This is a collection of my posts from X, my main social and the first place I post everything. You’ll find video game guides, comics, fiction, my writing and author updates, and other topics I cover.
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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
After reading Weapon X, there's another reason this pairing works. Logan has been subjected to people messing with his body, his perceptions and his ability to choose. They wanted to produce behavior they could use. Ogun does something comp...
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In #6, after Logan beats Ogun, Kitty gets the opportunity to execute him. She takes up the sword, then stops. Logan has deliberately brought her to that decision. She needed to know she could refuse. There's a lot to be uncomfortable with t...
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By #5, Kitty is taking action herself. She goes after Shigematsu over what he's done to her father. Then she works out that Mariko and the little girl in her care could be targets for Ogun and tries to protect them. She's using what she kno...
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In #4, Kitty wakes up without understanding everything she's done. Logan has to help her face what happened, including what Ogun has left inside her. Then he starts training her while he's still recovering from the injury she gave him. She...
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In #3, the masked ninja fighting Logan knows how to keep him at a disadvantage. His sense of smell gets interfered with, poison slows him down, and he has to hide long enough for his body to recover. As the fight continues, the clues start...
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Kitty follows her father to Japan because she discovers he's involved with people she doesn't trust. Then she falls into Ogun's hands, and a family problem becomes something much worse. Ogun takes over her mind and turns her into a ninja. W...
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Mariko gives Logan her family's honor sword after Shingen's death. She also tells him what she had been prepared to do about her father herself. She has recognized what Shingen has done to the family. That matters because Logan can't settle...
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In #4, Logan works through Shingen's organization. He isn't immediately storming into the same room to try the same fight again. He takes away the people and protection Shingen has been relying on. Shingen receives the hoods of his defeated...
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In #3, Yukio gets Logan onto the train tracks and waits until the train is almost on them. He barely gets them clear. She's enjoying the danger. He's drunk enough that he takes too long to figure out what's happening. Later, he finds his fr...
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Yukio is comfortable with violence, danger and Logan behaving badly. Being around her gives him somewhere to go after that humiliation, without having to explain himself or act like the man he thinks Mariko deserves. But there are consequen...
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Logan goes looking for Mariko and finds out her father has married her to another man. He wants her to leave with him. She feels bound by obligations he can't simply talk her out of. Shingen makes the situation worse on purpose. Logan is po...
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Wolverine's first miniseries starts with him hunting a bear. The bear has been killing people, but when Logan finds out what happened to it, there's a human being responsible too. Somebody wounded it with a poisoned arrow and left it suffer...
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Then Joe Fixit arrives in #7–8, and Logan gets to handle Hulk in a very different way from their usual fights. Joe needs information. Patch knows the place, knows the people and can point him toward trouble that is useful to him. By #8, Log...
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Archie Corrigan gets a good example of that pressure in #5. He's flying with Patch, and Bloodsport has frightened him into considering turning on him. Logan notices something wrong. His senses pick up Bloodsport's presence on Archie, and th...
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General Coy creates another problem. With Roche gone, there's an opportunity for someone else to take the business. Coy is perfectly willing to use Roughouse and Bloodsport against Tyger to get it. Then Karma is there beside her uncle. Seei...
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The first three issues of the ongoing involve the Black Blade, with Jessica Drew, Lindsay McCabe and Silver Samurai getting pulled into the situation. Right from the start, Madripoor can support more than ordinary gang fights. There's a dan...
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There are also two different looks here that are worth separating. Patch is the eyepatch identity he uses around Madripoor. The dark, sleeveless combat outfit with the strip across his eyes is another part of how he's operating in these sto...
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Tyger Tiger is the big example. Logan recognizes her as Jessan Hoan, the woman the X-Men encountered during the Reavers story. What happened to her hasn't simply disappeared now that she's away from them. She's become involved in Madripoor'...
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I mentioned Madripoor in the earlier Wolverine thread, but there's more going on in those first solo stories than Logan putting on an eyepatch and hanging around a bar. Marvel Comics Presents #1–10, "Save the Tiger," gives him an ongoing pr...
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The message makes Creed's attitude pretty clear. He considers killing Logan his privilege, and he doesn't intend to let somebody else take it away from him. So even when his interference keeps somebody else from finishing Logan off, there's...
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