Writer Charles Soule
Penciler Peter Nguyen
Inker Sandu Florea
Colors John Kalisz & Brett Smith
Letterer VC’s Joe Caramagna
The flashbacks are over and now we build towards, The Wolverines!
So cool that Ogun is respecting Sharpe by incorporating his name into his identity, so now they are Shogun. Which makes sense due to how Sharpe is still conscious and has his own thoughts. At least, as of Weapon X Program 4.
Writer Charles Soule
Penciler Peter Nguyen
Inker Sandu Florea
Colors John Kalisz & Brett Smith
Letterer VC’s Joe Caramagna
Cover Dated February 2015
I bought this with my Christmas money, as Hastings didn’t have a copy. Then I went to buy some current comics and there was a copy there. What a waste of certificate money!
I haven’t gotten an issue of this series since the second one but really, all you needed was the first issue and this one – the bookend issues. This leads into The Wolverines.
Croatia. A Few Minutes Back. Daken and Sabretooth are still fighting. Some creature outside is in need, of something.
Right Now. Shogun introduces himself to the group of characters that will become known as, The Wolverines. He knows their names. Elixir is there as well, haven’t seen that guy in a while.
Lady Deathstrike references the trigger words that can completely control this group. The issues in-between the two bookends show what the characters were up to before the first issue.
The four trigger words command – sleep, control, kill and a mysterious fourth option.
Shogun instructs Elixir to wake Mystique. Elixir tells Shogun (and reminds us) that when his skin is black, his touch kills. His skin hasn’t been gold, his healing touch is active. Sabretooth offers to wake her via stepping on her – so this is prior to AXIS. Mystique grabs his foot and throws him into the electrified wall.
Neuro comes out, he looks great under Nguyen’s pencil, maybe it is Kalisz/Smith’s coloring?
I am reminded that Skel was the guy who was leading these characters into the room slash cage. Neuro recaps the Weapon X Program miniseries. The escapees are living on borrowed time. The escapees are hoping that one of the villains’ healing factors will be able to help them.
The fourth command word is, Erase, all of Professor Cornelius’ programming will disappear.
Shogun is about to reveal what they want when that demon thing from the cover crashes through the roof. The demon is another escapee named, Siphon. Exilir decides to take charge and is killed. Siphon does just that, it sucks energy. Shogun opens the cell that the villains can get out. Sabreooth runs towards Shogun, he says “Ovipositor” and now Sabretooth has to do whatever Shogun wants for 30 minutes or so.
Siphon doesn’t want his fellow escapees, he wants to kill the villains. X23 is running away, she doesn’t care about avenging her fallen teammate. She must not have graduated from Avengers Academy.
Siphon is absorbing Daken. X23 wants to keep running but decides to head back. She slashes Siphon, he jumps out of a window and we learn that Daken doesn’t have his healing factor anymore. So that explains his concern from Wolverines 1. That’s good to know.
Once everybody is outside, Neuro mentions how the number of people who know the command words could be numerous, that’s why they have to stick together.
Issue ends with Shogun revealing what the task is, he wants to get Statue Wolverine. Which they won’t be able to do without some sinister problems.
Writer Charles Soule
Artist & Cover Salvador Larroca
Colors Frank D’Armata
Letterer VC’s Cory Petit
Cover Dated January 2015
Hastings had this issue so that is one less on my Wishlist! Now that we know the black caption boxes with red letters is the voice of Ogun, I had to seek this issue out. I bought this for one dollar, which is pretty awesome.
The voice, let’s just refer to it as Ogun’s voice as there is no point of going along with the mystery now that we know who it is. Sharp wakes up as Ogun’s voice beckons. So this is how Sharp looks.
Paradise. Ogun tells Sharp to ignore the pain and start escaping. Maybe that isn’t Sharp’s face on the previous page as here, he has blonde hair and I don’t think blondes have dark eyebrow lashes. Plus, Larroca is making a point of keeping his face hidden. Oh, I bet that first face is Skel, but why put Ogun’s boxes on that page? I don’t know.
Sharp starts checking on the bodies on the ground but Ogun tells him to keep moving.
