But we’re past the point of establishing the concept now, and instead it just feels like a repeat of What If? syndrome, where characters charge into situations they’d normally take in stride, and die en masse like poisoned lemmings. The Krakoan resurrection set-up can easily tempt writers into killing off characters, because it no longer has consequences. The first arc immediately rubs me up the wrong way by having Wolverine kill off the rest of X-Force. It also carries over some of X-Force‘s flaws. And certainly the tone is very similar, though this book does benefit from being able to keep its focus on a single character. If nothing else, it helps to keep things straight between Wolverine’s solo and team books. The team show up in the first arc the Russian super soldiers for issue #3 turn up again in X-Force and when we get to “X of Swords”, we’ll see the Wolverine chapter running through both books as if they were indistinguishable. The revived Wolverine solo title turns out to be a companion book to Benjamin Percy’s X-Force. Issues #4-5 & issue #1 backup by Benjamin Percy, Viktor Bogdanovic & Matthew Wilson Issues #1-3 by Benjamin Percy, Adam Kubert & Frank Martin
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