It might seem like I’ve been piling on a hefty dose of Wolverine over the past week, which I have, but I just can’t help it. Wolverine #63 hit the shelves yesterday and I’ve been itching to get my hands on it. If you’ve been following this site for a while, you know that I recently dipped my foot into the waters of the X-Men, more specifically Wolverine’s solo series currently being written by Jason Aaron and penciled by, one of my favorites, Ron Garney. The anticipation is killing me here.

When we last saw Wolverine, he was wandering the barren deserts of Afghanistan in search of Mystique. This mission, given to him by Cyclops at the end of Messiah Complex, was proving to be much harder than originally thought. Wolverine kills an innocent civilian he’s convinced is Mystique and then wanders into a church that is then blown up by Mystique from the outside. At the issue’s conclusion, Wolverine comes face to face with her only to be confronted by some of the locals regarding his killing of the villager earlier in the issue. When we join Wolverine in the opening pages of issue #63, he’s been ripped to shreds by the hail of gunfire he received last issue and is thrown into a pit, left to die.

Apparently, the locals have no idea who Wolverine is or what he’s capable of.

If you’re like me and have to wait an extra day to get your comics, why not check out the preview that Marvel has on their site including several demo pages of the comic that will be hitting store shelves later this afternoon. As I said in my previous Wolverine related rant, if this 4-part series pans out the way it looks like it will, Wolverine will be a surefire addition to my pull list.