It probably doesn’t help that the second solo series of the new Dawn of X is for another Character-Who-Saw-X-Treme-Popularity-in-the-’90s, Cable.

There are many X-Men fans who remember the days when Marvel comics wielded Wolverine’s popularity to bolster the sales of any X-book editors could shoe-horn him into, and even more who watched the X-Men movie franchise become increasingly Wolverine-centric as time went on.

Wolverine is the first solo series of the post-Krakoa X-Men titles, which feels like a conservative choice in a time when the mutant stats quo is in such flux. As the official solicit text for the issue says “With his family all together and safe, Wolverine has everything he ever wanted … and everything to lose.” Why is the standalone series happening now? This first arc seems to be about figuring out how to fit stories about Wolverine - one of the most tragic, traumatized, and violent X-Men - into the new paradise of Krakoa. X-Men #1 might have solved the longest-running mutant love triangle What’s Wolverine #1 about? Wolverine #1 also has a lengthy backup story from Percy and artist Viktor Bogdanovic, who’s worked on quite a few DC Comics titles of the past few years, including Action Comics, New Super-Man, and The Silencer. He’s seen the character through a lot of big changes, including the time Magneto ripped out Logan’s adamantium, so long-time Wolverine fans should feel in good hands with him.

Kubert, meanwhile, is among the best known draftsmen in superhero comics today, and his first work at Marvel was in 1993’s Wolverine series. And this doesn’t really have bearing on his writing, but the man’s natural speaking voice sounds like someone auditioning for the role of Sabretooth.

Percy is a novelist and comics writer whose first project for Marvel was writing the Wolverine: The Long Night podcast, and he joined the X-books formally with the first wave of Dawn of X titles, writing X-Force. Writer Benjamin Percy and artist Adam Kubert are a great team for a Wolverine book. That’s the question that Benjamin Percy and Andy Kubert plan to answer with their new Wolverine series, which kicks off today with Wolverine #1. The X-Men have never been the same, and you might wonder if there’s even a place for the snarling animal inside Logan in the current Krakoan utopia.

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