Marvel Comics just released solicitations for their March 2010 comics. Below are the major Wolverine-related appearances…
WOLVERINE WEAPON X #11
Written by JASON AARON
Pencils & Cover by RON GARNEY
“TOMORROW DIES TODAY” PART ONE: Beginning an epic, action-packed arc featuring the debut of an all-new, all-different Deathlok. Killer cyborgs have come from the future to kill the heroes of today, while Wolverine embarks on an international pub crawl with a certain recently reborn Sentinel of Liberty. Beer and bullets galore!
WOLVERINE ORIGINS #46
Written by DANIEL WAY
Penciled by SCOT EATON
“RECKONING,” PROLOGUE: His final confrontation with Romulus on the horizon, Wolverine reaches out to a friend to help him put to rest one of the greatest tragedies of his long, long life—the death of Mariko Yashida. Guest-starring Nightcrawler.
WOLVERINE: MR. X
Written by FRANK TIERI
Penciled by PACO DIAZ LUQUE
Mr. X is back for a rematch and revenge on the only man who’s ever beaten him: Wolverine! Find out everything you never knew about one of the most dangerous psychopaths in the Marvel Universe. The first time these two met, Wolverine barely escaped with his life, and this time…well, one thing’s for sure, you’ll never see the end coming but you’ll love how you got there!
X-FORCE #25
Written by CHRISTOPHER YOST & CRAIG KYLE
Pencils & Cover by CLAYTON CRAIN
NECROSHA ENDS HERE! Everything Destiny foretold has come true. The Black Queen has become the Dark Goddess, but X-Force’s mission stands…KILL HER. But how do you fight a god with claws, knives and guns? And how many members will X-Force lose before the fight is over? PART SIX (of SIX)
ASTONISHING X-MEN #35
Written by WARREN ELLIS
Pencils & Cover by PHIL JIMENEZ
“eXogenetic” Conclusion! After wading through a swarm of bio-mechanically engineered monstrosities modeled after some of their fiercest foes, the X-Men finally come face to face with the man responsible. He’s given his life to designing the death of the mutant race and with the X-Men at his doorstep, he’s preparing to unleash one more genetic nightmare upon the world before his time runs out.
UNCANNY X-MEN #522
Written by MATT FRACTION
Pencils by WHILCE PORTACIO
She’s been gone for a long time, but she’s coming back. This isn’t a hoax. This isn’t a joke. CLASSIFIED is back in this over-sized special issue of UNCANNY X-MEN.
X-MEN: SECOND COMING
Written by CHRISTOPHER YOST & CRAIG KYLE
Pencils & Variant Cover by DAVID FINCH
MANY WILL BE WOUNDED. SEVERAL WILL DIE: The climax of four years of X-Men stories is the X-Event of 2010! What started in HOUSE OF M with the Decimation of mutantkind and erupted with the first new mutant birth in MESSIAH COMPLEX finishes here. In the epic crossover SECOND COMING, Cyclops’ faith pays off when Cable returns to the present with Hope, the girl he believes to be the mutant messiah. But will she be the savior or destroyer of mutantkind? We may never know, as she is the target of an initiative for mutant eradication unlike anything they X-Men have ever experienced. Many will be wounded. Several will die. Is Hope worth it?
SIEGE #3 (of 4)
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Pencils & Cover by OLIVIER COIPEL
THE MARVEL BLOCKBUSTER OF THE YEAR!! In the halls of Asgard and on the streets of small town America the entire Universe is gripped in a the greatest battle ever seen: SIEGE!! Lives have been lost! Lines have been drawn! And the battle for Asgard is in full force. The moment for revelations and life-changing moves is here, and for some, this will be the last choice they ever make in this world. What happens next is so epic, so historic, that it changes the entire dynamic of the Marvel Universe. You’re gonna want to be there for this one…trust us.
DARK WOLVERINE #84
Written by MARJORIE LIU & DANIEL WAY
Penciled by GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI
SIEGE BLOCKBUSTER TIE-IN!! PART 2 OF 3: Daken has been given glimpses of the life he could have—as well as the lives he might destroy—and the time for a choice is finally at hand. Will he become a force for good…or reign as a king in Hell?
X-23 #1
Written by MARJORIE LIU
Pencils and cover by ALINA URSOV
X-23 has spent her short life being used by those in power, from the military to the X-Men. But when she is forced to confront a being who can control her life with nothing but a thought, will X-23 finally learn how to fight — not for others, but herself? Guest-starring NYX!
X-FACTOR FOREVER #1 (!?!)
Written by LOUISE SIMONSON
Pencils & Cover by DAN PANOSIAN
THEY’RE BACK! Once they were Xavier’s young charges: mutant teens who bore the responsibility of protecting a world that hated them. But time has hardened these five X-Men, forcing them to reimagine their mission and purpose. And now, the original dream-team returns to fight the one threat that’s haunted them since the day they took on the X-Factor name. Join legendary X-scribe Louise Simonson as she reunites with the title and characters she made famous for an epic in the FOREVER tradition!
For the complete list of Marvel’s solicitations, visit ComicBookResources.com (details)…
As for probable (and possible) Wolverine appearances this week (12/23/09), we have previews of…
–Incredible Hercules #139 (preview): Assault on New Olympus…
–Uncanny X-Men #519 (preview): Wolverine is slated to appear…
–What If Astonishing X-Men (preview): NOT by Whedon or Cassaday…
–Wolverine: Origins #43 (preview): ‘7 the Hard Way’, Part 3…
–Wolverine: Weapon X #8 (details only): Wolverine continues his stay at the Sanitorium…
–X-Men Legacy #231 (preview): Wolverine makes the cover at the very least…
