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X-ual Healing: Reign of the Wolverines Continues in Weapon Lost #3

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HUNT FOR WOLVERINE: Weapon Lost #3 (of 4)
CHARLES SOULE (W) • MATTEO BUFFAGNI (A)
COVER BY GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI
Variant cover by DECLAN SHALVEY
FRESH BLOOD IN THE WILDS OF CANADA!
• Deep in Logan's home country, Daredevil and his investigative team have tracked the most recent reports of his appearances…straight to the tips of his still bloody claws!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99

Weapon Lost #3 picks up in Canada where last issue left off, with Cypher the victim of what Wolverine does best: stabbing. Inhuman detective Frank McGee takes Cypher to the Skycharger ship, where the Inhuman medical technology can save his life. But Wolverine is waiting for him at the ship. Except, it's not the real Wolverine, it's Albert, the cyborg Wolverine. Daredevil gives us something so elusive in comics these days: a character's backstory.

Daredevil uses his heightened senses to detect a weak spot on Albert's upper back. He engages Albert hand-to-hand as Frank and Misty shoot for the weak spot. It works. Cypher leaves the medical bay to blast Albert with an extra big fun for good measure.

Back on the Skycharger, headed for the States, Frank and Misty make out, but they're interrupted by a c***-blocking Cypher, who stole a phone from one of the dead rangers last issue to feed his internet addiction. He also happened to check out one of the previous leads the team had investigated, who said he made up his Wolverine story for attention on social media. Now, the guy had vanished. The team investigates at his apartment to find the man dead and a bomb waiting for them. It blows up as the issue ends.

The Bottom Line

We've been pretty hard on Weapon Lost for being the most useless mini-series in a collection of useless mini-series, but the Albert appearance redeemed the book somewhat. Bonus points for providing backstory for Albert, and for Misty, who reveals a little more about why she doesn't want to be a cop anymore, as referenced in the first issue. There's still no reason any of these Hunt for Wolverine minis needed to exist, with the actual Return of Wolverine series not happening until they end, but at least the action is picking up here as we head into the final issue.

Further Reading

Albert (and Elsie Dee) were created by the great Larry Hama and Marc Silvestri in Wolverine's first ongoing series, first appearing in Wolverine #37. Sadly, that issue is part of a 10-issue chunk missing from Marvel Unlimited, so you'll need to track down the issues in print if you want to read Albert and Elsie Dee's story.

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