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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 #27<\/strong>
\n“The Beast Agenda: Skulls”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Benjamin Percy<\/strong>
\nArtist: Juan Jos\u00e9 Ryp<\/strong>
\nColourist: Frank D’Armata<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Cory Petit<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller with Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong>\u00a0Wolverine with Beast’s control collar around his next.<\/p>\n

PAGES 2-4.\u00a0<\/strong>Wolverine is resurrected.<\/em><\/p>\n

We left off last issue with Wolverine imprisoned by Legacy House and the Beast bidding for the opportunity to kill him. We pick up that scene later on in a flashback, but for now, this is Logan being resurrected on Krakoa. It’s a routine enough event that only Hope and Tempus show up. When the Krakoa era started, resurrections were a huge deal with a quasi-religious ceremony (admittedly, mostly for the first return from the dead). Mind you, if they made a song and dance about every resurrection of X-Force, then it’d probably look a bit bleak to the mutant in the street.<\/p>\n

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“That adamantium influx was seriously so hard and annoying.”<\/strong>\u00a0This is one of the occasional hazy nods to the question of why characters like Wolverine are resurrected with implants intact. The usual indication has been that it’s mostly a matter of replicating the previous body rather than straight cloning, but Gerry Duggan’s explanation over in\u00a0X-Men<\/em> for Laura’s adamantium changing (due to a misunderstanding by Proteus) suggests that the Five are getting actively involved somewhere. Maybe they just err on the side of replicating the previous body unless someone has outright asked them to change it.<\/p>\n

Hope and Tempus are obviously suspicious of what Beast’s up to, but their attempts to question X-Force haven’t got very far in the past.<\/p>\n

PAGE 5.\u00a0<\/strong>Recap and credits.<\/p>\n

PAGES 6-7.\u00a0<\/strong>Montage: Wolverine kills people for the Beast.<\/em><\/p>\n

Obviously, this is a mind control angle. The Beast has decided that Wolverine is getting unacceptably independent-minded, and his solution is to use him as a brainwashed weapon just like Weapon X wanted to do. This is going to go down extremely badly with Wolverine, for all the obvious reasons, and so it seems like the Beast’s storyline is building to a conclusion. Having that happen in this book rather than\u00a0X-Force\u00a0<\/em>is a bit weird (but then I suppose that doing this angle in\u00a0X-Force<\/em> rather than in Wolverine’s solo title would also seem weird).<\/p>\n

Pollen.<\/strong> The drug derived from stolen Krakoan petals, as introduced way back in issue #1.<\/p>\n

PAGES 8-10.\u00a0<\/strong>Domino and Sage in the Green Lagoon.<\/em><\/p>\n

What’s left of X-Force’s field team (Domino, Deadpool and Omega Red) have just got back from fighting random serpent people in Marrakesh, which at least gives Juan Jos\u00e9 Ryp a change to draw a nice market page. Meanwhile, Sage’s alcoholism subplot continues, not very subtly. She seems oblivious to what’s happening with Wolverine, even given her general distrust of the Beast; presumably she has too much trust in Wolverine to take care of himself and stand up to Beast. More generally, Wolverine’s general behaviour means that people just aren’t too suspicious when he vanishes for a while, at least when Beast confirms that he’s still around. Domino, of course, is the exception – and the closest to a straightforward hero left in X-Force, other than Wolverine himself.<\/p>\n

The background guests in the Green Lagoon seem to include Bling!, Warlock, Dani Moonstar, Armor and Blink; the blonde in the generic New Mutants uniform doesn’t look very like Magik (who has a personal costume anyway) so perhaps it’s Magma. I’m sure I should recognise the hooded person with the dots instead of a face, but I’m blanking on it.<\/p>\n

PAGE 11.<\/strong> Montage: more killing.<\/em><\/p>\n

PAGES 12-13.\u00a0<\/strong>Beast feeds Wolverine.<\/em><\/p>\n

Given the flowers growing on it, and the weird tusk things, this is presumably one of the odd pieces of Krakoan wildlife that have occasionally shown up in Percy’s stories.<\/p>\n

PAGES 14-16.\u00a0<\/strong>Flashback: Beast and Wolverine at Legacy House.<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite some blather about making sure that Wolverine isn’t compromised, the Beast seems to be looking for an excuse to kill Wolverine and resurrect him. But even that doesn’t seem to fully explain what’s going on here, because the members of X-Force are resurrected really quite a lot. He could have just waited for the next convenient opportunity. So this seems to be more of a descent into sadism.<\/p>\n

Wolverine suggests that the eye patch and tuxedo are a knock-off of his own Patch persona, but it’s a bit of a stretch. The Beast actually is missing an eye and the art doesn’t really show a tuxedo so much as a 1920s professor outfit.<\/p>\n

PAGE 17.\u00a0<\/strong>Data page: a memo from the Beast to the members of X-Force convening a meeting to propose a more aggressive approach. Wolverine is included on the distribution list, for show.<\/p>\n

PAGES 18-19.\u00a0<\/strong>X-Force meet.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Beast has decided that what Krakoa needs is a reign of terror, apparently. He seems to have gone completely off the deep end here, since it’s hard to imagine most of the Quiet Council being indifferent about this – even the pragmatist villains like Mystique and Sebastian Shaw are unlikely to be comfortable with leaving a lunatic in charge of Krakoan intelligence. The Beast’s general attitude throughout the Percy run has been to stay in the shadows so that the Quiet Council can choose to believe what they want about his activities. This is a complete U-turn which appears absolutely self-destructive even by his own standards. So what’s going on?<\/p>\n

PAGES 20-21.<\/strong> Flashback: The aftermath of Wolverine’s death.<\/em><\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, the assorted villains do eventually go for Beast, who fights them off. Note that Beast has been almost entirely a non-combatant throughout the Krakoan era, and although he’s still capable of defeating a bunch of armed henchmen singlehandedly, he’s out of breath afterwards. We’ll presumably find out next time what happens to Jeff Bannister.<\/p>\n

PAGE 22.\u00a0<\/strong>Data page: a quote from Jeff Bannister. It’s got no direct relevance to the plot, but the suggestion might be (given the following scene) that Beast has somehow been compromised through falling into the trap Bannister describes here.<\/p>\n

PAGES 23-24.<\/strong>\u00a0Beast in his garden.<\/em><\/p>\n

Standard banality of evil stuff here, really. The Beast’s home is organic, but unlike the normal Krakoan designs, it resembles a traditional cottage.<\/p>\n

Apparently, somewhere along the line, the Beast has killed Wolverine, though heaven only knows why.<\/p>\n

PAGE 25.<\/strong> Trailers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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