Writer Paul Cornell

Penciler Alan Davis

Inker Mark Farmer

Colorist Matt Hollingsworth

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

Killable Part Five of Six

Issue opens with Wolverine’s reaction to Silver Samurai’s cut to his eye.  I do like how the creative team tells and shows that Wolverine got a cut across his eye, yet the reveal if the damage done takes several pages to be shown.

Wolverine continues to be beaten by The Hand.

He stumbles away from that encounter, to surprise a lone Hand member.  That guy surrenders but Wolverine doesn’t give a dman and kills him.  An easy kill, and an unnecessary death.  This is the page that shows Wolverine’s eye bleeding.  I forget he has blue eyes.  Just like Captain America, Batman and Superman.

We cut to Kitty Pryde, the mall cops and the rest of the mall shoppers.  We get the name of one of the lady officers, Kathy Stubbs.  This group is held up in a safe place.

Wolverine comes in, badly injured and he reveals to everyone in the room that he killed killed the ninja that tried to surrendered.

This upsets Kitty, as X-Men don’t kill.

The mustached mutant hater officer gets angry over the revelation.  Pointing fingers and calling Wolverine an animal.

This engages Wolverine, and he cuts the officer’s hand.

Kitty rushes over to the injured officer, asking anyone for a tourniquet.  Turns out, the officer was Mystique!  I didn’t know that she can have a hand cut off, and then still have a hand when she shape shifts.  Mystique taunts Kitty and Wolverine, then crashes through a window.

Kitty tries to sooth Wolverine, telling him that he must have known on some level that he knew it was Mystique.  I reckon that he didn’t, and would have permanently injured a man, whose real crime was name calling.  Though he was prejudiced, so he probably had it coming to him.

Wolverine leaves the room, searching for Sabretooth.  Once he finds him, we see him wearing a sharp business suit.  Then we see Sabretooth just straight up beat Wolverine.

Issue ends with Sabretooth very awkwardly standing over Wolverine.  Sabretooth might just win next issue.

Writer Paul Cornell

Penciler Alan Davis

Inker Mark Farmer

Colorist Matt Hollingsworth

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

Killable Part Four of Six

First, how great is that cover!  I do enjoy Davis and Farmer.  I even like their take on Wolverine, like how his mask’s ears and how small they are.  Makes him look sleeker.

I missed out on issue ten, but what I can tell, Kitty and Wolverine get trapped in a mall with Sabretooth’s new brand of the Hand, and a slew of mall cops and customers.

Kitty fights these Hand ninjas pretty well.  Wolverine is still trying to get a handle on not having his healing factor.

One of the ninjas straight up kills one of the guards.  Turns out, one of the guards isca stupid mutie hater.  Kitty calms everybody calm.

The Hand was prepared for Kitty, as they rigged the walls with a type of electricity current that blocks her escape.   Wolverine’s senses have also been dampened.

We get a great sight gag, very Scooby Doo-esque, with them going through one door and out another, but in the same hallway.

Hollingsworth does an uncanny job on colors, with a constant blue tone throughout the issue.

The deal with Sabretooth’s new Hand, is that each finger is an elite ninja.

Wolverine pops his claws, and is committed to not sheath them again, until this adventure is done.

Issue ends with the new Silver Samurai attacking Wolverine.

Hopefully Kitty is still involved in the next issue.

Writer Paul Cornell

Penciler Alan Davis

Inker Mark Farmer

Colorist Matt Hollingsworth

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

Killable Part Two of Six

How great is it to read a comic with the amazing team of Davis / Farmer drawing Kitty Pryde again?  This issue, we get them drawing Rachel too!

So between last and this issue, Mystique destroyed most of Logan’s items in in his bedroom at the mansion.

Which is a horrible thing to do, but hasn’t this been done before?  I know, there are no new ideas anymore, but as far as I know, it has been done only once before, and within the past two years.

The Hellverine Saga, where Logan died, and demons took over his body, and the X-Men had to bring him down.  There was a moment wherein this group of henchmen found Logan’s secret storage unit in a distant land and set all the contents on fire.  When I read that issue, there was a moment of shock, as Logan is so old now, and those items are personal and highly likely to be one of a kind.  Plus, I worry about my possessions being burn or water damaged beyond repair.

Poor Logan here, thought his bedroom in the mansion was safe enough to start collecting possessions again.  I like that you can tell that the items are relatively new or bought.

Warbird’s “It’s precisely that, you should respond with massive retaliation.”  Makes me smile.  Her character does lend herself to some nicer comments.

When Logan uses his double negative, you can see that Logan meant to do it, and Kitty caught it.

I really like how Cornell has been building a friendship between Logan and Hank.  You can really tell that Hank values Logan, and just wants to look out for him.

We officially start  the Wolverine / Kitty road trip!

First stop, getting blown out of the sky, by Batroc, The Leaper!

Now, I know that Batroc is seen by most as a joke character.  I know Marvel has gone out of their way to protray him that way, but I like Batroc the Leaper.

I like that he is an expert in savate, the French version of kickboxing.

I just want to be on record, before the next Captain America movie comes out, and more people come around on Batroc.  I am really hoping, that his movie costume has at least some type of purple color scheme, as it really is a nice classic costume design.

Kitty’s “oh no, it’s Batroc the Leaper.  The category is — phrases you never hear.”  Great line!  Kitty is funny, and I am not sure when was the last time I heard her make a joke.

Also, great use of turning the page reveal.

The six page fight between Wolverine and Batroc is stunning.  The art pips off the page, I want to say it is do to the background having been colored mostly yellow, as they are outside and in the wilderness, so all three costumes (which are all yellow based or accented) non-yellow parts really stand out.

Excellent fight choreography too!

I like the concept of Wolverine having to pick his spots, of when to pop the claws.  He has gotten lazy due to having one of the best weapons around.  He is famous for his fighting styles, but he rarely has to utilize those skills.

Next issue, Logan takes Kitty home to the Howlett Estate.  Which I am pretty sure, is the first time Wolverine has been back there.