Check out the forums for more details, if you’re interested.

http://forums.wolverinefiles.com/topic/2208922/1/

As for character deaths I am never for it. Yes there is a revolving door these days but it just makes it pointless to kill them off. Leads to sloppy and lazy story telling too knowing nothing has any real impact. I think if you are writing these characters then you should treat them with respect.

As for what or who Romulus is? It’s not for certain on anything yet but it certainly looks like John. Maybe they are simply ignoring Loeb’s run or perhaps there will be some explanation on the discrepancies. Not holding my breath on the later though.

i dunno, id have to at least for now kind of agree with jrpbsp as far as Way killing off damn near every major villain of logan’s and doing it without much regard not to mention a good climax. i definitely turned the page and was like “oh wow, i guess there goes another staple of the last two decades out of nowhere..” it definitely didnt feel right.

on the other hand, Way seemed to touch on this with logan’s dialogue (“some people might say that afer all these years… …omega red deserves better. those people would be wrong.”) this kind of seemed like way knew people would be mad that he kills him so quick, but wanted to anyway, possibly to bring the idea of a long running character’s still having mortality to the reader, as a kind of shock factor twist. cool idea i guess, but i was still mad when it happened the way it did. hecka sudden, even though it was a good example of wolverine being cool with killing someone when the x-men arent holding him back.

And If it IS John Howlett, how would that explain the whole Romulus being the first of their Lupine kind?? (i.e. the whole images of Romulus at the helm of early evolutionary battles as well as Roman fighting throughout history from wolverine 50-54) or are we supposed to have forgotten that whole shebang because Way thought it’d be cooler to make it his brother? Heck, at this point it’d make more sense to me if creed was his actual brother (ahem, besides the dna test) than if Romulus was, just based on age. wasn’t john born in 1885? (origin 2) am i missing something?

I do have one quibble with the review itself, that being this line, and all the lines relating to it (such as how Omega Red was connected, and so on):

Hopefully we will get some answers next issue and it will help make sense of this whole story arc.

I just wanted to point out that this series has always been a slow burn concept. We’re just now getting answers to questions posed in earlier issues. A fine example o this would be the issue where Logan’s plan to take out Daken came to fruition. Individually most of those threads seemed meaningless and/or half-assed, but then we saw how they all connected and it clicks into place.

That’s the nature of this entire series. How does Omega Red factor in and other such questions? We’ll probably be answers to all such questions, but it may be next issue, or it may be 20 issues down the road. That’s what this series does. It poses questions and plot lines with little context, and then sets it up as a big reveal 15 issues later.

As for the issue itself, I felt there was this sense of grandeur in the tone of the book. Maybe not in the events themselves, but all issue I had this feeling like something big was coming. And then, lo and behold, Romulus stood revealed. There was something in the tone of the issue that I can’t put my finger on that just felt like this was it, these were the first shots of the endgame.

I’m sure it shall all come together eventually, but it may not be next issue.

Anyway, let’s hear from those of you who liked this issue…