{"id":9622,"date":"2023-11-23T22:10:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T22:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9622"},"modified":"2023-11-23T22:10:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T22:10:10","slug":"wolverine-39-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9622","title":{"rendered":"Wolverine #39 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>WOLVERINE vol 7 #39<\/strong>
\n“Last Mutant Standing, part 3”<\/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 the Black Panther fight Orchis.<\/p>\n

This should be a fairly short one, because it’s simply another one-shot story with a guest star. Nothing wrong with that, mind you.<\/p>\n

PAGES 2-4.<\/strong> Jun Wei is rejected by the Wakandan Prime Minister.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wakanda.<\/strong> The current status quo in\u00a0Black Panther<\/em> is that T’Challa has been exiled, and the country is currently supposed to be undergoing a transition to democracy under the leadership of Prime Minister\u00a0Folasade<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Jun Wei<\/strong> is the same Orchis officer who was kidnapped and briefly controlled by Chronicler over in\u00a0X-Force<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“As you know, we are responsible for the exile of the mutants from Earth…”\u00a0<\/strong>This is Orchis’s standard explanation of what happened in\u00a0Hellfire Gala.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Wakanda was wise not to sign the treaty with<\/strong> Krakoa.”<\/strong> Wakanda has indeed always been listed as refusing to enter into a treaty with Krakoa, on a list otherwise populated mainly by dodgy regimes. The official reason given was that the Wakandans simply didn’t need Krakoan drugs, and so Krakoa had no leverage with them. Black Panther<\/i> has become rather more equivocal in its depiction of Wakanda over the last few years, but it’s still positioned here very clearly as taking the moral high ground. (Though not, apparently to the extent of actually offering mutants asylum.)<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Kovu<\/strong>, the corrupt businessman, is a new character.<\/p>\n

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

PAGE 6.\u00a0<\/strong>Data page. Another memo from Jeff Bannister, pointing Wolverine to another one-shot story that he can share with a guest star. Basically, Orchis want to get their hands on some vibranium, in order to keep up their supply of robots.<\/p>\n

PAGE 7.\u00a0<\/strong>Logan arrives in Birnin T’Chaka.<\/em><\/p>\n

Birnin T’Chaka<\/strong> is the setting for the current\u00a0Black Panther<\/em> series. It’s Wakandan Gotham, basically. As depicted in that series (at least the two issues that have reached Unlimited), it’s still a high tech city, and the social security system is impeccable, but the people are comparatively poor and the crime levels are high. Oh, and T’Challa is an urban-legend vigilante, and there’s a sexy socially conscious thief in the supporting cast. You get the picture.<\/p>\n

“They’d looted our homes…”<\/strong> That was the subject of last issue’s Captain America team-up.<\/p>\n

The kid who Logan pays to look after his bike shops him to Kovu in three pages time.<\/p>\n

PAGES 8-10. <\/strong>Jun and Kovu talk.<\/em><\/p>\n

Presumably, Kovu can bite through metal because he’s got vibranium teeth. I rather like the fact that the guy doesn’t have access to vibranium but he’s offering her regular old useful metals. Nice to see Wakanda having a second export industry beyond vibranium trinkets.<\/p>\n

PAGES 11-13. <\/strong>Kovu’s men attack Logan, and Black Panther steps in.<\/em><\/p>\n

Black Panther\u00a0is<\/em> wearing a new costume, but everyone in his own book instantly recognises what it’s meant to be (even if they’re often sceptical about who’s wearing it).<\/p>\n

PAGE 14.\u00a0<\/strong>Kovu shows Jun his mine.<\/em><\/p>\n

PAGES 15-16.\u00a0<\/strong>Logan and Black Panther travel to the mine.<\/em><\/p>\n

Logan can’t resist annoying the Panther about his break-ups with Storm, having always seen him as a rival. Ultimately, though, they seem to unite around the idea that Storm is either missing or dead thanks to Orchis, and they both want to avenge her. In fact, they’re sort of wrong – Storm wasn’t even at the Hellfire Gala and she’s been on Mars the whole time, over in X-Men Red<\/em>. But Orchis\u00a0did<\/em> disable the Krakoan gates that would have allowed her to return to Earth, so fair enough.<\/p>\n

PAGES 17-22. <\/strong>Logan and the Black Panther defeat the bad guys.<\/em><\/p>\n

The stuff about Wakanda losing its way without the Black Panther, and T’Challa wanting to restore those values, is a theme of his solo book. When Kovu says there’s “no oversight” in Birnin T’Chaka, he’s basically talking about high levels of corruption, rather than a complete breakdown of law and order.<\/p>\n

Jun Wei has the good fortune to avoid getting killed by the heroes a\u00a0second<\/em> time, though she’s handed over to the authorities in the next issue.<\/p>\n

PAGE 23.\u00a0<\/strong>Data page: Logan updates Jeff Bannister on the boring stuff that happened after the main story. Basically, Black Panther gets his sister Shuri (who’s in the government) to make sure Jun is properly dealt with. And Wolverine steals an Orchis ship, which he’ll be using next issue.<\/p>\n

PAGE 24.\u00a0<\/strong>Logan bids farewell to Black Panther.<\/em><\/p>\n

PAGE 25.<\/strong> Trailers. The Krakoan reads LAST MUTANT STANDING PART FOUR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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