point of that is). Apparently Danger has mocked up a Sentinel for our heroes to get past.<\/p>\n

This is interspersed with Wolverine reminiscing about the days when the Mansion was home, with images of the X-Men teaching pupils on the lawn, and having one of their signature baseball games. Wolverine, having been around for over a century, tells us that he has an all-things-pass attitude to the Institute, remembering it fondly enough, but recognising that attempts to recapture the past are bound to fail. Wolverine claims later in the issue that Danger and Deadpool are both making this sort of doomed attempt. It’s fairly obvious why that’s the case for Danger, who’s returned home to her place of awakening, and more of a stretch for Deadpool.<\/p>\n

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PAGE 6.<\/strong> Recap and credits. As with the previous issues in this arc, Deadpool offers his annotations.<\/p>\n

PAGES 7-8.<\/strong>\u00a0Deadpool turns serious.<\/em><\/p>\n

Deadpool decides that he really wanted to be in X-Force in order to rub shoulders with the greats, but recognises he’s not going to get in. Instead, he decides to ask Wolverine for a more realistic favour. Needless to say, dropping the schtick gets him a more sympathetic hearing. Wolverine is all about sincerity, after all, and responds much better to what he sees as a perfectly reasonable request for Krakoan drugs.<\/p>\n

Kubert draws the Mansion not just as overrun with Krakoan foliage, but with what seem too be abandoned possessions left in the students’ rooms. This is a bit weird, since the X-Men hardly left in a hurry, and I wonder if there are crossed wires here. Also, shouldn’t these bedrooms have… well, beds?<\/p>\n

PAGE<\/strong> 9.\u00a0<\/strong>Data page. Deadpool promptly reverts to being stupid, but of course we’ll get this scene (more or less) later in the issue.<\/p>\n

PAGES 10-11.<\/strong>\u00a0Wolverine and Deadpool fight past X-Men robots.<\/em><\/p>\n

Incredible Hulk<\/strong><\/em> #180<\/strong> is, technically, Wolverine’s first appearance – albeit on a last page cameo.<\/p>\n

The Wilhelm scream<\/strong> is a widely-used stock scream sound effect.<\/p>\n