A guard who is walking Neuro . . . somewhere, is taken out by Sharp.
Sharp isn’t a test subject like Neuro, he was a volunteer. Neuro’s real name is Harold Stanch.
After donning a bulky gas mask, Sharp introduces himself. We get a quick flashback to Ogun during a war. How does anyone see out of googles? Ogun must be so annoyed as his depth perception is all off. Not depth perception, range of scope.
Nuero doesn’t remember much, he only recalling being slapped by the now dead guard and being placed in handcuffs. These two run into Junk and Skel, which I’m pretty proud that I know these codenames now, they finally left an impression on me. Also fun is that when this first goes their separate ways, these are the duos that stick together.
Junk doesn’t notice the smoke that Sharp does, which is probably do to his heighten senses. More soldiers come in and start firing away. Junk apparently has acid spit, so that’s gross. Sharp volunteers, it is what he does, to take on all of the soldiers as the others escape. Skel joins the fight and starts feeling better, the first hint of that.
Neuro stands too close to inspect Junk and he pushes him away, it is a very rude thing to do. Shape wants to head outside but down but Neuro corrects him, the best way out is up. He has analyzed that the smoke is below them, so down is where the fire is. Does Neuro get dust on his brain or does he have a glass plate over his noggin?
Sharp notices a lady, Endo, and gets her to join the group. She resists at first, and Ogun tells Sharp to slap her but Sharp convinces her that they are the best way to survive.
Endo stakes out the remaining guards around the helicopter and Sharp heads out to fight them. We get a flashback panel to Saigon, 1975, with Ogun getting onto a helicopter. I really like Ogun’s response to Wolverine’s metal coated skeleton corpose, hhh – who is he, Batman?
Sharp kills the soldiers. On the helicopter is a blonde lady, who we still don’t know the name of. Paradise crumbles as they fly away. Endo thanks Sharp for saving them all.
Sharp takes off his mask and sees Logan’s face in a reflection, which we know is an illusion as we’ve seen his blonde hair throughout the issue. It is a decent fakeout that it isn’t Ogun but Logan’s voice but I like this reveal as let’s keep Logan dead as long as possible. With Secret Wars 2015, we are going to be seeing a load of Wolverines, so it will be like he is with us again, soon enough.
Writer Charles Soule
Art Angel Unzueta & Iban Coello
Inks Pages 1 – 12 Drew Geraci
Colorist Frank D’Armata
Letterer VC’s Cory Petit
First comic of 2015, for me! Though it shouldn’t have been. I was at Hastings, excited to buy Wolverines 1 and I bought this issue as well, as I knew it lead into it but it turns out, I have it ordered on DCBS. I’m trying to get that one cancelled but I might end up having to sell the nicer one through Lonestar Comics.
New Orleans, Louisiana. Three guards are watching over Sharp as he silently threatens himself with a knife. We learn that his power is, extreme tactical awareness, battle strategy. He’s like Captain America, except he wants to kill everyone in the room. He was a Delta Force soldier. While talking about it, Sharp has disappeared from sight. He has worked himself up to where these fools are and starts beating on them.
The soldiers are never going to stop hunting the escapees. Ogun wants Sharp to kill these suckers. Sharp is told that the other four escapees have been captured. He wants to know where his new friends have gone.
The Gulf of Mexico. Arcadia. Neuro is being given a tour of the facility. Apparently there is a play of words with Paradise and Arcadia, it is beyond me.
Ogun doesn’t want Sharp to pursue this. Sharp doesn’t care but then Ogun mind blasts him. That’ll teach him.
Over in Arcadia. This place is a higher end version of Paradise. Neuro is shown where his three fellow escapees are being locked in.
There is a pretty cool looking ad for Agent Carter, that reminds me of Dick Tracy.
The Arcadia staff locks Neuro with the other escapees.
Sharp can feel how weak Ogun is. Sharp is willing to kill himself. Sharp wants to be good.
Sharp rips off his mask he has been wearing this entire time. Ogun has to tell him that he isn’t in the mask. Ogun’s mind blast was the last bit of strength he had. Ogun reoffers to be a working unit.
The lady staffer in Arcadia reveals to the escapees, once Neuro wakes up, that Neuro betrayed them.
