![]() Larry Hama eventually does the Bloodscream origin around issue 87 or so, he explains the "can't be killed by mortal steel" thing for the one character, but no explanation is given for why that would have been true for Roughhouse as well. his speech patterns are very Thor-like, suggesting an Asgardian origin as well, and in issue 6 he says that he and Roughhouse both "can't be killed by mortal steel," suggesting a common origin for both of them. Same thing with Bloodsport/scream actually. (Issue 6 has a particularly blatant line.) But when Roughhouse turns up in Archie Goodwin's arc for issues 17-23, Goodwin seems to completely drop it and suggest that Roughhouse is just a strong dude (a mutant presumably). The clues that he's Asgardian are obvious in this first arc. ![]() That must have been after I stopped reading. "The former, who is incredibly strong and resiliant, will eventually be revealed to be Asgardian" Uncanny X-Men #242 reunites the X-Men and X-Factor, Illyana meets her destiny in New Mutants #73, and X-Factor #38 features the final fate of the Goblin Queen. ![]() Bottom line, this is the first issue of the series to feel like an issue of an ongoing series, and just not a showcase for a Wolverine solo adventure that could have appeared in multiple places, and that's a good thing. In Roughhouse and Bloodscream, we get new villains tied directly to this series, and with the first appearance of Tyger Tiger in the series and the gang war between her and General Coy, we get our first ongoing storyline specific to the setting of the series. In Chief Tai, Archie Corrigan, Jessica Drew and Lindsay McCabe (the later two still hanging around after last issue), we get a potential supporting cast for Wolverine. We've already gotten the physical setting of Madripoor, the somewhat-ludicrous Patch identity and the narrative complication that prevents Wolverine from using his claws too often, but in this issue, Madripoor gets fleshed out as a specific place, and we see Wolverine interacting with it as such, meeting with the chief of police, grappling with its politics and the machinations of rival crime lords. It's established this issue that Wolverine speaks Vietnamese, though it's a little rusty.Īfter an introductory three issue arc that was a pleasant enough bit of adventure storytelling but little else, this issue kicks off a story arc that start to do something this series desperately needs at this point: create a distinct setting and cast of characters for the series, a unique identity to differentiate it from Marvel Comics Presents serials or solo Wolverine stories in X-Men. The former, who is incredibly strong and resiliant, will eventually be revealed to be Asgardian, while the latter (called Bloodsport throughout this story he's Bloodscream in all subsequent appearances) is a long-lived vampire-like creature. This issue is the first appearance of villains Roughhouse and Bloodscream, both of whom will be recurring antagonists for Wolverine throughout the series. Meanwhile, Roughhouse and Bloodscream report to General Coy that they've failed to kill Tyger as a distraught Karma looks on, wondering what she's going to do. At the Princess Bar, Wolverine tasks Jessica and Lindsay with getting the injured Tyger to a safehouse, and the then leaves to visit Corrigan, calling in Tyger's marker. However, Karma suddenly appears, taking control of the villains' minds, enabling Wolverine and Tyger to escape. Later, Wolverine escorts Tyger Tiger to the Prince's palace, but they're ambushed by Roughhouse and Bloodscream. Jessica tracks her location and discovers a room filled with Tyger's people, all slaughtered, and she realizes they've landed themselves in a gang war. The next day, Jessica Drew and Lindsay McCabe are shopping in Lowtown when they come across a badly injured woman running into the market. She tells him she's working for her uncle, General Coy, for reasons of her own, and Wolverine tells her she needs to decide whose side she's on. He follows it to a hotel in Hightown, where he finds former New Mutant Karma. Meanwhile, Wolverine investigates the chancellor's death, sneaking into his palace compound, where he notes a familiar scent. Elsewhere, Roughhouse and Bloodscream, the two people who killed the chancellor, rough up pilot Archie Corrigan, telling him he works for their general now, not Tyger. Noting that the chancellor was prepared to recommend that the Prince acknowledge Tyger Tiger as the new crime lord, they worry that a gang war may be upon them. Later, Wolverine arrives on the scene as Police Chief Tai pulls the body from the river. In Madripoor, Chancellor Ranjamaryam is chased through Lowtown by two super-powered beings who ultimately kill him. Wolverine gets caught up in a Madripoorian crime war.
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