Marvel Comics have revealed the first interior pages from the historic Death of Wolverine #1.
You'll miss him when he's gone. Wolverine has been one of the most omnipresent characters in the Marvel Universe for decades now. Only Spider-Man does more guest appearances than the clawed, unkillable one. Well, scratch that last part. Logan is going "down pericope" in the immediate future and for the foreseeable future this September "thanks" to Charles Soule and Steve McNiven, and it all starts with Death of Wolverine#1.
Check out the preview pages for Death of Wolverine#1, in which Logan gets a grim diagnosis from Mr. Fantastic, and more info below:
Here's the official synopsis for Death of Wolverine:
Left without his mutant healing factor, his enemies now close in for the kill – and the Wolverine faces his greatest battle alone. A battle he will not return from. After a century of being the best there is at what he does, the day has arrived where his best will not be good enough.
With no X-Men or Avengers to help him, he’ll square off against Lady Deathstrike, Sabretooth and more of his deadliest enemies! Each one inching him one step closer to death than the last. But one foe in particular is prepared to strike the final blow. An old enemy with the deepest of ties to Wolverine’s past has returned. Lurking in the shadows, their master plan to end the Wolverine has been set in motion – and there’s no stopping it!
“The basic idea [of Death of Wolverine], is that both Wolverine and the reader will be reflecting on Logan’s life as the story builds to the ending,” says series writer Charles Soule in an interview with Marvel.com. “We’ll get a better understanding of why this guy makes the choices he makes, and the path that led him to where we end up. Each issue is built around a different part of Wolverine’s history, in a loose way, and each has a slightly different feel; we’ve seen a lot of different versions of James Howlett over the years, everything from Patch to Weapon X, and versions of many of them will appear here.”
Death of Wolverine #1 will arrive in stores on September 3rd, with a new issue of the four-issue mini-series to follow every week after that. And then, y'know, that's it. Wolvie is toast. Until they bring him back.
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