I sort of really like the reveal here. Professor Cornelius had a plan. Take criminals and try to give them powers. If it works, give the powers to more suited individuals. If it doesn’t, who cares, dead criminals.
There is a break in and an alarm goes off.
Shogun is taking names!
The escapees are trying to figure out a way to break out.
Sharp wants to not kill those he is fighting but Ogun doesn’t want a rogues gallery. Who would?
Shogun is named! His word balloons are now in the Ogun voice. I’m not a fan of the lack-of-chin-strap portion of the mask.
Issue ends with Shogun leading the escapees right into Wolverines 1, they are going to undo the Weapon X Program. This leads into Logan Legacy 7 first, which I had to order with my Christmas giftcard and Shogun meets who will hopefully save the escapees. They all have expiration dates, I believe that includes Sharp. So they want the Wolverines’ healing factors to save themselves.
. . .
It has taken me 111 days to finally review a comic that I bought in 2015! I really do appreciate all of your patience. This, of course, means that we are four months behind on reviewing comics from this year.
For the month of May, I have big plans (which long time visitors probably can take a guess at) but we should be back to a regular posting schedule come June – I believe.
Thanks again!
Writer Charles Soule
Penciler Angel Unzueta
Inkers Marc Deering & Juan Vlasco
Colorist Frank D’Armata
Letterer VC’s Cory Petit
This issue, we get the confirmation that we so desired! But first, this stuff happened.
Shaker Heights, Cleveland. Endo is running along the streets, at top speed. She gets to a house and is looking for a Taylor. Three soldiers are ready for her, one is a green lady.
New Orleans, Louisiana. The other escapees are discussing how Endo ran away. They want to get her back. Neuro reviews her file, which he has as he hacked the database. Junk doesn’t like that Neuro has all of their secrets.
Junk and Skel want to go save Endo, but Neuro and Sharp want to go their own way. Before they announce their decision, Sharp and the voice in his head, have a discussion. I wonder if that happens in real time, are the others just staring at them the entire time, patiently waiting for a response?
Once Sharp and Neuro are outside of the van, Neuro wants to stick together. He gets a punch to his face for his foolish thought.
Cleveland. Endo is confronted by the three soldiers. They reveal Endo’s messed up origin. Taylor isn’t a dude, but a lady. Endo started life out as a man and he and his lady were trying for a baby, using fertility treatments. Professor Cornelius saw that Endo was perfect for what he was looking for. Apparently, it wasn’t Cornelius’ plan to turn him into a woman but that’s just what happens.
The snake lady hits Endo with some venom and forces him/her to grow in size. Junk and Skel show up to witness this and try to help out.
Neuro finds an Internet cafe and makes a call, as he has finally hacked all of the files and has some information to bargain with.
Sharp finds a quite space and threatens to cut his own throat unless the voice reveals who he is.
It is Ogun, yo! We get a quick recap of Death of Wolverine, including Ogun taking control of Kitty’s body.
Issue ends with Sharp in full Ogun garb. So now it is on!
Writer Charles Soule
Artist & Cover Salvador Larroca
Colorist Frank D’Armata
Letterer VC’s Cory Petit
Still buying this on the assumption (that I’m sure is correct) that Sharp’s second voice in his head is Ogun’s.
Issue opens Sharp modifying his Star Lord gas mask.
The mysterious voice says it is an improvement but it isn’t where it needs to be. When he wears it, the eyes glow red, red like the mask of Ogun.
Neuro wonders what Sharp looks like under the mask.
Outside Gonzales, Texas. Headed East on Us-10. Junk and Skel are bonding as Skel drives the van. Junk verbally tells Skel his origin. He was captured while walking on an open street and was experimented on. We see that he is lying and he was a prisoner.
Neuro mentions Logan. We see a computer screen with all of Logan’s aliases. Weapon X – Experiment 10 – James Howlett – Logan – Wolverine – Patch – Black Dragon – Mutant # 9601 – Emilio Garra – Agent Ten. I only don’t recognize Black Dragon and Emilio Garra.
With all of this chatter about Logan, Sharp sees a mental flashback of 1938’s Nanking, where he ran into Victor Creed.
