Return of Wolverine

Return of Wolverine
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Format	Limited series
Publication date	September 2018
Main character(s)	Wolverine Soteira
Creative team
Written by	Charles Soule
Penciller(s)	Steve McNiven

Return of Wolverine is a comic book miniseries published by Marvel Comics. This miniseries will follow up on the events that transpired in the "Death of Wolverine" and "Hunt for Wolverine" storylines and explain how Wolverine returned from the dead.

Premise

As a follow-up to the "Hunt for Wolverine" storyline, Marvel released this mini-series that will be preceded by a new "Wolverine" comic series..

Plot

Our story begins with Wolverine in agony, kneeling in a pool of blood as his claws glow red hot. He is surrounded by dead soldiers as well as a living caged smilodon in the background. He gives water to Bernard Delacroix, a wounded scientist for Soteira brought into their service to work on their de-extinction project. He is shocked to see Wolverine alive and begs to be released from the will of Soteira by having Wolverine kill him with his claws. Suddenly, a grenade rolls into the laboratory killing Bernard and freeing the Smilodon who attacks Wolverine, triggering a brief memory of Kitty Pryde. The smilodon is then gored by a woolly mammoth that was also released in the explosion as Wolverine sees a variety of past memories of himself advising him to go after Soteira before they harm everyone else. Hearing machine gun fire that has killed the woolly mammoth at the cost of it's attackers at the outside entrance, Wolverine rides a motorcycle down to a work camp on the shore that is soon engulfed in flames as evacuations orders are announced over the PA system. He witnesses a sniper shooting a fleeing scientist. Upon returning fire on the sniper, the masked soldier is revealed to be White Sky's Omega Red clone who shoots out the front tire of Wolverine's motorcycle. Thrown from the wreck and hitting his head on a rock, he eventually loses consciousness and dreams about Soteira's leader Persephone who guides him through a prison block of incarcerated past memories of himself, enemies, and comrades. She denies his allegations of being evil and claims to have brought him back to life as she kisses him. Wolverine is wakened by a worker from the camp's canteen named Ana who recognizes him as a famous superhero and pleads for his help to rescue her son Perren who has been ordered into custody by one of the soldiers. While realizing that he has a healing factor, there is one wound on his right side that hasn't healed. Ana states that the location he's in is Soteira's research facility where they have collected scientists from all over to help with their work. As Ana staples his wound, Wolverine voices a theory that Ana's son might be used as an incubator of sorts, as she tells him that he was injected with something from their labs before it was destroyed. As Wolverine still has fragmented memories even unable to recognize his own name, Ana recalls a story she heard about him where a man in machine gun armor attacked a hospital as Wolverine selflessly fought to stop him, without regard to his own safety. As Wolverine remembers his name upon unlocking this memory, he hears Ana's claim that Persephone is "the devil" and Soteira's architect. Now suited in one of Soteira's black uniforms, Wolverine decides that it's time to meet Persephone.

Somewhere on the ocean, Wolverine and Ana are on a speedboat pursing a boat filled with Soteira operatives. He asks Ana what she means about Persephone having a city to which she says that they are testing something there. Wolverine states that Soteira's Killteam injected her son with something as they don't see him on the deck of the boat. Omega Red and another operative see Wolverine coming and jump into the water to ambush them. Ana comments that a famous singer once came to the Soteira facility where Wolverine met him while other scientists remained with their equipment. Most of the scientists left in big trucks while the support staff remained to wait for the Killteam. As their speedboat is attacked by Omega Red and the other operative, Ana fired a harpoon gun at Omega Red. Wolverine takes on an opponent who has the same claws as Daken until the fight causes rips in his outfit enough to expose his usual tattoos. As they fight, Wolverine has a vision of Daken in a cell as he sees a scarred Wolverine quoting "out." As the scarred Wolverine shouts "OUT," Wolverine's claws become hot red and he uses the fuel from the fuel line he cut to help burn Daken enough to throw him into the ocean. When Wolverine nearly slashes Ana, he has a vision of a scarred Wolverine quoting "No." The vision of the scarred Wolverine quotes "Soon bub, soon." Wolverine commented that when his claws got hot, he appears to not be in control. Despite the fact that Soteira's boat got away, Wolverine still has there scent. They arrive at an island where half of it is a city. Meanwhile at the Xavier Institute for Mutant Education and Outreach, Jean Grey is using Cerebro where she states to Kitty Pride that she just found Wolverine.