![]() Only this time, Logan has been seemingly tasked with protecting an endangered Xavier throughout time. The inciting event in X Lives of Wolverine #1 is very much in the vein of Days of Future Past, Age of Ultron, or any of the myriad Wolverine time travel stories that have been written over the years. ![]() This one reads like a decompressed storyline from the usual X-Force ongoing, complete with that book’s same creative team, writer Benjamin Percy and artist Joshua Cassara. If this first issue is any indication, it’s going to be the latter. ![]() Though grand in evocative concept and iconography, however, it remains to be seen if this new Wolverine-centric series will set a brand new course for the X-line, or just be a self-contained time travel romp centered around the X-Men’s safest (at least sales-wise) character. With this structure, one is immediately reminded of the grand genesis of Hickman’s run with House of X/Powers of X. ![]() This is a weekly series consisting of two alternating titles that are telling one big story. As part of this next era’s opening salvo, comes the twin series X Lives/X Deaths of Wolverine, beginning this week with X Lives of Wolverine #1. With the revelatory wrap-up of writer Jonathan Hickman’s run earlier this month in Inferno #4, the line seems to be adjusting accordingly, moving into a next era that so far looks a lot like the previous era but just more. ![]() By Benjamin Morin - It’s a time of change for the X-line. ![]()
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