Wolverine and the X-Men 37
Aaron (w) and Camuncoli and Currie (a) and Milla w/ Silva (c)
A big fight breaks out as Scott's Uncanny X-Men arrive on the scene of the future's Brotherhood trying to send the original X-Men back to the past. Or, to be more precise, one doesn't break out because Xorn goes into Scott's head and stalls him there while they escape. The Brotherhood bring the original X-Men to Cape Citadel, the site of their first fight with Magneto, and are pretty public about their appearance, drawing the other X-Men teams and SHIELD to the base. Amidst all the fighting, Maria Hill appears in her helicarrier and tells the mutants to stand down. Xorn, unbeknownst to the other mutants, takes control of the helicarrier's weapons and fires down on all the mutants, showing the original X-Men that humans hate and fear them.
Guys, this is still stupid. There's still too much winking about the future, there's still way, way too much banter in these fights, there are still too many fights, there's still too much craziness in the plot, there are still too many characters, and this is still stupid. I can't add too much more than that, honestly, because I can't say more than I've already said, both here and in all my other posts about Battle of the Atom. One more, though. One more.
Savage Wolverine 10
Jock (w and a) and Loughridge (c)
Wolverine is still on the foreign planet and still awfully confused about it. He gets some answers but mostly questions from the kid he's now traveling with but they do manage to find themselves squared off against a giant ship. Wolverine, the kid in tow, hurls himself at the ship and manages to grab hold, tossing the kid aboard before pulling himself in. It's apparently the kid the people in the ship are after and Wolverine ends up having to fight out through the henchmen loaded up on the ship. It's easy enough for him but still one of the bad guys manages to pull the kid into an escape pod and leave the ship. Wolverine follows them and, with a great deal of pain, brings the ship down, killing the pilot and rescuing the kid. Their crash-landing throws them under the surface of the planet, where they happen upon a lab of some sort with a whole bunch of stasis tubes.
Like last issue, this one's a little hard to judge as we still don't have a ton of information on the plot of the arc. It seems like most of it will be revealed in the arc's conclusion next issue. Still, this one's not bad for the intense Wolverine-ing we get as Wolvy does his best to keep the kid's spirits up and to fight his way viciously through whatever enemies he runs into. The art is pretty gorgeous (as are Loughridge's colors, the second time this week I've pointed that out) and Jock uses his time on the book to illustrate the violent side of Wolverine, the one that dives at would-be assailants with his claws out. Weirdly, it seems, Wolverine doesn't feel the same when he's able to be wounded, as in Cornell's book right now. This Wolverine feels pretty classic; brooding, more than a little lost, and just really, really violent. I'm not complaining.
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