WARNING! Potential spoilers ahead for Wolverine: Revenge #2WolverineandDeadpoolmay have become best friends on film, but the death ofCaptain Americais enough to drive a wedge between their newfound bromance in the world of Marvel Comics. The preview forWolverine: Revenge#2 shows how Marvel’s dynamic X-duo could fall apart in an alternate continuity where Earth has been plunged into post-apocalyptic wasteland…
Coming from the creative team of Jonathan Hickman, Greg Capullo, Tim Townsend, FCO Plascencia and Cory Petit,Wolverine: Revenge#2 continues the story of a world where Magneto crashed Asteroid M above North America, killing millions and plunging most of the world into darkness.Nick Fury assembles a strike team including Wolverine, Captain America and the Winter Solider to infiltrate Russia, one of the last countries in the world to maintain a power grid after Asteroid M’s detonation. Cap and Bucky wind up getting killed by a coterie ofX-villains led by none other than Colossus, sending Wolverine on his titular quest for revenge.
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The preview for the second issue highlights what’s at stake for the characters in this world. As Nick Fury notes, all that’s left of the American experiment are “less than twenty nuclear subs.” Driving home how dire the situation is, Fury predicts it won’t be long before those subs become “warlords and pirates,”making this perhaps thebleakest alternate future continuity the Marvel Universehas yet seen.At this point in the story, Wolverine isn’t fighting for anything other than a dish served cold of revenge – a twisted mission in a world that doesn’t look to be around for too much longer.
On Wolverine’s “Death List Five” areSabretooth, Omega Red and Deadpool, the last of whom isdirectly responsible for killing Captain America and the Winter Soldier after planting bombs in their chests. Wolverine got the same treatment, but his healing factor meant that Logan survived the blast. As such, Wolverine’s friendship with Deadpool is truly and finally over in this continuity, even though Wade admits there’s nothing personal in his actions; he’s simply working for the highest bidder. Perhaps even more stinging for Logan is the betrayal of Colossus, who has chosen to side with his native country now that the world has been plunged into darkness.
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Exactly how Wolverine gets his revenge remains to be seen, but he’s got a few more issues to go before the five-issue run ofWolverine: Revengereaches its bloody conclusion. Given its out-of-continuity nature, the story could go in any direction.As evidenced by all the deaths in the first issue, no character is safe in the world ofWolverine: Revenge.After the death ofCaptain America,Deadpoolwill have to keep his wits about him, asWolverineis on a war path of vengeance.
Wolverine: Revenge#2is on sale 9/25 from Marvel Comics.
Wolverine
The human mutant Wolverine (a.k.a. Logan) was born James Howlett, blessed with a superhuman healing factor, senses, and physiology. Subjecting himself to experimentation to augment his skeleton and claws with adamantium, Logan is as deadly as he is reckless, impulsive, and short-tempered. Making him the X-Men’s wildest and deadliest member, and one of Marvel Comics' biggest stars. He’s played in Fox and Marvel’s movie franchises by Hugh Jackman.
