Logan wants some time to think to himself and decides to run through the bit of wilderness that New York City has to offer, Central Park. He quickly comes to the Central Park Zoo and notices, coincidentally, an injured wolverine. This symbolizes Logan's own urges of resorting to animal like behavior, and the pain he feels from not knowing who he really is or where he actually comes from. To give a face to this pain, is a freaky guy named Linus, who killed a zookeeper and took his uniform just so he could hurt the animals at his leisure. Linus pulls a big knife on Logan, who allows himself to be stabbed through the hand, then Linus pulls gun. No hesitation from Logan, as he pops his claws, jamming the barrel and making the gun explode in Linus' hand. Logan then pulls out the knife, cuts open the wolverine's cage and lets it loose on a now defenseless Linus.
Bad ass quote: "Better not slow down, Linus...wolverines ain't nothin' if they ain't persistent." As a tattered and battered walks away, watching a wolverine chase down the weirdo.
The issue ends with a setup for the Battle Royale. Deathstrike arrives in the city reading a newspaper with a story about Ronald Parvenue and his new exhibit, The Hunter in Darkness! She orders her driver to take her to Parvenue's office and tosses the paper out the window and off the bridge. The papers scatter and hit the water just in time for bubbles to glub, glub to the surface. Suddenly, Sabretooth's face emerges and he gasps for air!
I always skip issue 44. It's a one shot, with a different artist and a weird bad guy. Wolverine's on a cruise or something, it has nothing to do with the main story arch, so I'm skipping it here too.
#45 is where's it at! What's at? THIS is at! ihavenoideawhatijustsaid...
WOW! CLAWS OVER TIMES SQUARE!!! This issue is so much fun! Logan is back in his Wolverine costume and teamed up with Jubilee. They're scouting out Time's Square because Ronald Parvenue has announced a live sneak peek at The Hunter in Darkness, and Wolverine will NOT stand for a wild creature being caged! Again, this is a metaphor for what Logan is dealing with psychologically. We'll see more of this soon, but I'll get into that tomorrow!
Anyway, Wolverine takes the bait and tries to free the Hunter, but Deathstrike has been waiting in the helicopter carrying the Hunter's cage over Time's Square; AND Sabretooth is hiding in the crowd, having tracked Deathstrike's scent knowing she would lead him to Wolverine (who he still believes is his son).
The fight breaks out on top of the Hunter's cage!
The scuffle is too much for the cage to handle in mid-air and so it swings and crashes into a water tower on top of a building. The 3 combatants slowly get to their feet and turn as they hear a low growl. THE HUNTER IN DARKNESS IS LOOSE!
#46 starts with this now 4-way fight just before the Hunter enters. Wolverine is taking a hell of a beating, and so any help would be great, however he doesn't know who The Hunter is gonna go after. It turns out that The Hunter recognizes Wolverine's scent from their first encounter that you would read about back in issue 34! He remembers and sees Wolverine as a friend, attacking Deathstrike and Sabretooth, giving Wolverine a few moments to let his healing factor kick in.
Anyway, the fight gets broken up as a sniper takes hits Deathstrike, Sabretooth, and Wolverine with poisoned bullets; causing Wolverine to have some weird flashbacks involving a security guard from the Weapon X Project, Sabretooth, strange looking vines, and weird spikes sticking out of both him and Sabretooth.
That pretty much ends the issue, with the resolution being Deathstrike getting knocked off the building by a sniper shot, landing in a dumpster and getting picked up by Ronald Parvenue; Sabretooth getting knocked out by Wolverine and then disappearing while him and Jubilee are distracted with the sniper; and The Hunter is shown back in the sewers, feasting on albino alligators.
Tomorrow we get into my very favorite comics, the very issues that made Wolverine my favorite comic book character! I can't wait to re-read the issues and write about them! See you tomorrow!
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