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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 #38<\/strong>
\n“Last Mutant Standing, part 2”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Benjamin Percy<\/strong>
\nArtist: Juan Jos\u00e9 Ryp<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Frank D’Armata<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Cory Petit<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller & Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Mark Basso<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1:<\/strong> Wolverine and Captain America in action, surrounded by … well, obscured figures, because the identity of the villain is a reveal halfway through the issue. They’re wearing the hats of typical Legacy House agents, though.<\/p>\n

As with the previous issue, we get some actual lettering on the cover, which seems to be a thing for this “series of team-ups” arc. (If “arc” is the right word – it’s really more a series of linked one-shots.)<\/p>\n

PAGES 2-4.\u00a0<\/strong>Logan approaches Steve Rogers in a bar.<\/em><\/p>\n

Logan’s explanation for how he’s evading the Orchis patrols is simply that people don’t recognise him out of costume. Which… Wolverine’s pretty recognisable, isn’t he? It’s not too hard to find stories where members of the general public recognise the short guy with the unusual hair on sight. It happens in the recent Fallen Friend<\/em> one-shot when he shows up to Kamala Khan’s memorial service. I know you have to turn a blind eye to this sort of thing for the book to function at all during “Fall of X”, but maybe just go with “he’s good at dodging the patrols”?<\/p>\n

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It’s not exactly clear why Logan turns down the offer of help from the Avengers, or why (in plot terms) he’s singled out Captain America for this team-up in the first place. Thematically, the idea is that Legacy House are about history and so is Captain America, though it’s a bit loose.<\/p>\n

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

PAGES 6-12.\u00a0<\/strong>Cap and Logan find that somebody has already raided the Orchis ship.<\/em><\/p>\n

Logan says in narration that the ship is meant to be full of things left behind by the mutants – he says that the “pulled a heist on the mutant vault”. It’s not entirely clear what that means (what vault?) or when this happens. Some of the things we see later come from Wolverine’s home in the Summer House, which was on the Moon. But a lot of them come from Krakoa itself, and that seems to contradict the Professor X storyline in Immortal X-Men<\/em>, where the whole point is that nobody can get past Professor X to land on Krakoa proper.<\/p>\n

I suppose in theory Orchis could have raided the place while the mutants were marching through the gates, but if so it seems odd that they didn’t leave a force there to secure it. To be fair, you could also argue that this was a bizarre oversight on Orchis’ part even aside from this issue.\u00a0Another possible explanation is that the vault isn’t on Krakoa proper, but that doesn’t seem to be the intention – Jeff Bannister’s data page says that Orchis “raided the island”.<\/p>\n

PAGE 13.\u00a0<\/strong>Data page. Jeff Bannister reports back to Wolverine and basically suggests that Legacy House\u00a0<\/strong>stole all the trinkets that Orchis had stolen. That makes sense, since Legacy House’s whole thing is stealing superhero and supervillain memorabilia and re-selling it on the black market.<\/p>\n

We last saw Legacy House in this book in issue #27, as part of the sequence of events which led to Beast killing Wolverine and resurrecting him as a mind-controller assassin.<\/p>\n

PAGES 14-15. <\/strong>Cap and Wolverine board Legacy House’s liner.<\/em><\/p>\n

Most of the people on the splash page are random bystanders, but there are a handful of recognisable characters in there. The guy in the green and yellow battle suit at the bottom of the stairs on the left is\u00a0Chance<\/strong>, a Spider-Man villain. Near the middle of the picture, the guy in monochrome with the white hair and jet black skin is another Spider-Man villain,\u00a0Mr Negative<\/strong>. There’s also a guy in a blue costume who I don’t immediately recognise.<\/p>\n

There are also a few people in here who don’t look human, such as the elephant woman leaving a trail of slime behind her, but who seem to be just random people from the superhuman underworld.<\/p>\n

There are a whole group of hooded guys in the top right. Back at the first Legacy House auction, there was another group of hooded men (not quite identical to this) who were identified as members of\u00a0Order of X<\/strong>, the quasi-religious cult of humans who worshipped mutants. We haven’t heard much about their thoughts on Fall of X, but it would make sense for them to show up for something like this.<\/p>\n

PAGE 16.\u00a0<\/strong>The Merchant begins his introduction.<\/em><\/p>\n

The objects shown in floating globes, from left to right, are:<\/p>\n