Uncanny X-Men # 504-505, Secret Invasion: Dark Reign,
Uncanny X-Men Annual: Emma Frost, Uncanny X-Men # 506-507, Dark Avengers # 1,
Wolverine: Origins # 33-40
Norman Osborne is running the show now. As Emma begins to understand that Scott is
keeping secrets, she goes off and joins the Cabal alongside the like of Namor,
Doom, Osborne, Hood, and Loki. It’s
pretty cool to see them all together and certainly makes me wishes they had
just gone off and fought the Illuminati.
Oh well.
While they’re in the city, she and Namor head off and snag
Shaw for crimes Shaw helped commit to Atlantis back in the day. Shaw is then taken prisoner by Emma Frost and
is held in the X-Men’s basement/brig.
Meanwhile, word breaks that Cooperstown was wiped out due to a Mutant
being born there. Former Mutants show up
at the compound looking for refuge.
Colossus, to help clear his head, goes off and joins a
Russian mob and eventually finds some former mutants who had been brought to
America illegally as slave labor and hookers.
Colossus takes them back to the compound, and then he and Emma stomp the
mob.
Meanwhile, Maddie is gathering together a Sisterhood which
includes Spiral and a being-repaired Lady Deathstrike.
As this occurs, Beast and Archangel begin to assemble the
X-Club, including Doctor Nemesis, Box, and Doctor Yurkio Takiguchi. They fight Godzilla-lit.
Back in New York City, Osborne assembles his Avengers – Sentry,
Ares, Spider-Man (Venom), Marvel Boy, Ms. Marvel (Moonstone), Hawkeye
(Bullseye), Wolverine (Daken), and himself, the Iron Patriot. Nick Fury goes to Logan in a bar about this. In exchange for information about Daken, Fury
promises information about the Weapon X Project. Logan agrees.
Fury reveals that Logan’s mother was part of the Hudson
family – a name that’s been haunting him for years (honestly, it’s insanely
complicated – head over to UncannyXmen.net for a better and fuller
review). One of the Hudsons fathered
three sons: the Weapon X Professor; Victor Hudson; and James Hudson, the Alpha
Flight guy. The Hudsons have been the
pawns of Romulus for generations. Weapon
X was eventually built to control Wolverine and make him better. Stronger. And when Wolverine joined the X-Men, Romulus
focused his attention on Daken.
Daken is looking to get a hold of the Muramasa Blade and use
it become the next Weapon X. Using his
place as an Avenger, he draws Cyclops and the X-Men to New York. Frost confronts Osborne about calling Daken
off, but he claims to not know what he’s up to.
Daken fights the X-Men and (eventually) Wolverine and beats ‘em. The swords breaks and Daken takes part of
it. Cyclops gives the sword back to
Wolverine, damning his mission.
Fury tracks down the Tinkerer, who uses the sword to lace
Daken’s claws ala Wolverine. Wolverine
goes after Daken, but is confronted by Victor Hudson. They fight for a while and Wolverine tracks
Hudson to a train. This train leads him
to Daken, who reveals that Romulus is on the train. Wolverine tells Daken that he let Romulus go
to save him. Daken stabs Logan and
leaves.
Wolverine tracks the train and Victor Hudson and he is
eventually led to a prison in Russia, where he finds the recovered Carbonadium
Synthesizer – and Omega Red. They fight
for a while before Omega Red gets taken down and Wolverine leaves. Injured, Wild Child shows up to finish him
off. Wild Child tells Wolverine that the past few
events have been a competition of sorts to find Romulus’ successor. All that’s left are the two of them, Daken, Cyber,
and Omega Red. Wolverine, of course,
gets the advantage of Wild Child and kills him.
Two days later, he gets a package from Black Widow: the Muramasa
Blade. He uses this to kill Omega Red
and then finds himself face-to-face with Romulus himself. They fight, Wolverine eventually loses, and Romulus
leaves him to continue to be tested.
We’ll start with Wolverine Origins portion first. I liked that Way has found a way to bring in the
X-Men and the current state of the Marvel Universe that progresses the
story. While I’m not completely fond of
the overall Origins story, I found this to be a nice step forward and it’s great
to have some momentum going. Romulus was
a major disappointment overall and I’m actually wondering if he was supposed to
be from the beginning.
The X-Men stuff . . . hmm . . . well, I liked the X-Club
even though they’re pretty snotty. I
liked that Emma and Scott both have secrets and it’s creating tension between
them. I like that stuff. But I’m not excited by any of the
subplots. The lack of focus and clarity
on the characters harms the issues. I’m
not pleased with the way Cyclops just told Colossus to “hit something and get
better.” The scene where Nightcrawler
and Colossus were going to sit down and talk was something I was anticipating –
and then Cyclops walks in with Emma and they act like snobby assholes towards
him. Like I said, I’m not impressed.
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