Endo interrupts them, as she really wants to go home. They tell her that they are being followed and if she reaches out, the Weapon X folks will kill whoever she reaches out to.
Junk and Skel. Skel starts having a seizure. We get his origin of how he was a professional football player in Detroit, 1993.
There is a page of DCBS congratulating Marvel on 75 years. Go to http://www.dcbservice.com and save so much money!
Neuro speculates that Skel needs to constantly use his super strength or his body will start breaking down, so he lifts the van back on its wheels and feels better.
New Orleans, Louisiana. Sharp finds Sabretooth and they start fighting, naturally. Neuro attempts to talk to Creed. Sharp does a decent job of holding his own against Creed.
Once learning that Creed has a healing factor, Skel can cut loose and wail on him, so he does.
Sharp takes the time to interrogate Creed, revealing the 1938 Nanking connection. It isn’t Wolverine’s voice in his head as he was a spy in Madripoor at the time. I’m not sure that Ogun and Sabretooth had a connection prior to this.
The Garden District. Endo reaches out to her fiancee, and gets his voicemail.
Arcadia. We see the Weapon X clean up squad, and they have killed so many other escapees and others connected to the escapees.
So far, I’ve read two issues and this is a pretty good miniseries. Not the missable cash grab I thought it may have been. Though it is written by Soule, who wrote Death of Wolverine, so it makes sense that this will be quality and be important.
Cyclops in : You
Writer Jeff Loveness
Artist Mario Del Pennino
Colorist David Curiel
Letterer VC’s Joe Caramagna
Weapon X Facility. Canada. The story opens with Cyclops and his thoughts. He is reviewing his relationships. Two psychics. An unavailable space pirate for a father. A son who is older than him. A past version of himself who isn’t happy with him. Poor Rachel is left off the list as is Maddie.
Kitty shows up in the Cyclops’ first flashback sequence.
Cyclops claims that Wolverine is the most complicated relationship. Wolverine had it pretty easy. He didn’t have to worry about the team. He got to enjoy spending time with the team, as he didn’t have to worry about leading them to their deaths.
I really like how Jean isn’t harped on throughout the issue.
Years Ago. After Jean’s death, so Uncanny X-Men 138. Cyclops is leaving, Wolverine doesn’t want him to go, Cyclops stood up to the universe and now is a man Wolverine can respect.
We skip to X-Men Volume Two 25, when Magneto ripped ripped out Wolverine’s adamantium. After this, Wolverine was vulnerable. Cyclops helps Wolverine in the Danger Room.
Cyclops remembers other adventures but it all leads to Schism.
Kitty gets a mention!
Cyclops wonders what a funeral for Wolverine would be like. He suspects it would be more funeral for anyone than something specifically made for Wolverine. Kitty would probably offer a Bushido proverb. Such as : Life is for one generation; a good name is forever OR The clever hawk hides its claws.
Cyclops has decided to really honor Wolverine, so he goes to a seedy bar and starts a fight.
There is also a Nightcrawler / Colossus visiting Mariko’s grave.
The issue ends with a nice Hellion and Armor tale.
A Little Piece of You
Writer Rex Ogle
Penciler Patrick Scherberger
Inker Marc Deering
Colorist Rachelle Rosenberg
Letterer VC’s Joe Caramanga
This story opens with Armor in the Danger Room, she created a scenario where she fights all of Wolverine’s greatest enemies in a bar. Mystique, Sabretooth, Silver Samurai and Viper, no Ogun though. She starts decently but she is no matched for their combined might.
Hellion enters the Danger Room, turning off the scenario.
Armor references Wolverine’s “Are you a beer?” which he told her in Giant Size Astonishing X-Men, once Kitty was officially not coming back to Earth and he was depressed.
I like seeing this side of Hellion, he’s usually only a jerk or a hothead.
Hellion references the often repeated “Wolverine taking a young lady under his guidance.” He lists them, in order – Shadowcat, Jubilee, Armor, X23 and Oya. Poor Armor, she was hot for a moment and then Wolverine moved on to two other gals in no time, at all.
