We here at Multiversity get pretty excited about the holidays, and this year we’re sharing that excitement with the rest of you as we celebrate that wonder of wonders: THE HOLIDAY COMIC!
Each day for the next twenty-five days, and in no particular order, we’ll be featuring one yuletide yarn set to the tune of tidings of comfort and joy, and today we head out for some last minute holiday shopping with Wolverine #49!
Meet you after the jump!
Day #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14
Who Did It? Messieurs Robert Williams and Laurence Campbell are the duo behind this title, with inks by Kris Justice, colors by Paul Mounts and Randy Gentile providing letters.
What Is It About? In a short bout of last minute Christmas shopping for his friend Kitty Pryde (who is, for the record, Jewish), Logan finds himself in popular retail chain Lacy’s in order to pick out a gift for one of his best friends. However, as luck would have it, that’s the exact time that a new the Black Christmess choose to take wealthy socialite Toulouse Lexington hostage and strapping a bomb to her.
Locking all the doors and holding the entire department store hostage, the mischievous Cave and his gang of elves and mall Santas enact a devious plot to not only blow up Lacy’s but get away with the girl before the cops can ruin everything, thus allowing them to succeed in their hostage situation. If only they knew that X-Men/New Avenger Wolverine was in the store, huh?
Of course, it doesn’t play out as you think it might. While Cave makes speeches to all the capitalist pigs in the store and Wolverine makes a valiant attempt to save the girl, Cave still manages to escape with Toulouse by dressing up as mall Santas and integrating themselves into the hostage crowd before letting everyone loose.
While Cave almost makes it away, Wolverine manages to track him and his cohorts due to the perfume Toulouse was wearing (or rather, was sprayed with a sample of by an employee of Lacy’s earlier in the comic). Since Cave is a bastard, though, he activates the bomb, and Wolverine has 10 seconds to save Toulouse, which he does by cutting the bomb off her and holding it to his stomach.
Merry Christmas, indeed.
How Holiday Friendly Is It? Well, the comic largely features such holiday friendly bits of dialogue such as this:
as well as Santa-friendly bits such as this:
so it’s not exactly akin to the Island of Misfit Toys.
Then again, this is Rob Williams’ first comic for Marvel. For those unaware, Williams now churns out such excellent monthly titles as Daken and Ghost Rider (which you should go buy immediately), and is one of our favorite writers here at Multiversity. So for that alone, that makes Wolverine #49 holiday friendly.
Plus, what do you expect from a Christmas comic starring Wolverine? Egg nog? Think again, bub.
