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Wolverine’s Death Gets a Little Bigger as Marvel Explores “the Logan Legacy”

By | July 11th, 2014
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And you thought it was just a month-long event.

Announced at Marvel.com, the “Death of Wolverine” mini that has a new issue out every week in September is only the beginning of Marvel’s celebration of the death of one of their main characters. Following this will be three months of potentially maudlin revelry in “The Logan Legacy,” a seven part series featuring a wide variety of creators, many of whom are coming to Marvel for the first time out of the Bat-Office at DC (where Mike Marts used to work) and all of whom focus on specific characters in Logan’s life and how his death effects them. Charles Soule, writer of “The Death of Wolverine,” will write the first and last issues of the book.

Here’s the breakdown of books:

October 2014

DEATH OF WOLVERINE: THE LOGAN LEGACY #1 (OF 7)
Written by Charles Soule; Penciled by Oliver Nome; Cover by Oliver Nome

DEATH OF WOLVERINE: THE LOGAN LEGACY #2 (OF 7)
Featuring X-23!
Written by Tim Seeley; Penciled by Ariela Kristantina; Cover by Ariela Kristantina

DEATH OF WOLVERINE: THE LOGAN LEGACY #3 (OF 7)
Featuring Sabretooth!
Written by Kyle Higgins; Penciled by Jonathan Marks; Cover by Jonathan Marks

November 2014

DEATH OF WOLVERINE: THE LOGAN LEGACY #4 (OF 7)
Featuring Lady Deathstrike!
Written by Marguerite Bennett; Penciled by Juan Doe; Cover by Juan Doe

DEATH OF WOLVERINE: THE LOGAN LEGACY #5 (OF 7)
Featuring Daken!
Written by Ray Fawkes; Penciled by Elia Bonetti; Cover by Gerardo Sandoval

December 2014

DEATH OF WOLVERINE: THE LOGAN LEGACY #6 (OF 7)
Featuring Mystique!
Written by James Tynion IV; Penciled by Andy Clarke; Cover by Alex Garner

DEATH OF WOLVERINE: THE LOGAN LEGACY #7 (OF 7)
Written by Charles Soule; Penciled by Peter Nguyen

Charles Soule and editor Mike Marts have apparently worked with all of the writers of the project, so that while everything will move towards a unified whole each will still retain the individuality of their particular creative teams. The “Death of Wolverine” series is referred to as “an inciting event,” so one could imagine that this series that explores the remnants Logan leaves behind will build towards something else.

So I suppose that means he’s coming back in January 2015, then?

I’m kidding, of course. Logan’s dead. No way he’s coming back from that!

“The Death of Wolverine: The Logan Legacy” #1 launches in October.

Matthew Meylikhov

Once upon a time, Matthew Meylikhov became the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Multiversity Comics, where he was known for his beard and fondness for cats. Then he became only one of those things. Now, if you listen really carefully at night, you may still hear from whispers on the wind a faint voice saying, "X-Men Origins: Wolverine is not as bad as everyone says it issss."

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