Armor ‘felt’ Wolverine died. She has never felt a non-family member’s death. Poor Armor, she has had some close relatives die, her grandfather, her mother and her brother.
Story ends with Armor accepting Wolverine’s death. I sort of want more Hellion and Armor scenes.
Writer Charles Soule
Artist & Cover Salvador Larroca
Colorist Frank D’Armata
Letterers VC’s Cory Petit & Joe Sabino
This series follows the (mis)adventures of those fools that Wolverine saved and died saving, foolishly. Not that the act was foolish but the way he did it. So they wouldn’t get adamantium, he cut the vat that was about to pour it into them, doing so, it poured all over him.
Proving all it takes for me to buy a comic is to show Kitty, at all.
Sharp, who not only is borrowing Star Lord’s mask, has a bonus voice in his head that speaks in red text on black caption boxes. He may have Wolverine as his bonus voice, but I suspect that it is Ogun and the Logan Legacy takes place after this miniseries, even though it came out second. That would explain why he sees Kitty there in the top panel.
If Ogun is in Sharp, I will have to seek out the first issue of this miniseries and probably the other issues as well.
Another reason why it is most likely Ogun, is that is the outfit Kitty wore during Kitty Pryde and Wolveirne.
So the six escapees are in a helicopter while another Weapon X helicopter is attacking them.
Sharp asks the brunette lady, Meifeng, to help out. There is a blonde lady but she is sleeping. Meifeng grabs a fire extinguisher and throws it at the attacking helicopter and both explode.
Sharp lands the helicopter on a train, so that if there is a tracking device on the helicopter, Weapon X will follow the train instead. The six of them jump off the train and into the river. Except one of them, lands into the sand next to it. The others suspect he is dead but he gets right back up. Each of them has a special power.
Neuro decides to explain what he suspects is their powers and provides them all with a codename. Junk, has ram horns. Meifeng gets the codename, Endo. Skel is the dude who survived the crash.
Later. Endo is using the river to see her reflection. Junk walks up to her, she accuses him of being a creeper. They all get attacked by some Weapon X soldiers. Sharp kills them all, his bonus voice in his head wants him to ditch the others and go on his own.
DCBS took out an ad congratulating Marvel on 75 years.
Once the threat is gone, Neuro wraps the truck the Weapon X guys showed up in, in some chicken wire as he knows that they have trackers inside of them. He finds some scanners and locates all of the trackers and takes them out. Endo is worried about getting more scars, which must be under her shirt.
Neuro goes over to the sleeping blonde. She wakes up, reads his mind, reveals that he has killed so many women. He kills her, the others show up, he explains (quickly) that her tracker was next to her throat and he missed and killed her. They buy it as she wasn’t a real person to them, she will probably go nameless.
The gang buries the blonde. Neuro takes this chance to talk to Sharp. Sharp’s voice tells him to not trust Neuro, as he is lying. Sharp is able to mentally talk to the voice so that’s interesting.
There is a seventh tracker, Neuro says that it is for a Victor Creed and they hope that he will be able to help them. To an early death, most likely.
I’m not sure if I’m getting any issue before issue 5 but if I do, we will review it here.
Eulogy, Part Two of Two, prepared by Jason Latour
Artists Payting their Respects :
Ben Caldwell
Farel Dalrymple & Rico Renzi
Jason Latour
Robbi Rodriguez & Israel Silva
Vanessa Del Ray & Rico Renzi
Chris Brunner & Rico Renzi
With Special Thanks to Brittany Heiner and Terrence Hoskins
Lettering & Producing VC’s Clayton Cowles
This is the first issue I’ve seen that lists “X-MEN created by STAN LEE and JACK KIRBY” I wonder what brought that on but good for Marvel!
I got this for the Lockheed appearance! That’s three issues now – seven, ten and this issue. Someone on the creative team is a fan!
I originally thought that it was either Kitty Pryde or X23 on the cover as Melita never crossed my mind months ago when I first saw the cover.
I’m sure parts of this issue take place before the last issue.
San Francisco, Months Ago. Melita and Wolverine are spending some time going over a Captain America v Nazi Frankenstein.
