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Jonathan Hickman And Greg Capullo On Wolverine: Revenge From Marvel

That's how you get Greg Capullo to come to Marvel. Tell him he is going to draw a Wolverine five-issue comic written by Jonathan Hickman.

That's how you persuade Greg Capullo to come to Marvel Comics. Tell him he is going to draw a Wolverine five-issue comic book written by Jonathan Hickman. Wolverine: Revenge will be published by Marvel Comics from the 21st of August. And will probably outsell everything in the direct market.

Polygon has the PR, and Greg tells them "I've finally returned home to Marvel and I'm ready to raise some Hell," Capullo told Polygon via email. "And, who better to do that with than the Hitman Hickman? To celebrate, Marvel has removed the fences and let us off our leash so that we can bring the most vicious and punishing Wolverine story possible to the fans this summer. I hope they're prepared… Well, obviously it's such a privilege to get to work with a legend like Greg. When we first talked about the project, our number one concern was taking the readers on a high-octane, no-hold-barred Wolverine story that was a proper celebration of both the character and Greg returning to Marvel. And like he said, the bosses cut us loose and the result is an absolutely wild book. Honestly can't wait for everyone to get to check it out."

Wolverine: Revenge will "pit WOLVERINE against a cadre of foes who will turn his world upside down! He's been beaten! He's been bloodied! And LOGAN only has one thought on his mind: REVENGE!" Also Wolverine: Revenge #1 will also be published in a "red band" edition, containing some pages not included in the regular edition, with "elevated violence you won't see anywhere else!"

Polygon says that the preview pages from the first issue show Logan hunting alongside the Zebra People of the Savage Land and battling a dinosaur, but BLeeding Cool disagreem, they look far more like the Children Of The Sun, as created by Jonathan Hickman and Adam Kubert, from one of Ex Nihilo's Origin Bombs that hit the Fallen Heights, of the Savage Land in his attempt to evolve Earth, and were raised by Hyperion when he visited the Savage Land. The children generate their own internalized energy source and can be harnessed as living batteries…

In January 2023, Greg Capullo posted his drawing of Wolverine to Twitter and Instagram saying "Let the gossip begin." And Bleeding Cool was always happy to do as we are asked…

Back in 2011, Greg Capullo was given the choice to draw Wolverine at Marvel or to draw Batman at DC Comics. He chose DC Comics and began a four-year run on Batman with Scott Snyder, as well as spinning off into Metal and Death Metal.  He is, of course, still drawing Creech III, and posting pages of that to Instagram as well.  In January 2024, Bleeding Cool shared a first look at a first panel from Greg Capullo's decades-long return to Marvel Comics. There was little to identify in it.

But a full finished pencilled page posted to Instagram said "After decades away, I'm back at Marvel. Today I drew my first page. Sadly, this is the only page that I'll be able to share until this project is formally announced. Hope you dig it."

A now-deleted version of this post revealed that this page was labelled as coming from an upcoming issue of Wolverine. In February, Greg Capullo pushed back on it being Wolverine, saying: "Don't believe everything you hear"

And followed up with "Fury in charge", with a possible SHIELD Black Widow, Dum Dum Duggan and other Commandos, just hanging around waiting for something to happen.

He continued to post on Instagram, "This story is HUGE!  Having a f'king blast working at Marvel! All my favorite characters and a story that I can't wait for you guys to see! Are we having fun yet? Yes. Yes we are" As for his OG Nick Fury, "First double page spread of the year is done. One panel teaser " and as for Dum Dum Duggan, "Love drawing these kind of characters-more so than heroes!"

And plenty more classic Captain America, Nick Fury and SHIELD.

And there was gossip that, indeed, Greg Capullo's work was going to be the new Wolverine series for X-Men From The Ashes, possibly with Saladin Ahmed. However, to echo Greg Capullo's earlier "don't believe everything you hear", Tom Brevoort has set the record straight on his Substack. "I'm not going to be announcing anything before we're ready. But I will tell you definitively that Greg isn't drawing the regular WOLVERINE series." So it's a mini-series instead… and keeps Jonathan Hickman in the world of X as well.

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