New York City, Today. Melita is standing next to a Doop stand. Spider-Man shows up and swings away with her. She wants to hire Peter Parker and Spider-Man informs her that Parker no longer works as a photographer. Melita hints that Peter and Spider-Man may have a sexual relationship. She calls him, Webster, which is cute.
She can’t make eye contact with Spider-Man but can after telling him that Wolverine is dead. Spider-Man, after this, must inform the rest of the superhero community.
We get a flashback of Spider-Man and Wolverine fighting Doombots in Castle Doom.
See Lockheed in the Later panel, on the far right edge of the panel, and in the middle.
I like the idea of, Doop Hard, that is a movie I could get behind.
Melita and Spider-Man talk to Quentin Quire, he plays it cool that Wolverine is dead. Spider-Man webs his mouth shut. Shame this isn’t the last issue, as this would have segued into the new series, that replaces this one, Spider-Man and the X-Men.
Now we have caught up with last issue as Storm makes time to speak to Melita. Though at the end of last issue, she mentions having to speak still to both Quire and Storm, so who knows. Storm treats us to a flashback of when she lost her powers in the 80s. So did Wolverine take Storm back to Japan, immediately after they left Japan? Maybe Storm, in-between Uncanny X-Men 174 / 175, went and brought Wolverine back to the States.
Epilogue. The Savage Land. Quire places an indestructible chair with the words, Old Fart Logan, on it.
Writer Tim Seeley
Artist Ariela Kristantina
Colorist Sonia Oback
Letterer VC’s Joe Caramagna
New Charles Xavier School for Mutants. Former home of the Weapon X project. The All New X-Men are watching X23 lay into some robots in the Danger Room. Angel agrees to go talk to X23 about Wolverine’s death.
Later. Kitty confronts Laura about what happened. Laura needs to leave for a while, to sort her thoughts. Laura isn’t sad about Wolverine’s death, she is angry.
That top panel is a tad confusing. We have the Original Five X-Men on the left. On the right, I am not sure. Beast with a moustache. I think that is Kitty instead of Jean. It looks like past Angel instead of long hair present day Angel. Iceman is correct.
X23 really makes a point of pointing out Wolverine’s colors of blue and gold. That will pay off later.
Later. The Perdition Room, Toronto. Laura is at a Canadian club. Some jerk propositions Laura. She opening admits to being a former prostitute. Which is weird.
A gang of militants called, the Happy Clams, comes in and starts shooting up the place. X23 starts stabbing fools.
Next, a hero called, The Chinook, shows up and starts taking foes down. He is also known as, The Hero of Hogtown, and, The Knight Tempest.
X23 saves a male cage dancer, shr comments on liking his panties. That is also weird.
The police show up and Chinook takes X23 to his hideout, Airstream. He mentions Wolverine. His real name is, Colin Ashworth Hume. He use to work for several places – Canadian Armed Forces, Roxxon Security Administrator and Chief Administrator of Alpha Flight. Also, former mutant due to M-Day. He was Code Name : Windshear, essentially, he was the Great Northern Iron Man. He has Leukemia and finished another round of chemo.
Funny how X23 thinks, Chinook, was a breed of dog. I figured it was wind related, and it is. He teaches her the importance of symbols.
The Happy Clam gang works for Pearl and X23 and Chinook team up to take her down. Wind of Justice, indeed.
Thanks to Tumblr user evie-a for hosting these last images!
New Charles Xavier School for Mutants. A few days later. The All New X-Men are in the Danger Room. Meanwhile, Kitty is taking a moment to mourn her departed friend. As far as I can tell, this is the only place Kitty has been shown to mourn Wolverine’s death. Also, the only place she is scheduled to do so. She is not listed as a main character in any of the proper Post-Death titles.
X23 shows up and Kitty runs to the Danger Room.
Laura has found two new senses – Pride and Fashion.
No Ogun so I wonder if I am good until the final and seventh issue.
 | Luke Petersen on Bounce Patrol |
 | John Klein III on Astonishing X-Men 15 |
 | MoxieMk5 on Astonishing X-Men 15 |
| Moxiemk5 on SDCC : New Mutants @ Home |
| John Klein III on Excalibur 39 |
Shadow and Flame with Magik 